I was chatting with Aaron Mahnke this morning about some things concerning iCloud and iOS 5 and I had a thought:
Beta is stressful.
I am not an app developer, by any stretch of the imagination. Programming is the one part about computers that I just don’t understand.
But I do have access to a developer account. So both my iPad and iPhone 4 are running beta software at the moment.
I’m not testing any apps on it. I just like seeing what’s next earlier than most people. I like fiddling with new settings. I like living on the edge.
Most nerds do, in one way or another. I know guys who can’t swim, but play with enough electricity to kill a family. Some nerds can’t talk to girls, but will pour their hearts and souls into some code that others will inevitably pick apart. I’ll risk not being able to use my iPhone to play with some new notifications a few months early.
While it is fun, it is also stressful. There are lots of rough edges and missing pieces in the iOS 5/iCloud picture right now. One of the iOS 3 beta, my iPhone would just reboot when I tried answering it in areas with low cell signal.
Whoops.
Excuse me, my iPhone is buzzing.