None of the hardware you mention is in Beta. None of it is being released for the masses to test. Like all technology, it becomes outdated as the components improve. So the iPad was a complete product. The iPad2 was an improved one. etc. If the first one serves your needs, you don’t buy the next, or the next, or the next until you need to replace yours.

As for Windows… well, NT was a huge success. It was aimed at corporate users, and thrived there, and was used as a basis for future versions, and evetually Windows 2000. It was never meant to be on a home machine. 3.1 to 95 was a huge jump in how the OS worked. ME was a joke. XP was another major shift. Vista was, yet again, a complete rewrite. 7 was Vista with all the bugs fixed. Now 8 is actually out IN BETA, because it’s far far cheaper to offer up a free, limited version to the masses and say “find our bugs” than to do it in-house with a product that is 98% finished. There’s no user bias, there’s no “this is just how it works” excuse that makes it to the public. The result being that it costs millions less in R&D and therefore lowers the price. Plus, 8, like Vista, is a whole new beast, and a free beta gets it in the hands of the power users before the general public starts bitching about how different it is.

Google offers everything up for free, and does things nobody has done before. The beta phase for them is as much about user acceptance as bug squashing. So when they’ve found a system that’s accepted, it comes out of beta. Do you think if they said “Google+ Final Version!” that people would have flocked to it any more? Nobody’s forcing you to sign up for their service.

Using your mentality, nobody would own anything, because things keep being improved upon. My appliances are more efficient than my parents’. My car is better than the one I used to have. My home is better built than a mud shack. That doesn’t mean my parents shouldn’t have had appliances, I shouldn’t have had a car in my 20′s, or that nobody should have lived in mud shacks.

You buy what you need/want when need/want it. If you become a slave to the product cycle just because something’s new, that’s not the fault of the manufacturers.

When Sachin makes 101th Century playing an One Day International( the 50 overs game) he will be scoring his 50th ODI century, which is again a record in itself…

the one statement I absolutely liked was “At my work I tell people I want them to make mistakes and fail. Co-workers think I’m nuts. They are wrong. If you fail, you learn and most likely won’t ever make that same mistake ever again.”

I believe in this philosophy.. you learn by your own mistakes. Do mistakes, learn from it, so that you don’t do it when you cannot afford doing mistakes. I heard a statement from one prominent professor I had pleasure of meeting, he used to say, “do as many mistakes in college as you can, because when you go out to real world, your chances of doing mistakes will start reducing”.