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They didn't need an open beta test to figure out that this software flat out did not deliver on its core premise of fast task entry, "trusted system", and task synchronization.
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While you're certainly not alone in your frustrations, I would submit that you're in a small (but important!) minority: the feedback we've received overall indicates that the vast majority of the tens of thousands of people who have started using OmniFocus on their iPhones over the last five weeks are very pleased with it.
We did work very, very hard to try to make sure the app was solid for release on day one: since we couldn't follow our usual practice of leveraging outside beta testers, we pulled every member of our QA team off of all our other projects so they could focus on testing just the iPhone app. Our testing identified 39 different places the app could crash, and before we submitted 1.0 to Apple we fixed all but a few (those few being some uncommon crashes in Apple's code for which we hadn't discovered a cause or found a workaround). We also identified and fixed a number of performance issues, reducing the load time for my database from minutes to seconds and optimizing the common sync case so it could apply synced changes without doing a complete reload.
Obviously, the limited size of our test pool did mean that we weren't able to exercise the app as fully as when we scaled up to tens of thousands of users. But we've been using the app ourselves this whole time, and we made sure it was working well for everyone testing or using it before we shipped the 1.0 release to Apple on July 4.
But again, I'm sorry to hear that the 1.0 release didn't meet your expectations, and I hope you can see that we're continuing to work hard to address that.