Google Announces Death of Google Wave

[Pyroflea]

Is it just me, or is this the first thing Google's ever done that isn't successful?

 

[miloo]

too bad, i not even try before ~
may be they should shut down google talk first ? hehe

 

[jhansonxi]

It had some promise for collaborative development between remote teams and was used for some RPGs but for the general public it was sort-of redundant with social media sites like Facebook. To be useful all the participants needed Google accounts and a lot of people didn't want to bother.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]milktea[/nom]I still don't know what "Google Wave" is ?![/citation]
Google it.

 

[eddieroolz]

There was a humor site that posed questions: "Which is easier to understand, [X] or Google Wave?"

Some of the choices were: differential calculus, combinatorial game theory, your own existence, etc...

But what I'm trying to say is. Google Wave was probably too difficult to use.

 

[idisarmu]

What if we promote the hell out of it now? I would laugh if 100,000 people suddenly joined it and changed Google's mind.

 

[Guest]

google was targeting the wrong crowd with wave, had they made a sell to the business crowd this would have some serious clout, people in product development dream for the kind of functionality google wave had and in fact pay large sums of money for products that didn't even come close

google should have rolled it out to the business world first then figure out a consumer orientated use for it...

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Figured this would happen.

 

[Guest]

Lol I remember when this was dubbed as the "Outlook killer"

Guess that never happened.

 

[mavanhel]

It would've worked a lot better if they could've integrated Gmail into Wave. If people could use regular email with Wave there would be a much smoother transition.

 

[Fetal]

No i didnt. i never knew what wave was.

 

[DawnTreader]

the problem was i couldnt find how to get back to my wave(s) and use them some more. it was like once i used it and left i lost it. kinda dumb to drop it so quick, it worked really well and had a lot of features that were really cool. if i could go to my main google page and see a link for my waves... i would have kept using it.

 

[Tamz_msc]

The reason behind this is the fact that Wave was never really popularized to the extent of its capabilities and features.

 

[indran1412]

Google should invest in advertising more.

 

[Guest]

Never heard of it.. Now gonna Google it..

 

[Ciuy]

all i remember about wave is the announcement google is launching it, here on tom, now i see it end )

 

[Guest]

We did some research on why Google Wave failed. It shows that most people thought Wave had a lot of potential as a product, but was let down by the invitation only launch, usability issues and a lack of marketing by Google
http://bit.ly/bOVuJI

 

[Ransom22]

I really like Wave. I used it as much as possible. The problem I saw with it was that it wasn't a big enough difference from email or IMs that already existed. I can't wait to see them roll Wave tech into other apps.

 

[sykozis]

Google's marketing team is like AMD's.....completely non-existant.

If they want something to succeed....they need to actually promote it. Until now, I'd never even heard of Google Wave. Now, after reading this article...I've heard of it. But, exactly WTF is it and WTF is it used for?

 

[xerroz]

knew it was a big flop from the start...google should stick to search, that's all they good for. and they should enjoy it, in a few decades theyll be long gone