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I don't have a problem with Google's resources to build something of that magnitude successfully. My problem is with their execution. All their products are in perpetual beta. And the users are forever testers. That's their business model, and it doesn't call for great UI/UX.


Search is beta? Google WiFi? Gmail? Android? YouTube? Chromecast? Project zero? Maps? Photos?


GMail was in beta for a long time. Search is not a product but a service. Maps was in beta for long as well.


> GMail was in beta for a long time.

Which doesn't justify the universal, present-tense claim upthread.


That was Windows 95 and most Microsoft software.

It's pretty much the norm today for everyone.




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