Google Beta 12
I, like the average American, spend alot of time on Google. Whether it’s Googling the latest buzzword, or using one of the latest and greatest Google Apps. Yeah I use Gmail as my main mail account and have used GChat, Picasa, Google Docs, Scholar and the whole bit. The one thing I noticed, with the exception of Google.com Search every single App I use is a “Beta” says so right there in the header.
I have been using Gmail for like two years, how is something in Beta form that long?
If “Beta: is an excuse they can make so no one else can come out with a better App because Google Apps are never complete then it is a bad excuse.
The internet is an evolutionary medium and it is this very nature which makes every page and application an eternal Beta, as the sites evolve to meet the new needs of the users. Unlike conventional products which are the same from the minute they leave the factory to the minute they enter the waste stream, a user could log onto their Facebook, Gmail or any other site and have a different product then they did the day before (I know firsthand since I only learned the ins and outs of Facebook and today there is the new version out!).
Google why must you Beta? Is it the bugs in the software? We have all been using Windows since 3.1 so we know to expect “Unexpected errors” to occur.
Just call it what it is Application Version 1,453,674,432.0 and counting!