Google publicly launched the Gmail API in beta on June 25, 2014, about eight months after Lee's unicorn article.

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"Google publicly launched the Gmail API in beta on June 25, 2014, about eight months after Lee’s unicorn article."

Google's June 2014 launch gives the manuscript a precise chronology - the Gmail API followed Lee's November 2013 unicorn article by about eight months.

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Source title Introducing the new Gmail API

Source authors Eric DeFriez

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance mid