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They never emailed me from the last "private beta" before announcing this. And now deploying this on AWS or Azure requires me to sign up for yet another "we'll get back to you..." private beta.

Love the tech, hate all this marketing runaround.

EDIT to add: either your beta is ready or it ain't. I understand a gentle initial seed to verify it's not an utter catastrophe but no need to play nanny with my bits across 20+ beta releases. I'm a grown up. Make a disclaimer and let me assess the risk. Your corporate logo looks like a 1970s Carvel ice cream cake--I know what I'm getting myself into.

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> Love the tech, hate all this marketing runaround.

Just wanted to offer an alternate point of view or maybe some context on this. There was over 70,000 people that signed up for the Docker for Mac & Windows beta. So, using an invite system was more of a self preservation measure, and not waiting to expose tons of people to bugs, as the beta was refined (through roughly twenty iterations). If a bad update rolls out across all these people, that would not be good, as you can imagine. So, much more self preservation measure, and wanting to catching things quickly in smaller batches, than wanting to market to you.

Here is the direct link to download Docker for Mac without a key https://www.docker.com/products/docker#/mac

Disclaimer: Working for Docker but this is my own thought.

Check your spam folder, some of the email from the last private beta went in people's spam folder, so they never saw them. Either way it doesn't matter anymore since Docker for Mac and Windows is now public to use without the need of a code.

I'm not sure there's much overlap is between people who can get Docker Machine limping on VirtualBox with storage and networking flowing properly on Windows 10 fast ring and those who don't know how to check their spam folders, but I appreciate the tip.

No messages (and I applied via two accounts for two different platforms). No message telling me "go get the bits!" today. And nothing in spam folders.

But yet another blog post asking me to sign up for yet another private beta... ugh.

EDIT to add: As polite feedback--two separate requests, two separate Docker accounts, one Gmail and one corporate email address, and I did not receive any invite during the private beta nor notification today when it went public.

You would be surprised how many people didn't see it in their spam folder. Hence the reason why I mentioned it. :)

Not sure what you mean about no message telling me to go get the bits today. There was no email saying that docker for mac/windows was made public, it was announced during the keynote at DockerCon (this morning), and a blog post went out.

Before we made it public, everyone who had signed up for the beta had an invite sent to them, and there was no one left in the queue.

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