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And yet gmail is still in beta?

• Shamiq 18y ago
  I remember they had a piece talking about this. Something about beta meaning they would continue to add new features to it. So I'm guessing that Chrome will not see additional functionality. EDIT: Like he said...RTFA...
  • tsetse-fly 18y ago
    RTFA: "We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done. We are working to add some common browser features such as form autofill and RSS support in the near future. We are also developing an extensions platform along with support for Mac and Linux."
    • transburgh 18y ago
      RFTA?
      • Shamiq 18y ago
        Read the F*n Article.
        • judofyr 18y ago
          Read the Fun Article?
      • yters 18y ago
        Read the facts, again?
        • yters 18y ago
          Radical turtles fight aliens? Man, this is hard.
• laut 18y ago
  Apple has been working on the Chrome code base* for a long time :P *) The WebKit part
• jwilliams 18y ago
  The never-ending beta seems to be endemic to services rather than products.
• bk 18y ago
  It's about managing expectations/perceptions: Gmail is in beta, so Google gets less flak for outages, account lockouts, etc. "It's free and beta, so it's unsupported, take it or leave it". They have a strong position compared to other crappier webmail services. For browsers it's reversed. Beta = "Can I really trust their browser to handle my online banking SSL connections properly?" It's the "go straight to version 2 to increase adoption" phenomenon. Edit: Also, strategy. Gmail expands adsense footprint. Chrome is Google's attempt to compete with flash, silverlight, et al. for the future "web OS", following the rule that platforms always end up beating applications.