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Google Considers Taking Beta Tag Off Gmail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-your-lifetime dept.

Barence writes "Google is considering removing the beta tag from Gmail — and other online services — a mere five years after it was first launched. Google has become somewhat synonymous with seemingly endless beta cycles. Many of the company's most famous services, including Gmail, Docs, and Calendar all still carry the beta tag. Google now admits the eternal beta cycles could be damaging consumer and business confidence in its online apps. 'It's a minor annoyance and something you'll see addressed in the not-too-distant future.'"

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  1. Re:Obama Auto Task Force - Chicago Ganster Politic by andymadigan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Get a brain, Chrysler is closing down those dealerships as part of its bankruptcy *because it ran its business poorly and is out of money*. It would have run out of money sooner without government bailouts. Unless you can prove that:

    1) The government picked the dealerships to be closed
    AND
    2) A disproportionate number of dealerships were republican funders (e.g. how many of ALL Chrysler dealerships donated to the GOP verus number that were closed)

    You're just making shit up. You cannot prove #1, so even if #2 is true it's Chrysler's decision, not the Government.

    Are you honestly saying that Chrysler should get more government money to save their failing business? Isn't that Socialism?

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  2. Re:Obama Auto Task Force - Chicago Ganster Politic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't watch much news, do you? The President assassinated the character of Chrysler's debt holders in front of the media and threw their rights out the window. We have a very organized structure through which bankruptcy legal proceedings occur in this country, and this president shat all over them just so he could hand Chrysler over to his UAW buddies.

  3. Re:Obama Auto Task Force - Chicago Ganster Politic by andymadigan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    AFAIK The President has no such power over bankruptcy proceedings, and Chrysler is currently in bankruptcy proceedings. Further,I don't see how throwing out the bonds would make it more necessary to close dealerships, in fact, it would make it less necessary (fewer liabilities).

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