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“seems like Windows 8 might have been the biggest beta testing project ever” Gmail, Facebook, iCloud and Siri have way more users than Windows 8 does. The last
by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
“seems like Windows 8 might have been the biggest beta testing project ever”
Gmail, Facebook, iCloud and Siri have way more users than Windows 8 does. The last two are in their entirety beta products. The first two have introduced major changes that didn’t turn out great. Even when Google rolls out a new version of Gmail in phases, it easily covers more users than Windows 8 (which has about 60 million users).
- orf 13y agoLargest doesn't always mean largest user base. I'm sure a lot more money, people and other resources went into Windows 8 than the re-skinning of Gmail.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoDaigoba66 wasn’t talking about the product itself, but the stage of beta testing. How many people it took to program the software has nothing to do with the beta testing effort. If it takes 10,000 programmers to build an app, but afterwards they only let 10 users beta test it, that’s not a big beta testing project. However, if you build an app alone and then have 1 million people beta test it, then that’s a big beta testing project.