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Google Wave was really what I thought the ideal marriage between email and IM. Why did it fail again?
by chetan51 15y ago
Google Wave was really what I thought the ideal marriage between email and IM. Why did it fail again?
- noahth 15y ago1) incredibly poor rollout strategy (imo) 2) what problem did it actually solve again? forgive any appearance of snark; i just wanted to be concise, and i don't think that "the ideal marriage between email and IM" is something that people were - or are - desperately crying out to have.
- Scaevolus 15y agoThe things that turned me off were: 1) Busy, complex interface. 2) Sluggishness. I find Convore to be a much better way to approach the same problem of how to enhance email.
- cstejerean 15y agoI believe it failed in part because of the slow rollout (nobody you cared about had access yet) and lack of interop with email for notifications about changes, etc. I tried using it, and gave up. By the time it became widely available most of the early adopters gave up as well.