How do companies like Apple know their products will function properly when only a beta is ready upon announcement?
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It’s complicated, but here is the short version. Before we announce a product, any product, it is usually mostly complete. We have versions of it in house, employees are using it on a daily basis, and a team of people is doing their best to find any issues. This will continue up until you get to a ‘golden’ point. This is when everyone involved agrees that what you’ve got is good to go and there will be no major problems. After this no changes are allowed to the product, but testing continues. Note that this may not be exactly like you showed the product initially. Features that proved to have lots of problems, or not work as expected may have been removed. Materials may have changed if they proved to be too expensive, things like that. All this said, products almost NEVER get out without some issues. This is why you very often see patches released sometimes days after the initial release.
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