Comments on: What Happened To Google Wave?

By: Robairone

Robairone — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:11:51 +0000

The lack of a well functioning mobile app makes it useless for many in my opinion. You would think Google would have realized that as an integral key of Wave to succeed it would have to be mobile & functional.

I am so disappointed. I had such high hopes for this concept…

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:30:47 +0000

Wave has the same problem as the iPad – it doesn’t fully replace anything that I already use. It adds a few features that each of today’s common tools do not have, but it doesn’t make any of them obsolete or noticeably lame.

Notice that Buzz was integrated into GMail rather than being its own service – pretty unusual as new Google apps usually get their own URL space. Perhaps this time Google finally realized that 5-10 cool features does not equal an entirely new product.

By: Jason Wagner

Jason Wagner — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:15:33 +0000

Yeah.. maybe it just needs more time. I guess time will tell.

By: Tim Ruijters

Tim Ruijters — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:21:42 +0000

Maybe organisations/ people are not used yet to collaborate online. I see a lot of people sending excelsheets to each other via mail. The technology is very young, give it a few years.

By: Collaboration Cathy

Collaboration Cathy — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:33:56 +0000

I think Wave’s problem is that it’s somewhat in the middle – not quite a consumer or business product. It doesn’t really bring consumers any “cool” socialsey features, and its not structured enough to be a business product.

Moreover, although it brings great benefits over email, toppling this age old technology is a tall order.