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its in beta because there is absolutely nothing for Google to gain by taking it out of beta

• patio11 18y ago
  Customers just do not care about the things that keep developers up at night. See also: version numbers, license text, whether it is compatible with <insert any technology this question is ever asked about>, etc.
  • josefresco 18y ago
    Customers care of stuff doesn't work. And if Beta Gmail stopped working they'd certainly care enough to call/email me all day crying bloody murder. What option am I left then considering it's only beta software, and free at that? The beta tag has become like those "void where prohibited", "some restrictions apply", "limited warrenty" statements and the like. It's a cover your ass tactic that has almost no real world meaning anymore.
• johns 18y ago
  The only thing for them to gain now by leaving beta is the huge tech press/blog coverage the status change will get. Which they don't really need anyway.
• peregrine 18y ago
  Its more then anything a term of endearment. Gmail was the first app and the first beta app. And overall it still represents the hotbed of new features and design.
  • pieter 18y ago
    Exactly, just look at how the GMail mobile has changed over time. I wonder if that's one of the items on their secret checklist. That said, GMail is also by far the slowest app of them all, it can take seconds to load. I hope they'll implement some kind of background loading sometime.