Wave goodbye
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- its_only_me
to google wave.
At least they were honest and admitted nobody wanted to use it. (if they had an invite that is)
- mg330
- ETM0
At least the core technology has been open sourced.
- ukit0
Nice headline
- ukit0
I think the problem was the way it was rolled out. They should have introduced it feature by feature within Gmail or something.
- ukit0
So, anyone got an invite?
- raf0
The problem was not the way it was rolled out.
The problem was it was shit, I said it when I saw it first.Nobody had a clue what it did, but surely too much.
It prolly tried to do what other tools did before, only in a more streamlined, clunky way, converting it into a "wall of internet".The UI was crap, not even your regular ugly-but-usable Google thing.
This, and the Optimus Maximus keyboard - shit concept, shit design. I was the only person on the planet NOT waiting for it and then like everybody else on the planet: I did not buy it.
- you are a really negative person, I am unsure if I have ever seen you respond positively.DrBombay
- Amen. But I can assure that you were not the only person "not" waiting for it.mnmlst
- Hahaha... I am actually a happy as Larry optimist. I'm just opinionated :)
raf - It just feels good to have been right against millions who saw future of interwebs in this crap :)raf
- raf0
Oh, someone found a use for it...
http://savegooglewave.com/
- ukit0
Well that's kind of what I meant, it was a mish mash of different ideas. Some had merit, other no. If you broke off idea by idea and introduced them one by one, they might have taken off.
- ukit0
Basically it was a vision of future e-mail. The vision could be improved, but killing it off so suddenly seems almost as dumb as the way they rolled it out.
- raf0
Look at this petition... looks like spam email harvester's dream and a complete mess to boot.
- locustsloth0
this thread title reminds me of this song at 1:48 (what a fuckin terrible video)
- ukit0
- Tanj0
Ugh, I liked some of the ideas behind Wave. It was fun and interesting to try out for about 15 minutes.
But, I wasn't sure if my waves would become public or to who and there was no obvious way to find public waves except from my friends. It was like this strange grey area between a message board and email without any clear purpose.
I wish they would just make it an awesome email/message board app instead of making something that isn't really either.
- inv0
I am a developer and I didnt even fucking understand what it was about. That was their number one flaw...
- ukit0
- dijitaq0
used it for about 10 minutes. never came back since.