Crossing the Chasm had a distinction between applications and platforms. The latter are harder to sell, but scale horizontally, leading to massive adoption. Pot

Crossing the Chasm had a distinction between applications and platforms. The latter are harder to sell, but scale horizontally, leading to massive adoption. Potentially. Wave seems to be a platform. It needs a killer app in order to be adopted. Often, this happens through hitching a ride on some bigger change, like faster hardware. There are plenty of great technologies that never got adopted. It actually seems common for a second-rate but good-enough version of a technology to win, because actual adoption is a huge challenge in itself. Perhaps a greater challenge than creating the technology in the first place. In pg-land, it's the "people want" part of "make something people want". There's great opportunity here for the one who can apply Wave to alleviate a felt pain.