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bob_ninja
Altough it got massivly forgotten even by many companies, a long time ago, the definition of beta version was "limited user group", that is, alpha was "in house testing onyl", "beta testing with limted user group" and then general sale to market. Somewhere on the way many reinterpreted beta as "just not quite ready yet"... I personally a little mournful this original and crystal clear destinction got so forgotten by almost everyone today. One can argue about this point of limited user group, as its even unusual today. But one can argue is that when you deliberatly hand out bad or not yet ready software without warning, you are doing something wrong. And iRex is currently doing this wrong with the 1000.
About the battery thing I totally agree. I consider it a very bad move from a lot of industry to make devices with unexchangeable batteries. Its our whole economy today, we do no longer build things to last, companies just want the devices to fall apart after 2-4 years, so people buy new, altough they wouldn't really need to.
Last edited by axel77; 10-18-2008 at 12:57 PM.
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