Comment by mixmax
16 years ago
The problem with useradoption of wave largely came from their invite-only strategy. It's a social tool that requires my friends to have an account for it to be of any use. If they don't have invites and can't join it's useless.
It's amazing that Google didn't see this.
That is dead-on the reason I stopped using it.
Woot! I got an invite.
Dang, none of my friends did.
Well... when can I get them one.
Forget about this. Meh. Back to email, IM, IRC and Twitter.
I managed to invite my friends, only to find one non-geek who didn't know how to install Chrome Frame, and couldn't run anything but IE on her work machine (corporate policy).
The overhead of using IM group chats when she was in the conversation, and Wave when it was the rest of us, was too much, so we just dumped Wave.