Did you personally use Wave yourself? Were you able to convert anybody else to using it?
I had Wave access (Gadgets were my primary interest in the platform) - With no disrespect to the team working on it, Wave was a muddled, slightly schizophrenic app that solved problems that didn't exist by trying to merge a whole bunch of stuff that already did.
Getting other people to use it was hampered by the problem of succinctly explaining to them what it did, and the (for a consumer product, at least) unintuitive UI.
That said, failed apps are the most interesting apps. As a dev it had a huge influence on my approach to problems and the merits doing one thing really well.
We used it on my team at work and it was fantastic for design discussions and the like. Incidentally, while slack, dropbox paper etc all target this space somewhat successfully, I think there's still a lot that could be done here.
Getting a huge user base for wave would have been easy - simply incorporate its features gradually into gmail, and make it so that if you're in a threaded conversation with someone with a wave server you have all the extra features, otherwise it's just normal email.
This is in fact what I assumed google were up to, since they were huge on the email front and they described wave as the future of email.
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I had Wave access (Gadgets were my primary interest in the platform) - With no disrespect to the team working on it, Wave was a muddled, slightly schizophrenic app that solved problems that didn't exist by trying to merge a whole bunch of stuff that already did.
Getting other people to use it was hampered by the problem of succinctly explaining to them what it did, and the (for a consumer product, at least) unintuitive UI.
That said, failed apps are the most interesting apps. As a dev it had a huge influence on my approach to problems and the merits doing one thing really well.
We used it on my team at work and it was fantastic for design discussions and the like. Incidentally, while slack, dropbox paper etc all target this space somewhat successfully, I think there's still a lot that could be done here.
Getting a huge user base for wave would have been easy - simply incorporate its features gradually into gmail, and make it so that if you're in a threaded conversation with someone with a wave server you have all the extra features, otherwise it's just normal email.
This is in fact what I assumed google were up to, since they were huge on the email front and they described wave as the future of email.