B.E.T.A
June 13, 2007
The web is a very fickle place, all too often things get blown out of proportion or misinformation is spread like wildfire to the detriment of those involved. (Mentioning no names there…)
A prime example of this? The recently released Safari 3 beta. Since it’s release on Monday the beta has been downloaded thousands of times and predictably many people have had problems and in fact a quite severe security bug was found too. Then you get people posting in forums, things such as “well it wouldn’t even launch for me”, “it’s really slow”, “this plugin doesn’t work” and always a classic “this browser sucks, Apple sucks”.
This is beta, yes B.E.T.A.
Personally I blame Google for this state of misinformation on the web. Actually blame is a bit of a strong word for this, but they certainly played a part in bringing about the new mindset in software development where beta actually means a bug free shipping version.
So please, when you read poor quality, misinformed and premature reviews (did someone say Wired? ) about how poor the browser is, spare a moment to consider that this is just beta. (The first beta in fact).
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