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I agree! I think the reason Wave failed was due to poor marketing. I never truly understood what it was until it had already been killed off. I'll admit it was
by Lowkeyloki 8y ago
I agree! I think the reason Wave failed was due to poor marketing. I never truly understood what it was until it had already been killed off. I'll admit it was a hard sell when you boot into a blank page that looks like a word processor.
It was sadly ahead of its time and was probably pitched to the wrong audience from the start. Rather than trying to explain why Wave is better than email and chat to the internet at large, they probably should have pitched it as a business productivity tool. Oh, well. Hindsight is 20/20.
- 0-_-0 8y ago> I think the reason Wave failed was due to poor marketing. I never truly understood what it was until it had already been killed off. I wonder why Google didn't put a Wave section into Gmail, or a "take your email conversation to Wave" button for inter-Gmail conversations.
- gcb0 8y agobecause that would have required a single product person, and Google have none. Google only have failed engineers turned product manager. they live and die by some random metrics. the gmail PM would never accept anything there that reduced time spent (or some other random, disconnected from reality, success metric) by a second!
- danpalmer 8y agoYeah I'm not even sure that pitching it for business productivity would have been enough. The reasons it shines: chat, collaborative editing, blurred lines between documents, emails, and chat – those are built on concepts that didn't exist back then. We can see the value of it now precisely because we've had the intermediate stage of Slack/Docs/Gmail/etc. If that doesn't mean "ahead of its time" I don't know what does.
- viraptor 8y agoIt wasn't only marketing. Either the codebase was bad or the browsers at the time were not powerful enough for it. I remember using it for a uni project and after a few messages got into the history, it kept getting slower and slower. At some point it took seconds of lag between the key presses and the result. As great as wave was, it didn't work very well either.
- onlyrealcuzzo 8y agoIf it was written in Angular, that sounds about right.
- randiantech 8y agoIf im not wrong it was developed using GWT.
- kyrra 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave It was open sourced as Apache Wave. Yes, it was gwt.
- buzzerbetrayed 8y agoWave predates angular, but good attempt at a dig?
- paul7986 8y agoIs Youtube written in Angular? I find myself having to refresh the page (Firefox is my default) to load the proper video fairly often; annoying UX.