Really? ICQ built character by character typing all the way back in the late 90s, and users back then stumbled across basically all of the same landmines Google

Really? ICQ built character by character typing all the way back in the late 90s, and users back then stumbled across basically all of the same landmines Google Wave exposed. The issue is that the problem Google's engineers perceived simply did not exist. The latency of waiting 30 seconds for a person to finish forming their thought into something coherent just isn't something worth overcoming.