Showing posts with label beta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beta. Show all posts

Monday, 26 January 2009

Google projects: permanent beta (or alpha?)

Google Mail: BETA!
Google Maps: BETA!
Google x | x is a Google project name.

Android was released as 1.0 version. No "BETA" word applied to it. But with the latest repository merge, they're loosing control of the huge number of sub-projects and modules of the project.
They are publishing code stubs, fulfilled with comments (not very useful in most cases), without any implementation example.

I hope Google is having strictly coupled information exchanges with big mobile devices manufacturers, or they'll soon branch the Android project, choosing their best way to implement what they need.

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Google Chrome browser SHORT review

Surfing the web by using GBrowser...
Fast, indeed. Uses Webkit, so webpages are displayed correctly... More or less.
Used memory is very low. That could be a great advantage on not very fast machines.
It is a BETA: it is not possible to manage bookmarks... No plug-ins. No extensions.
I think Google released this browser with the aim of provide a fast browser for netbooks and implement some optimization (and integration) with Google Apps (Google Gears).
It cannot replace Mozilla Firefox, now.

Official Google Blog: Google Chrome now live