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I honestly think that live typing was a large part of Wave’s failure. It seemed like a great idea on the surface, but in practice what you initially type is ra
by luhn 8y ago
I honestly think that live typing was a large part of Wave’s failure. It seemed like a great idea on the surface, but in practice what you initially type is rarely what you want your response to be. It was a really painful feature that few people seemed to like, but Google doubled down on it, eventually removing “Draft” checkbox that allowed you to disable it.
The feature was later picked up by Google Docs, where it is quite useful.
- ehsankia 8y agoMost of Wave could probably be replaced by a shared Google Doc instead. But then if you remove all that stuff, I'm not sure if what's left is really worth introducing a whole new paradigm for. I think the lesson really is, if you need that kind of workflow, just use a live doc.