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Re:Gmail's product manager on Labs, beta, the future by kennyroo on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @12:16AM (#539604)
Using the term "Beta" to describe a 5-year-old product more or less deprecates the meaning of the word, doesn't it?
Re:Gmail's product manager on Labs, beta, the future by peregrine on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @12:22AM (#539621)
Semantics. At his point its a term of endearment more then anything. Google has more important things to worry about it seems.
Re:Gmail's product manager on Labs, beta, the future by enomar on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @02:38AM (#539752)
Why do you think time has anything to do with the stability of software? It's really up to them to label their software how they see fit. I respect them for not blinding doing what everyone else does.