Re: ADC Select Membership
Re: ADC Select Membership
- Subject: Re: ADC Select Membership
- From: Scott Ellsworth <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:20:02 -0700
On Apr 26, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Shaun Wexler wrote:
On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:35 PM, Mark Munz wrote:
Truthfully, I've been very disappointed in Apple's seeding
process. As a small developer who is paying $500, I feel totally
left in the dark regarding seeds, in particular Tiger.
I have felt pretty well taken care of during the Tiger development
cycle. Seeds were plentiful, and DTS/devbugs feedback was quite good.
Where I feel they really fell down completely was at release time.
And as it is, it looks like the GM is not the last seed we have
(reports from people receiving Tiger already say it is 8a428),
with no clues as to the differences.
Yep - hard to test your software against a version you never got.
Heck, I have an rsync bug that rather matters to me, which may or may
not have been fixed. Nobody is talking.
I hold some of the same sentiments. We certainly understand
Apple's desire to prevent illegal distribution of major GM versions
by those who'd break their NDA. Seeded developers should have
received it at least a couple days ahead of the retailers!!!
Agreed - at the least, I should have had a copy on my doorstep on the
29th along with everyone else.
[...] I really feel disregarded by Apple when Joe-blow can order
from Amazon or even the Apple Store and have a newer build than I
have access to as a developer, which is especially relevant
considering recent rdar's I filed. I likely have users running my
app on a version of the OS which I can't even test against (unless
I'd pre-ordered a retail version also, reducing my ADC benefit).
~Nice. :(
Agreed - or I could have downloaded a bittorrent stolen copy, perhaps
with trojans pre-installed. As it is, I am discouraging my customers
and clients from upgrading to Tiger until I can test my stuff with
it. I do not want to do that, since I have found it quite righteous
for the last few months, but I _can't_ put them at that risk.
I realize Cocoa-dev is not the best place for this rant. Any
suggestions for a feedback channel to send it towards that is read?
I'm really questioning the value of the membership these days.
And yes, I'm lodging a complaint with ADC on this.
There are ups and downs from year to year, but altogether the
benefits far exceed the expense.
I do agree - while I just said above that I was very unhappy, I am
unhappy specifically with the Tiger rollout. The rest of the
membership seems quite valuable. Realistically, we are not going to
see another rollout like this until late 2006 or early 2007, so on
the balance, I would still recommend coughing up the cash.
Scott
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