Gmail and a raft of other apps were finally thrown out of beta recently. The assumed reason is that Google is trying to horn in on the enormous business market for applications, and people can get fired for greenlighting betas which break. But if you miss that not-ready-for-primetime new app feel, go "Back to Beta".
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Have you ever noticed that many google servies, like most or all of the google apps including Gmail and Google Docs, are "Beta"?
Well, not any more:
Human beta globin has held a special place in my heart due to its rather prominent role in the Evolution-Creation 'debate'. It just got a neat evolutionary upgrade :)
Calling all skeptics ... So, what's the story with this thing?
Here is a quick story. A faculty member came to me last week disappointed about the introductory physics students' lack of understanding with regard to electric potential. Let me call the faculty Beta, because I think that would be a cool name.
After hearing about GMail going out of beta, I went and checked the logo inside of GMail to see if it has changed. It hasn't (for me). It still says Beta for me.
Now having seen your link I went and looked at Google Labs to see if "Back to Beta" was automatically turned on for me. It isn't. It's marked as Disabled.
Weird!
I thought perhaps it's an image caching issue, but doing a hard reload on the logo, still gives me this one: https://mail.google.com/mail/images/2/5/logo.png (Which says Beta.)
I wonder if I'm the only one that GMail still says Beta for (while "Back to Beta" is disabled)?