At Life360, we've started really seriously using the beta programs for both iOS and Android, and I've got to say that the iOS experience is terrible in comparis

At Life360, we've started really seriously using the beta programs for both iOS and Android, and I've got to say that the iOS experience is terrible in comparison to Android. In Android, our beta users download the app from the Play Store just like normal. The app automatically updates and for them, performs basically exactly like a normal app. On iOS, every update has to be a manual intervention for a beta user. Look, the whole point of our beta community is to get early testing on new code. If half or more of the community put off updating for a few days because it's an annoying process, that's the exact opposite of useful. And it's worse than that -- I have no doubt that a great many of our beta users are now significantly behind our normal production users, because normal production users get automatic updates and beta users don't.