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Previous to TestFlight, life was ridiculously painful for an iPhone developer to beta test apps. I wish they'd charge me, it's that good. I'd probably pay at least $100 a month.

I've heard a lot of praise for Testflight, and now we have people proclaiming "I wish they'd charge me". What's the catch - or put in a better way, what's their business model?

Gathering device UDIDs and offering beta testers on a platter to those that pay.

They have a large amount of funding from groups that should point you in the direction of where they may go.

My guess is an eventual business model is for advertisers (the true customers) to get user information from developers who opt-in. Getting a mass-load of app developers, each with their own end users, into your ecosystem provides a lot of data to sell.

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