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Gmail was in beta for 5 years, until 2009.
by L-four 7mo ago
Gmail was in beta for 5 years, until 2009.
- metalliqaz 7mo ago"Gemini, translate 'beta' from Googlespeak to English." "Ok, here is the translation:" 'we don't want to offer support'
- cyanydeez 7mo agoNah, it's "We dont want to provide a consistent model that we'll be stuck with supporting for a decade because it just takes up space; until we run everyone out of business, we can't afford to have customers tying their systems to any given model" Really, the economics makes no sense, but that's what they're doing. You can't have a consistent model because it'll pin their hardware & software, and that costs money.
- msikora 7mo agoI have a service that relies on NanoBanana Pro, but the availability has been so atrocious that we just might go back to OpenAI.
- solarkraft 7mo agoJust like any Google product then.
- jsemrau 7mo agoIt was a different company back then. The Internet was still new-ish and not the multi-trillion dollar company it is now. I'd think expectations are different.
- kfse 7mo agoUntil it had backup storage. Which ended up being useful in 2011 when tens of thousands of mailboxes were deleted due to a software bug and needed to be recovered from tape...