Gmail Labs - Not for apps users!

Late last week, Google added a new feature called "Gmail Labs" to Gmail. It consists of a tab in the "Settings," which allows you to add some new mini-features to Gmail. The features were all created by Google developers in their free time, and Google promises more to come. Some are neat and useful, others (like the snake game) are just ridiculous. I'm glad Google is rolling out these features to its users instead of just keeping them in-house.

However, once again, Google has yet to role out Gmail Labs to Google Apps users, in an apparent repeat of the long wait last fall for Gmail 2.0 to roll out. Around the end of last year (2 months after the initial roll out), Google announced a new option for Google Apps. administrators to "Enable new features" as soon as they roll out. I was hoping this would keep the apps code base in line with the regular code-base when new features were to be rolled out in the future, thus delivering new features immediately to Google Apps users and not making them feel like second class citizens. This doesn't seem to be the case. I understand that Google intends Google Apps to be an "enterprise" system, and as such needs to be completely stable, but at least provide an option for those of us that want new features and want them immediately!