[chronster]

As a developer, I've seen exactly what alpha stage is. Me and the guy I work with build something, test it a little, and send it out. To be honest, we always think the program is better than it is and the testers give us a list of bugs we had no idea would be so long.

Don't think of their public ALPHA as a public beta. They are giving everyone a taste and getting free testing out of it. Beta stage should be more stable, like to a point where the developers run through it and don't find anything.

Look at opera mobile. That things gonna be in beta forever it seems like lol