Yes, I do. I was one of the first to volunteer to beta test them, and got to help develop uses for them. (And I’m not using them now in solidarity for all the people who don’t have them yet. They need to see how other people are going to use them, and gather data from them.) If the other testers who have them aren’t using them, they might decide not to allocate the resources to it in the future.
But…to everyone who is still concerned about it… I know they’re still considering them from things Dan has said here on the forum. The beta test is still going on. The only thing that changed was that they closed the beta test when they had enough machines to get a good sample for data gathering, and it got temporarily “back-burnered” from a support standpoint. They are still gathering the data from it.
That’s my read on it anyway. And it fits with the way they have been doing things, and with good business practice in general. I’m not sure I would have released the beta test widely as early as they did, but it turns out they were actually using the Snapmarks beta to fine tune the Recalibrator and Set Focus tools. Those went out to everyone, so everyone has already benefited from it, and I think it turned out to be a good call.
Just think of the Snapmarks beta as a Preview of Coming Attractions. Good things are coming once they shoot the film. 