Gmail beta

vistalavista

I just noticed that and yet I've been using Gmail for 4 years. How long does it take for a product to lose it's beta status?

dynamik

Google products are perpetually in beta.

Mishra

It's so when they lose your data they can say, "sorry this was in beta and nothing was guarenteed".

astorrs

Mishra wrote:

It's so when they lose your data they can say, "sorry this was in beta and nothing was guarenteed".

Yup, this is a common problem with Google. I laugh everytime I here someone suggest a Google Application (Google Docs for example) could be an effective alternative for business (to MS Office lets say).

Its been suggested that at any one time ~10% of Google's apps are broken, would you like to base your business on those numbers - I sure wouldn't.

gojericho0

or when there's privacy issues. i remember gmail wasn't fully ssl for quite some time

tiersten

gojericho0 wrote:

or when there's privacy issues. i remember gmail wasn't fully ssl for quite some time

Only recently within the last few weeks has gmail offered you the ability to have a fully secured SSL connection without manually editing the URL.

Everything Google does is pretty much in beta forever because they're constantly messing about with it. As Mishra said, if at the end of the day it blows up then they'll just turn around and go yeah well... it was in beta sorry. It also means that they can discontinue something with little notice.

RussS

I only use gmail for my **** account - no way in a million years would I let them look at anything personal

pLuhhmm

RussS wrote:

I only use gmail for my **** account - no way in a million years would I let them look at anything personal

Who do you use then hotmail lmao

RussS

Hell no - I am my own ISP and host my own mail