Sure they can, so long as they keep saying, "On the one hand, Google Wave is ambitious and could be amazing; on the other hand, it is currently an utter failure

Sure they can, so long as they keep saying, "On the one hand, Google Wave is ambitious and could be amazing; on the other hand, it is currently an utter failure." Well, I don't know about the bringing down all of Google bit, but my point is that they could certainly keep going with their balanced, insightless (should be a word), "on the one hand" approach.