Google may stop playing ‘beta’ games

December 31st, 1969 | Category: Gadget News

I told you back in February: “Don’t be fooled by Google’s phony ‘beta’ label.” The company simply slaps a “beta” designation on offerings in a way that seems random — Gmail, for example, has been in “beta” for five

years. Now, the company is having second thoughts considering enterprise customers might shy away from risky-sounding beta products. The company is thinking about removing beta designations for some products aimed at business customers.

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