A long winding road out of beta

Mack Male Uncategorized February 11, 2005 1 Minute

Ha! I am not the only one who thinks that Google’s and other company’s “beta” periods are just insane:

“I feel like ‘beta’ has become a questionable term,” said Mary Hodder, a technology consultant. “Google and Flickr just leave it on their sites for years, so it cues us to think, beta, no big deal.”

Read: CNET News.com

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Mack is on a mission to change the world through code and prose. An entrepreneurial journalist based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Mack is the co-founder of Taproot Publishing, a digital publishing company that helps communities understand themselves better. View all posts by Mack Male

Published February 11, 2005

2 thoughts on “A long winding road out of beta”

colin says:

February 12, 2005 at 7:18 am

Perhaps it’s because people don’t expect bug-free betas, and there are more justified disclaimers in the license agreements.

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Mack D. Male says:

February 15, 2005 at 5:46 pm

They should not use the term beta is what I think. "extended test period", I don’t know, anything.

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