Topic

Staged feature rollouts

The practice of enabling software features for subsets of users at the vendor's discretion, often controlled server-side and independent of the version a user has installed.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

WhatsApp replaces the iPad tab bar with a Mac-style sidebar by default

WABetaInfo reports the sidebar is taking over from the bottom tab bar on iPad, and it is turning up on both TestFlight and regular App Store installs, so two people on the same build can see different navigation.

Publishers:9to5mac.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption22
Hype gap+8
Incentives35
Confidence52