> A big proportion of the Google Wave complaints surrounded the UX, both for end-users and devs. I disagree. In fact I think worrying about that is a bit like

> A big proportion of the Google Wave complaints surrounded the UX, both for end-users and devs. I disagree. In fact I think worrying about that is a bit like polishing the brass on the Titanic. The biggest problem Wave had (and has) is "what problem does it solve?" What I heard time and time again could be summarized as "This is neat but what do we use it for?" The problem with Wave is it's what can happen when engineers are in charge of product development. I look at Wave and see something that could be used as a building block for many other communication platforms (email, IM and so on) so they're solving a technical "problem" without solving any user problems.