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Posted on: July 8, 2009 2:41 AM, by Razib Khan

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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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)?

Posted by: Charles Iliya Krempeaux | July 8, 2009 12:14 PM