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Gears is great. "Flaky connection mode" is even better.
I've been waiting for this feature for a really long time. Reminds me of 2005 when I was waiting for them to come out with Calendar and waiting for someone to come out with easy video publishing. Was so happy to see these products get made. The fact that Google controls all my data makes me less happy.
Why don't they charge for this?
Why don't they charge for this?
That being said, Eudora made a mint with its Pro version for many years.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well to release gears to a application like reader or docs is easy cause your userbase is small. Gmail is a HUGE product with thousands of users and to even release something like that to labs you need complete protection of not only the data but also security for your DBs. Reader and Docs were simply there to ensure the safety, if they went down due to security issues not that many people would be concerned.
Google's audience for reader and docs are in the millions and could hardly be described as "small", just like Gmail has a lot more than "thousands" of users :)
Thousands of emails and contacts with personal information. Docs and Reader doesn't need to store the contacts or emails of the user. Docs stores data and reader stores stores.
You can understand the security complications.
Google gmail goes off line with google gears (official google blog entry) s/gmail/Gmail s/off line/offline s/gears/Gears s/google/Google/g
I also called it 'Google Gears' and not it is only called 'Gears'
I am not really one to follow or believe in grammar for a simple link though, but I will say that many errors in a single line might be a bit over the top.
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Amazing! If only Knuth could appreciate this progress in computer science and software engineering! May be in volume 7 he can write about Web Browsers, DOM and AJAX… he can even drop its MMIX and rewrote all his books using Javascript, the real assembler of the Web! That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.