“Apple has begun a new program, called AppleSeed, to give non-developers access to pre-release versions of Mac OS X. The program aims to collect ‘feedback on the quality and usability’ of Mac OS X ‘in environments that cannot be replicated by Apple’. So far it appears to be quite limited and available only by direct invitation from Apple.”
lol, I thought Halcon memory blocks recreated again in new Appleseed saga, but it’s just some AppleNews
even on April 1st
[edit] I wish they got sued for using propriety name
Edited 2011-04-01 22:59 UTC
It’s not a new program
untill I read your comment I was sure this was a joke, by apple. Man I mis waz, and I didn’t get into apple till 2000
Me too. I believed it was a belated April fool
True but hopefully with a more controlled testing group it will mean that they can have one group on a specific area focusing in on one particular system feature; hopefully that’ll mean that something Apple designs is tested in an environment for which it was designed and they’re able to fine tune it in such a way for it. I wonder whether some of these changes are inline with new data centres being built along with the extension of the Apple campus.
Lion will be an interesting release with many developers so far pretty happy with XCode 4.x. Some of the changes should make debugging code a lot easier and developing a lot quicker over all especially with how LLVM is embedded into XCode 4.x
Edited 2011-04-02 01:50 UTC
I used to determine who got on the NeXT Pre-release Software List.
This is the exact same program. We built the list based upon trying to get as diverse a pool of industry testers as possible, regardless of the size of your company.