How big of a hole has Zwift dug itself?

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Said this before but I can’t understand why there’s never been a user beta testing program. I’m absolutely convinced there would be many people willing to help the software be better, gratis… but they’re not utilised. There’s been some brief glimmers of it in the last year or so, but nothing close to what it could be.

Even if it didn’t directly eliminate bugs, it would at the very least allow the Support team to get ahead of known issues instead of what happens now, where stuff just randomly appears as the user base finds out what’s broken in the live environment.

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I would have though a better solution would have been to use MoltenVK for Apple Vulkan compatibility and then later move to Vulkan on the all platforms.

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Yep i find that very strange given the constant release and patch a bug we seem to have had for the last 6 months.

The one thing i think worked pretty well was the clubs rollout with closed beta before release with good communication on forums to highlight any problems.

Releases could work similarly I’m sure there would be no shortage of people volunteering to test before it gets released to the masses.

and if you are releasing to the masses then bug fixes need prioritised over everything else. ATV crash on the alp springs to mind that took about 6 weeks to fix

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Yeah, would have made a load of sense (in so far as I understand all this) as the closest thing to a cross-platform basis if OpenGL is no longer viable. That’s what makes me wonder/worry if Apple [only] will become the future for the software, intentionally or otherwise.

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I haven’t seen it either even after upgrading and rebooting my Mac. I’m in the middle of a 12 week training plan so was wondering if that’s the issue :woman_shrugging:

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Its a slow roll out, not tied to an update. There is an entire thread about it, if you want more info.

Sorry OP, off topic.

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Although outside of the US Apple has much less of the total market share for both mobile and desktop so that might be a case of cutting off your nose.

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I’m aware that the thread exists, just didn’t bother to read it. Given that the slow roll-out started at the beginning of the year (which is half a Zwift season ago), I simply would have expected to see it before the summer break. And that’s where it is not so off-topic anymore. If software updates were tested before being announced, it probably would not take so long.

edit: and before anyone is picking on the word “update”, in this case it is meant to be read as an update of available functionality, completely unrelated to how this rolls out to individual end users. Because really, I don’t care.

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Even in the US, it looks like Apple only had an 8.5% market share in 2021. Probably safe to assume that Zwift isn’t going to leave 92% of their potential market in the dark.

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I assume that number is only for computers, not necessarily AppleTVs (streaming device segment), iPhones (wireless smartphone segment) or tablets?

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People have been banging on about the potential IPO for ages, over 2 years I’d say? What’s the hold up and would it be a disaster?

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