Google Wave development discontinued, Waveboard sinks

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I agree with a troll?

Good bye and good riddance to an ill-defined and unnecessary waste of Google's resources. Don't get comfortable, Buzz— you're next.

Problem with wave was just a lack of any integration with existing apps and email. Can't expect everyone to work so hard to drag everyone else on board to use something. I tried, and I like the idea. Just that wanted it to integrate my emails and social networks. Then it would be perfect.

better headline - Google Wave Goodbye :P

I used it for like ten minutes, didnt get it and havent used it...now to get that stupid Google Buzz gone too.

I completely agree that Wave is "ahead of it's time". It's definitely not a legacy technology, but we have no idea how far "ahead" it is.

If it's so far ahead, surely no company in their right mind would let it hobble forward until it's accepted?

Wave is a framework, and should be treated as one. On it's face alone, it's nearly worthless. As the backend to something else (Google Docs Collaboration is absolutely spectacular), it's a serious winner.

Google's failure to realize this amuses me. The STANDING OVATION it got at I/O 2009 is amusing too.
I'm not calling Developers stupid, because I already made my point.
Wave is not an app all it's own, it's a wonderful framework for collaboration, and bolsters established webapps (and apps in general) significantly.

I think Google presented one thing, and Developers saw another. The amount of work put into Wave itself was in the wrong direction. It should never have been an App all it's own.

Wave was a really unique product, but I think there were two major faults with it:

1. Little integration into the email paradigm. In fact, Google fatal flaw was insisting that waves were a completely separate paradigm from emails. Yet their own Gmail already had many of the features they tried to brand as "revolutionary" (combining by thread, message board style layout, etc.). Compared to some other email clients, these might have been new; to heavy Gmail users, the comparative advantage simply wasn't there.

2. Lack of focus. The first thing people wanted to know about Wave was "what is it and what does it do?" It wasn't really email, nor IM, nor a shared document. It was a little bit of everything. But what could you use it for? Again, that's tough. Sure you could use it for collaboration on a paper, but the format wasn't exportable elsewhere...so Google Docs was already better to use than wave. You could use it to chat quickly with people, but that's what IMs were for. Again, the comparative advantage over other currently-existing technology wasn't there.

Did you completely miss the discussion of the iOS app?