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Re:Google Climbs to New Heights of Arrogance with Wave by tptacek on Thursday May 28, 2009 @10:09PM (#631388)
The GigaOm article isn't about what you want it to be about, but that doesn't make it a bad article. They write on their terms, not yours. Those terms are: where does Wave fit in with the Google ecosystem? What's likely to happen to it? Is it worth an investment of time an interest?

The thesis of the article is that the Wave pitch is arrogant. The evidence mustered is that Google has a poor track record of weaponizing innovation, and has little to say right now about what they'd actually do with Wave, but is prepared to say that Wave is more important than SharePoint, and maybe SMTP.

I don't have to agree with this thesis to see that it's worth considering.

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Re:Google Climbs to New Heights of Arrogance with Wave by edmccaffrey on Thursday May 28, 2009 @10:21PM (#631401)
"The GigaOm article isn't about what you want it to be about. . .Those terms are: where does Wave fit in with the Google ecosystem? What's likely to happen to it? Is it worth an investment of time an interest?"

That's actually exactly what I thought it was about. Your comment, applied to this article, is the perfect explanation of why it is terrible: The presentation isn't about what they want it to be about, but that doesn't make it an arrogant presentation. Google was not doing a product presentation and GigaOm didn't understand it, and got upset when Google dismissed questions irrelevant to what they were presenting.

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Re:Google Climbs to New Heights of Arrogance with Wave by kragen on Friday May 29, 2009 @06:28AM (#631830)
The GigaOm article is a long whine that they got to see a tech presentation instead of a business presentation. At a developer conference. I'll try to remember this the next time I want to whine about how I got a business presentation instead of a tech presentation at a business conference.

I don't understand how "not about business" equates to "arrogant".

As for SharePoint — is there anything less important than SharePoint? Maybe one of my socks or something. Or one of my less important GitHub projects.

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