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Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program

Posted by chrisd on from the leaks-are-part-of-betas dept.

coolmacdude writes "This morning Safari beta v67 was leaked to the Internet. Because this is the third time it has happened (v62 and v64 were leaked), Apple has apparantly had enough and decided to terminate the seed program that provided unreleased beta verisons to selected developers. In a email sent to all developers and posted on Mike Wendland's blog, Apple says: 'Due to Safari 67 postings to the internet, we have closed the Safari Seed project. We know that the majority of you are not responsible for the leaks to the internet, and we sincerely appreciate your feedback, time and effort with this project.'"

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  1. Re:Damn Him! by rizawbone · · Score: 0, Troll

    reading that was incredibly painful. how can you people mod this shit up?

  2. Re:Why not just open the beta to everyone? by Frequanaut · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your 100% correct. They're well within in their rights and even moral obligations. However this is a perfect example of why I run debian (when I'm not running winxp for work). I dislike access to innovation being withheld (even if it will eventually be available).
    Now, I just need to reconcile that as someone who makes a living from software development.

  3. Re:Pathetically uncool by King_TJ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, I hate to say it - but it's to be expected on the Mac platform. They simply don't have enough new software titles out to keep people busy otherwise.

    If the amount of new shareware and commercial software released in the PC world was released for the Mac, you'd see far fewer people who'd even bother to download and install some un-released beta of a public beta web browser.