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Re:Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta by raju on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @09:52AM (#392951)
That was essentially the reason I found this interesting. Considering (as another comment correctly states) Gmail has been in Beta for 4 years. Google almost singlehandedly started the "perpetual beta" mantra, and suddenly, Chrome, which happens to be a complex piece of software, is out of beta.

Makes me think... Why?

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Re:Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta by johns on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:53AM (#393033)
Chrome has been in development since spring of 2006. It has been around much longer than it has been public.
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Re:Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta by grag on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @12:43PM (#393198)
Just a guess, but they may feel that having the beta label on a downloadable app tends to turn people off, whereas people don't mind beta web apps (its the norm and they won't screw up your system).
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Re:Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta by Lagged2Death on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:56PM (#393921)
It could be something simple. It could be that the people who decide whether Gmail is a beta or not aren't the people who decide whether Chrome is a beta or not.
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Re:Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta by d0mine on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:38AM (#393013)
Because It is a desktop software, not a web application.
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