Yes, I think you are right.
I'm not going to wade through 11 pages to see if anyone's already answered this - but it's not profiles in general that are being done away with, it's just dev profiles that are currently used to give access to dev betas. No impact on corporate profiles - just ambiguous wording in the article.
A beta program is always about expanding the number of testers with different configurations. The whole reason the public beta program was started was because there was value of additional automatic bug reports generated as well as feedback using feedback assistant by expanding the numbers involved in testing betas releases. While there are lots of people that are simply curious, there are also lots that use the beta program to educate themselves about using the newest OS's, along with understanding the risks and being able to restore hardware to full operation if something unexpected happens.
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Obviously just buy 1 of every device apple sells for testing purposes only /s
There could be a couple of easy solutions, a one time token fee for early access to WWDC seeds, that or simply move up the release to pubic beta testers with warnings that testers shouldn't use the earliest versions unless you are prepared for risks involved and know how to recovery full hardware operation beforehand.
Mmm.. I created a separate AppleID to use as my Dev ID for security reasons.
To add to your comment, thanks to those 'dumb' users many of us still have jobs, because if they had the 'knowledge' they wouldn't be calling us.Additional comment:
As you know Apple seeds to devs, special invites, and public beta program. Thinking in the terms of "customers" along the lines of dumb and useless isn't always the case. There is a wide variety of educated people out there that aren't software developers that beta test. This really shouldn't be a closed beta then it's released only to find obvious bugs with a pubic release.
You can install XCode and start developing absolutely free, but if you want to deploy the app to the Store or a device, you need to pay,
Some people may have ignored or simply forgot how much Microsoft used to charge for Visual Studio and the MSDN Subscription.
Exactly. I'm mainly in WordPress plugins (for better or worse), you can either sell your stuff via one of many third parties - for ridiculous fees - or set up your own Easy Digital Downloads store with Stripe, PayPal etc. Just the EDD license goes over $1k+ per year if you want to have software licensing, recurring payments etc. Gets cheaper if you spread it over multiple shops/brands you own.
The fact they went out of their way to associated it with iOS 17. More web clicks.
Developer beta is for developers, i don't understand the complain here.
I didn’t mean you literally have to. I didn’t even think I was replying to you, but another person who implied they watch them.
You do know they are usably the same exact build.
It’s to help pay for various Apple services, such as tech support and the creation and maintenance of developer tools like Xcode and its myriad of utilities. All big organizations charge. I was a developer with an MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscription for over a decade, and it cost well over $1000 per year. Microsoft had several tiers of developer accounts granting various levels of support and access to tools and OS’es. MS charged that much and they didn’t even have an app store at the time. Later versions of Visual Studio, one of the best developer tools I’ve ever used btw, required logging in to a paid account. There’s a community version available to anyone, but it’s a stripped down version. Xcode is free for anyone, but the more advanced tools require a developer account to access.
DON'T UPGRADE! Every version since 13 has been worse. I STUPIDLY took my iPad to 15, and the interface is Hell. The three dots at the top ruin trying to do anything at the top of the screen, and no way to turn them off.
You’d be very surprised. I had the issue with the Ethernet port on the new Mac mini 2023 where I was getting massive packet loss and disconnects. At first I thought it was a hardware failure since I‘d never seen a buggy Ethernet port. Before returning it, I checked the web to see if others had the same problem. Lo and behold, there was an Apple support forum chock full of users with the same problem and a workaround: set Network hardware to manual configuration and toggle off the AVB/EAV setting (a QoS protocol for handling AV/MIDI gear). Being it was a software bug, I didn’t have to return the computer and just did the workaround, figuring Apple would fix it in the next patch.
Thats the point! You don't. DEVELOPER BETAS are for devs. I really don't get the whole discussion here. Dev betas are for devices that serve no other purpose than testing - no personal data, banking apps etc.
