Frank Jonen is a VFX freelance sup, experience designer,
photographer and writer / director.
A multi-hypenate of non-fixed career.
What is it with developers holding their apps and web services in beta for ages?
Grow some prairie oysters and bloody release the thing after you had it out in the open for a year!
Yes, I do get the user voluntary testing idea because you don’t have a huge QA staff. But guess what, Microsoft has a huge QA staff and what hell load of good has it done to them? More bugs than the population of some European states.
So get on with it guys. Stand by your product. We get that it’ll always have bugs and a bunch of them happen between the screen and the chair as well.
Imagine artists would hold their works in perpetual beta, we’d never get paid! Like Michelangelo painting stick figures around the Sistine Chapel and went “THERE! That’s about the idea. Some day it’ll be great but for now let’s just put a ‘beta’ sticker on the cross”. Even with the accent of a Brooklyn plumber that wouldn’t have gone over well.
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