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Why Wave Failed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the exciting-thursday-morning dept.

Florian Wardell submitted a little discussion piece about Why Wave Failed. He blames marketing and the staged rollout. Personally I think that what killed it was that I should have transparently been able to see my gmail inside wave. Requiring a separate window guarantees that I wouldn't use it regularly. Had I been able to read my regular mail in the same UI, I might have been tempted to use it more.

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  1. Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Requiring a separate window guarantees that I wouldn't use it regularly.

    Funny, I feel the same way about websites whose style sheets involve great big floating things that don't go away when I scroll down. :)

    (Serves me right for reading TFA...)

  2. Save Wave by curtix7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    There should be a movement to save it if for no other reason than it rhymes.

  3. I've Heard of It a Few Times by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. he is probably right. I never heard of the thing before now (though I probably would not have been interested).

    CC.

    I'm not quite sure what you're talking about we've covered it a few times.

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    1. Re:I've Heard of It a Few Times by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

      Read that aloud in your best Shatneresque cadence :-)

  4. Re:I Guess I Don't Exist Then ... by imakemusic · · Score: 4, Funny

    It took so long to render that I never saw the bottom line.

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  5. Re:Subliminal messaging by EdZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny, I never noticed that happening before.