This is very sad. I thought it was a great product but suffered from lack of good marketing AND positioning (as in it wasn't good enough to do what Google wanted it to, and it was never marketed adequately to fill a niche). In particular:
- It isn't a good replacement for email because there is no integration with gmail or other established mail systems.
- It isn't good enough for creating documents (blogs, company documents) because there was no security (ability to make something read-only to certain people).
- It isn't good enough as a collaboration tool because after a few people edit a Wave, it looks so confusing - you lose all notion of it being a single consistent document because it looks too much like a complicated chat.
I also wonder if it was just too heavy in terms of Javascript and network processing.
Either way, this is a big shame - I was very much looking forward to Wave taking a greater part in my tech life.
This is very sad. I thought it was a great product but suffered from lack of good marketing AND positioning (as in it wasn't good enough to do what Google wanted it to, and it was never marketed adequately to fill a niche). In particular:
- It isn't a good replacement for email because there is no integration with gmail or other established mail systems.
- It isn't good enough for creating documents (blogs, company documents) because there was no security (ability to make something read-only to certain people).
- It isn't good enough as a collaboration tool because after a few people edit a Wave, it looks so confusing - you lose all notion of it being a single consistent document because it looks too much like a complicated chat.
I also wonder if it was just too heavy in terms of Javascript and network processing.
Either way, this is a big shame - I was very much looking forward to Wave taking a greater part in my tech life.