I'll Probably Feel Different Tomorrow
Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 10:01AM I was planning to make this post on the release date, but after playing around with Chrome for a bit I decided that I wasn't going to be able to get away with a “Wow this is awesome, everything is great!” sort of post.
One thing about Google that has always gotten to me is that they release everything as a Beta. I can’t remember the last thing, if anything, they released that wasn't branded a Beta. Gmail is still considered to be in Beta. Why not remove Beta and call it version X, or simply call it Gmail? Slapping Beta on everything seems like a way of escaping blame should problems occur, saying, “We told you it was Beta after all!” You could also look at it as them being eager to share their excitement about their cool new projects that aren’t quite finished yet.