So today, Google announced they were done developing Google Wave. It’s hardly surprising to be honest with you.
I tried it about a year ago after I eventually got my hands on an invite, and my main crib was that it just didn’t work.
Most people are taking the view that in fact, the problem was there weren’t enough invites so not enough users. The product was in alpha mode and for me that was the problem. Even where I had people using it – and quite a few of my tech/geek/photog mates were there – it was essentially rubbish. It took forever to scroll, it took forever to respond. I got told “ah well it’s better in Chrome” to which I reply “way to go to alienate a lot of users”. I don’t and won’t use Chrome. For the most part FF does what I need; the few things like downloading the odd MS thingie – which doesn’t happen often through a browser – is done through Internet Explorer. Downloading another browser just for the sake of using a product that should be browser independent is a FAIL in my view.
Not sorry to see it gone. Still wondering how Twitter is going to make money since some of its options for advertising platform are gone.
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