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This presumes that Wave will be compelling enough to IE users that they will finally install a different browser. My prediction: it won't be. But I hope I'm wro
by mrshoe 17y ago
This presumes that Wave will be compelling enough to IE users that they will finally install a different browser. My prediction: it won't be. But I hope I'm wrong.
- unalone 17y agoGoogle is on a roll right now. Wave looks great. The question is if it'll become as prevalent as Gmail or as ignored as Google Docs.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoWhy do you say Google docs is ignored? It's unglamorous and low key, but I use it heavily, as do many of my friends.
- Zev 17y agoI've used Google docs once, a few months ago. And that one time, everyone was stepping on everyone else's edit. The end result was making it read only for everyone except one or two people to edit. Personally, I'm not ignoring it. I'm intentionally choosing not to use it.
- unalone 17y agoIt's used, but it's not the enormous wave that Gmail was. There's no way Google Wave is ignored, but there's every chance it becomes useful only to power users and niche groups, just like how Google Docs isn't viewed as a competitor to Microsoft Word.
- trezor 17y agoNot that anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, but I know nobody who uses Google docs. Absolutely nobody. In fact the only place I see this mentioned as a real competitor to anything is on reddit and HN. Whoever I know who needs a Office-suite and doesn't want or have access to Microsoft Office just installs OpenOffice.org instead. There is simply no way to claim that Google Docs has hit the mainstream, not even among so called power-users. I very much respect Google Docs on the technical merits of actually making it work, but I just prefer a local desktop application for this kinda work.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoGoogle docs isn't a replacement for office apps, in my opinion. The main benefit, to my mind anyway, is that it allows for super easy collaboration across the internet. It takes so few clicks to create a document and share it with a few people.