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"We're often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta." It was a great lead-in, but he never did answer this.
"We're often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta." It was a great lead-in, but he never did answer this.
Achieving the goals of the "high bar" seem to be the key to getting out of beta. But five years? That's a really high bar.
One more thing for those who still like the look of "beta", we've made it easy to re-enable the beta label for Gmail from the Labs tab under Settings. This is silly and undermines the whole concept of a "beta" version. It makes it look like a fashion accessory more than anything, not an actual indication of product stability and completion.
"We're often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta." It was a great lead-in, but he never did answer this.
I thought the common wisdom was that it's a matter of liability as in "hey, sorry we lost all of your emails but it was clearly indicated as a beta product; maybe next time you'll pay for the commercial version which has SLAs"
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I thought the common wisdom was that it's a matter of liability as in "hey, sorry we lost all of your emails but it was clearly indicated as a beta product; maybe next time you'll pay for the commercial version which has SLAs"
Except they already had a paid commercial version with SLAs, while the product was still labeled "beta."