{"id":36816,"date":"2018-07-31T22:58:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T22:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/07\/31\/over-4-million-people-participate-in-apples-software-beta-programs"},"modified":"2018-07-31T22:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T22:58:26","slug":"over-4-million-people-participate-in-apples-software-beta-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/over-4-million-people-participate-in-apples-software-beta-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 4 million people participate in Apple&#8217;s software beta programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- font size selector, BEGIN --> <span class=\"cfix\">\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"gray small byline\"> By <a href=\"mailto:stephen@appleinsider.com\">Stephen Silver<\/a> <br \/><span class=\"gray\">Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 03:58 pm PT (06:58 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><span class=\"article-leader\">Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals that an extraordinarily large number of people are taking part in the company&#8217;s beta program, which covers early versions of iOS, macOS and the company&#8217;s other major operating systems. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/over-4-million-people-participate-in-apples-software-beta-programs.jpg\" alt=\"Apple WWDC 2018\" height=\"429\" class=\"lazy\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/over-4-million-people-participate-in-apples-software-beta-programs-1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>In an investor conference call following <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/07\/31\/notes-of-interest-from-apples-q3-2018-conference-call\">Apple&#8217;s release of fiscal quarter three earnings on Thursday<\/a>, Cook said some four million people are running beta software on their iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV devices. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In June, we hosted an extremely successful developers conference that previewed many major advances coming this fall to our four operating systems: iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS,&#8221; Cook said. &#8220;Developer and customer reaction has been very positive and we have over four million users participating in our new OS beta programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The number of beta program participants is not something that Apple typically releases, so it&#8217;s unclear how that number compares to past years. Also unknown is how the participation statistics break down by operating system, and whether developers are included in the number. <\/p>\n<p>Apple frequently touts both the growth of the App Store and its contributions to the app development profession as a whole, so it&#8217;s a good guess that the four million figure for software beta participants in one year is among the largest ever for Apple, if not for the history of computing altogether. <\/p>\n<p>At WWDC, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/06\/12\/wwdc-was-all-about-software-just-like-it-was-when-steve-jobs-ran-the-show\">Apple unveiled iOS 12, Mac OS 10.14, watchOS 5 and TV OS 12<\/a>, and has periodically released beta editions of each in the weeks since. The full releases are scheduled for this fall. <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 By Stephen Silver Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 03:58 pm PT (06:58 pm ET) Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals that an extraordinarily large number of people are taking part in the company&#8217;s beta program, which covers early versions of iOS, macOS and the company&#8217;s other major operating systems. 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