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They launched Wave in May of 2009. It's not like they yanked it all that quickly.

by evansolomon 16y ago

kenjackson 16y ago
Microsoft announced, then released, spent $250M on advertising, and then killed a new phone in that time.
- brown9-2 16y ago
  To be fair, Google did the same thing in the same time frame with the Nexus One, minus the ad budget. Sometimes disrupting existing markets and paradigms takes time, patience, and several iterations. (I'm still disappointed at how quickly they stopped the direct-sale idea with the Nexus One)
  - tomhogans 16y ago
    The biggest problem with selling the Nexus One direct was support. Carriers didn't want to support a phone that hadn't branded and Google couldn't accept that people don't want to ask a community message board and wait a few days for a reply when their phone doesn't work.
    - bokchoi 16y ago
      The community message board support model doesn't work for google. My current peeve is this god-awful bug thread for adding an additional account to an Android phone: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=6981e6d970e2f29f&hl=en
- thought_alarm 16y ago
  Microsoft made $250M profit yesterday.
  - PanMan 16y ago
    While that sounds great, according to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(+microsoft+profit+)+/+day http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(+microsoft+profit+)+/+... it's actually 51 million/day. So it took them a full week to make the 250 million. Or was yesterday special?
    - daok 16y ago
      He was ironic. I am always fascinated to see people that do not understand that kind of humor.
      - PanMan 16y ago
        To be ironic, you should have said 250 billion :).
prosa 16y ago
Given the "this is the future of communication" fanfare, I think some of us expected it to be a long term play.
chc 16y ago
It was announced in May 2009. It wasn't publicly released until three months ago (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005394-264.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005394-264.html).
- jonknee 16y ago
  It had an invite system like Gmail, millions of users were in before it was "public". I signed up in November 2009 (and last logged in then too).
j1o1h1n 16y ago
The public beta was only made available in May or June this year (as I recall).

They launched Wave in May of 2009. It's not like they yanked it all that quickly.

kenjackson 16y ago

Microsoft announced, then released, spent $250M on advertising, and then killed a new phone in that time.

brown9-2 16y ago
To be fair, Google did the same thing in the same time frame with the Nexus One, minus the ad budget. Sometimes disrupting existing markets and paradigms takes time, patience, and several iterations. (I'm still disappointed at how quickly they stopped the direct-sale idea with the Nexus One)
- tomhogans 16y ago
  The biggest problem with selling the Nexus One direct was support. Carriers didn't want to support a phone that hadn't branded and Google couldn't accept that people don't want to ask a community message board and wait a few days for a reply when their phone doesn't work.
  - bokchoi 16y ago
    The community message board support model doesn't work for google. My current peeve is this god-awful bug thread for adding an additional account to an Android phone: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=6981e6d970e2f29f&hl=en
thought_alarm 16y ago
Microsoft made $250M profit yesterday.
- PanMan 16y ago
  While that sounds great, according to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(+microsoft+profit+)+/+day http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(+microsoft+profit+)+/+... it's actually 51 million/day. So it took them a full week to make the 250 million. Or was yesterday special?
  - daok 16y ago
    He was ironic. I am always fascinated to see people that do not understand that kind of humor.
    - PanMan 16y ago
      To be ironic, you should have said 250 billion :).

prosa 16y ago

Given the "this is the future of communication" fanfare, I think some of us expected it to be a long term play.

chc 16y ago

It was announced in May 2009. It wasn't publicly released until three months ago (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005394-264.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005394-264.html).

jonknee 16y ago
It had an invite system like Gmail, millions of users were in before it was "public". I signed up in November 2009 (and last logged in then too).

j1o1h1n 16y ago

The public beta was only made available in May or June this year (as I recall).