Apple, it's time for a block of iOS 5 Beta users from the revision of the annexes

Greg Kumparak — editor of MobileCrunch.com, the mobile industry blog TechCrunch network. Greg writing for TechCrunch network since May 2008. Greg was born in the vicinity of San Jose, California and currently lives in East Bay. ? Read More

Yes, each new ad iOS – very ... bittersweet. We love it, because it means new APIs for us to develop fixes for the things we were around, and, ideally, more people buy the platform we are building for. But then we months get spend slammed bad reviews, all written by people who just don't understand: before the release goes gold, beta specific errors are is not our fault. "— the developer, who asked not to be named.

Last night, our sister site TUAW (this is still a kind of strange to write that) posted by PSA. The message was simple: If you're not a developer, but you ignored warning signs and ' its way into provisional iOS 5 Beta, you need to stop. Why? Because people crushing developers with horribly unfair feedback, sinking their oh so important rankings of errors they couldn't possibly have prepared for.

The overall message was fair enough, but their proposed solution is to tell developers not Disabling download iOS 5 — can never work. But there is a solution (quite simple, actually), which would be: just don't let the people running things review of beta versions of iOS.

You see, not to tell people to download IOS 5 Beta, as the world's most delicious cookies in a jar labeled "AWESOME people only, and then tell your child they can have one if they promise that they indeed are an awesome person. Everyone wanted to put on their awesome shirts and their awesome hat, walking to the Bank handles with the hand extended. And why not? Nobody really checks just how awesome the self-proclaimed awesome people — plus, the definition of "awesome" (read: the definition of "Developer") it is somewhat loose.

It's just the way it works: we as a population, rather self-entitled. When something new becomes available for a small group and other outside this group are aware of it, they will try to find a way to get it (in this case, it usually means buying a developer from someone selling their extra space for profit that.) Apple could theoretically kill this gray market fully open access a beta version of iOS for those who are willing to jump through some hoops and cancel some rights — but this is a post for another day.

It seems there are at least two ways to fix this, one is a bit easier than others:

1) Block people running iOS 5 from consideration any applications they've downloaded on iOS 5 (difficult route): Apple knows what applications you have downloaded — if they didn't, they could not show you the history of all purchases (like they do in later builds of the App Store). Why not discover what users version working, when booting, the store is a bit of information in the database, and then block them to consider the application to the new OS has officially launched for all?

They account for applications that were installed with sync has backups — but while it is not trivial, it seems that this is possible. Apple already detects installed applications for other reasons (for example, replace the "Download" button is grayed out and read "installed")

2) Simply block any iOS 5 from the revision of the annex (easier): just as above, but after the discovery of an iTunes account be running iOS Beta 5 this account temporarily blocked all together, review the application whether the applications were loaded to iOS 5 or not.

This route is a bit clunkier, but it's also a bit simpler to implement and easier on the servers of apples, as it does not require additional call a database for each user for each application. It is also slightly less complicated in terms of privacy, because there are fewer message back to the mothership.

Sound harsh? This is possible. But it comes with the territory: the pre beta not intended for daily use (even for developers, Apple recommends that only the beta version on devices dedicated to testing.) If you are not a developer and would like to tinker, hell, I wouldn't try to stop you: you just have to hold your rants, until it would be wise to do otherwise.

Probably there will be some libel open outcry that Apple somehow blocking freedom of expression — which, of course, is not really here. These reviewers beta hungry jumping on their soap box without any understanding of why things don't work and maliciously affect survival of developers — many of which, like most of us are just some dudes looking to ditch the cubicle and do something cool for life.

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