Check discussions below those stories, you will find surprising amount of people who have only now learnt there is something called Google Wave. Also if you read at least few of those 700 stories you will notice that +90% of them mentions *poor or non-existing marketing* as one of 2-3 reasons Wave failed. Just yesterday I was telling my buddy who also works in IT (C programmer) that Google is killing Wave. He did not know what I am talking about.
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 12:56 am, Jaroslav Záruba <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm sorry, I know this is not the proper place for discussions about > Wave, > > but I can't resists to express my frustration about *Google* here. How > > possibly could Wave have had any decent number of users when no one knew > > about it? :( > > That's all, I'm sorry. > > Sure, no one ever heard of it; that's why everyone was begging for > invites in the early days and there are over 700 stories on its demise > available through Google News. > > The fact is that it wasn't really usable as the email/IM/word > processing replacement it was billed as, public waves got predictably > slow, and the really cool "see what the other person types while > they're typing it" feature that was innovative 20 years ago when ytalk > did it isn't really all that attractive if you're a bad typist or self- > edit after you type something you really shouldn't say. > > App Engine doesn't suffer from the same low adoption problem, and even > if it did, it's usefulness has nothing to do with the number of people > using it; no one was going to use Wave if their friends weren't on it > to talk to (and Buzz may suffer the same fate for the same reason). > No one cares if their friends are using the same webapp hosting as > they are, so GAE's growth isn't dependent on it's existing size. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
