A short thought for you.
Apple once again has released a new phone. The iphone 4s today has shown issues with battery life. A blog with about 100,000 reads and 1300 comments points out this issue. This is the second time Apple has released a product with issues that if they had a "public beta" before release we would see the ablity to reduce these kind of events. Microsoft has learned this with the release of Windows 7 which has proved that the Public can give the best feedback and reduce costly mistakes.