Apple, It?s Time To Block iOS 5 Beta Users From Reviewing Apps

"Yeah, each new iOS announcement is very? bittersweet. We love it because it means new APIs for us to build on, bug fixes for things we've had to work around, and, ideally, more people buying the platform we build for. But then we spend months getting slammed by bad reviews, all written by people who just don't understand: until the release goes gold, beta-specific bugs are not our fault." ? A developer who asked to not be named. Last night, our sister site TUAW (it's still sort of weird to write that) wrote a PSA of sorts. The message was simple: if you're not a developer, but you've ignored the warning signs and finagled your way into the pre-release iOS 5 betas, you need to stop. Why? Because people are crushing developers with horribly unfair reviews, sinking their ratings because of bugs they couldn't possibly have prepared for. The overall message was fair enough, but their proposed solution ? telling non-developers to stop downloading iOS 5 ?could never work. But there is a solution (a rather simple one, in fact) that would: just don't let people running iOS betas review things.

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