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Re:Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed? by 0-_-0 on Sunday April 07, 2019 @06:44AM (#19596002)
> I think the reason Wave failed was due to poor marketing. I never truly understood what it was until it had already been killed off.

I wonder why Google didn't put a Wave section into Gmail, or a "take your email conversation to Wave" button for inter-Gmail conversations.

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Re:Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed? by gcb0 on Sunday April 07, 2019 @07:25AM (#19596135)
because that would have required a single product person, and Google have none.

Google only have failed engineers turned product manager. they live and die by some random metrics. the gmail PM would never accept anything there that reduced time spent (or some other random, disconnected from reality, success metric) by a second!

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