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06 Apr 2008, 3:58 am

I don't understand why the hell Gmail is still in beta... It's been around for over 3 or 4 years now! Does anybody have an explanation for this?


For some reason this question just popped into my head after checking out my emails.



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06 Apr 2008, 5:12 am

my guess is that it's just a way of telling people, hey, nothing's guaranteed here. it's free and can break at any time...



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06 Apr 2008, 6:10 am

I think it has a lot to do with the development of their mobile OS Android, as well as their ongoing development of Google Docs.

Google has big plans for both Android, and Google Docs, & Gmail will be a big part of both.



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06 Apr 2008, 10:48 am

I'd like to know why one has to have a gmail account to have a blogger account. I never use the gmail, never will. Pointless.


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06 Apr 2008, 10:59 am

I had a blogger account and just used my other email address. Then I signed up for gmail and changed that. You're actually signing up for a google account



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06 Apr 2008, 12:59 pm

Gmail and 99% of everything google is still beta...


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06 Apr 2008, 4:34 pm

Gmail is constantly under development an is always in beta.

I don't think I've ever seen a mail application come so far in such a short period of time.


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06 Apr 2008, 11:10 pm

Welcome to the new trend in application development..



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08 Apr 2008, 8:19 pm

Tremere wrote:
Welcome to the new trend in application development..


never taking responsibility is awesome!

and wow, it has been four years already (almost.. I joined April 26th).. crazy! I used to have quite a few e-mail addresses and now I have gmail, my college e-mail, and that's it. I trust my life to a beta service haha



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08 Apr 2008, 11:27 pm

I've been using gmail for 3 years now, I love it compared to outlook express



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09 Apr 2008, 3:49 pm

Maybe to tell people that being in beta when you arn't truly in beta is uber-pwn.



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09 Apr 2008, 4:01 pm

my brain is still in beta... and im 16 years old :P


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09 Apr 2008, 5:04 pm

pat666rick wrote:
I don't understand why the hell Gmail is still in beta... It's been around for over 3 or 4 years now! Does anybody have an explanation for this?


For some reason this question just popped into my head after checking out my emails.


Oh, no! Did I forget to move that out of beta? Silly me... :lol:


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09 Apr 2008, 5:15 pm

remember, all the explanations in here are still in beta, and are subject to change :P


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17 Apr 2008, 11:59 am

I am willing to bet that it's not in beta... google is just too lazy to take the beta image down :D


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