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Re:Tech Products Ahead of Their Time by Kique on Sunday June 19, 2011 @07:15PM (#2672249)
I feel Wave's problem wasn't the advanced tech, even my mom figured out how to use it pretty easily. The problem I had was that they made it invite only - for a service that needs other people using it for it to work effectively. There were months after I was invited that I still had no one to use it with. Then last summer at my internship we seriously used it all the time to communicate and share between everyone in the office... and then we found out it was being shut down.
Re:Tech Products Ahead of Their Time by solipsist on Sunday June 19, 2011 @08:01PM (#2672351)
But didn't Gmail start out as invite only? Look at how it turned out.
Re:Tech Products Ahead of Their Time by bvrlt on Sunday June 19, 2011 @08:29PM (#2672401)
But GMail doesn't require other people using GMail to be useful.