From the point of adoption

Lars — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:50:24 +0000

From the point of adoption Google Wave failed miserably, despite all its hype. So had those brave pioneers continued building collaboration and communities around wave, they would have been rather alone - even if Google had continued developing on the platform. So I really doubt that those startups would had been able to make a decent earning from Wave anyway.

Wave was an experiment that failed, which is the reason Google pulled the plug on developing it further. That's not evil nor cynical. It's really about cutting the loss.

It's not dead

Stewart Johnson — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:12:37 +0000

Well, as a separate product it's dead. But I fully expect to see the technologies appearing in all the google products. The apps products have had communal editing for a while, especially spreadsheets.

I thought wave was great, but if it's not right there in my gmail then I'm never going to remember to load it up. Where was my "continue this conversation in wave" button?

My guess is that they were reluctant to tinker with their flagship product (gmail) and risk losing trust and users. That might've happened if they'd big banged wave into gmail, but if they (as I expect) incrementally add features -- as they've been doing through gmail labs since gmail started -- then it'll be fine.

The IT Skeptic - Comments for "Wave goodbye: Google lacks bottle"

From the point of adoption

It's not dead