Perhaps They Should Have Tested More - Mitt Romney Campaign

Amercia

Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee for President of The United States of America. His campaign recently released a new iPhone app, which misspelled a rather significant word. copyrightjoestrazzere

• One of the skins on the app says "A Better Amercia"
• “We thought this would be a fun, easy way to showcase support,” said Romney's digital director Zac Moffatt
• The Romney campaign has since submitted a corrected version of the app to Apple
• Receiving lots of laughs on twitter
• https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23amercia
• The New York Times wrote: "The typo is unlikely to become a major issue in Mr. Romney's efforts to unseat President Obama. But it is an unfortunate reminder that even the tiniest mistakes are magnified in an era when political opposition is crowdsourced globally. It's also a reminder to double-check your work."

Perhaps someone (anyone) in the Romney campaign should have tested more? It's the Amercian way!

See also:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57443522-37/mitt-romneys-iphone-app-spells-america-incorrectly/

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/amercia_mitt_romney_iphone_app_with_mitt_misspelled_america.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/romney-app-misspells-amercia/2012/05/29/gJQAgN8K0U_blog.html

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/romney-camp-misspells-america-in-new-app/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/united-states-amercia-mitt-romney-campaign-misspells-nation-lead-iphone-app-article-1.1086499

http://gizmodo.com/5914154/mitt-romneys-new-app-misspells-america-twitter-goes-wild
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-amercia-mitt-romney-20120530,0,651937.story

An update..
From the iPhone app store, this app now sports a new version:

    What's New in Version 1.0.1

        bug fixes

Indeed.

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This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality

	My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing. Find me at http://AllThingsQuality.com/.