What problems does Google Wave solve?
What problems does Google Wave solve?
Focuses more on the big picture, less on small details that have been getting most of the attention, like live typing.
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Features like that can be dangerous because they are legitimately very useful during the app’s gestation, when exciting demos are a key survival trait; but then they can’t be removed later on because they’re so well-known, even if they turn out to be useless. Sometimes these features aren’t actually harmful to the user experience, they just make the code more complex and harder to maintain. Instant typing is both, unfortunately.
Jens Alfke, one of the developers of iChat 1.0, on real-time typing in Google Wave
Indeed, Wave is so packed with features of marginal utility it’s easy to forget it was invented by Google. Here was a company that once prided itself on simplicity; Wave is so bloated it could have come from Microsoft.
What if iPhone had… “Springboard Exposé” (via oceanobservations)
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