> There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones.
I know of some affluent high-schoolers who seem to consider it prestigious if you can show off a prerelease iOS on your phone.
Yeah I had a flatmate who was a complete Apple fanatic and would torrent beta-versions of all their software, so he always had the cutting edge revision of OSX and iOS, even though he was not very technically inclined. He just liked having the newest and latest.
Re:Apple Dev Center outage
by peterkelly on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:03PM
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If you're a non-developer and running a beta OS, you should know what you're getting into.
At the same time, I do feel sorry for devs getting bad reviews because of compatibility issues. I haven't had any myself, but it's probably only a matter of time.
I'd think that Apple would prevent someone using a beta OS from ranking apps. Their disclaimer says to run it on equipment dedicated for testing. That would preclude everyday apps, and the need to leave ratings.
Does the App Store block reviews from beta OS users? Maybe what needs to happen is if you load a beta OS on a device, it should block reviews from any Apple IDs that were associated with that device until the OS is generally available.
After all, they do warn you that you should never install a beta OS on your daily use device and they are for development purposes only.
No, they don't, and I'm among those who have received negative reviews from people running beta releases in the past. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it (flagging a review has never had any success for me).
Stories of unjustified bad reviews being left by users like these due to poor behavior on iOS 7 are really common in the community.