Google puts Wave product out to pasture, discontinuing development

By on Aug 5, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Services August 5, 2010

Yesterday, Google announced that it would discontinue development of its futuristic real-time communication tool known as Wave. The post reads:

Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.

The post continues by saying the Wave taught the company quite a bit, and that Google was proud of the Wave team for pushing the limits of computer science and the browser. RIP Google Wave 2009 — 2010.

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  • Choco Taco

    I can’t wait until Android gets put out to pasture. Garbage OS.

    • vinay

      Do us a favor and dont visit any tech blogs

    • Chut Pata

      Yup. Damned commies giving things for free, and thereby defying direct command of God. Things should be sold for outrageous prices in the spirit of capitalism, and that is what God says.

      • onlydisagreewithidiots

        Uhhh, they get paid by ads moron. Google isn’t Jesus. It’s a company that makes money. Even the government doesn’t give shit out for free, it gets paid for by the taxpayers.

        Grow up and enter the real world before posting comments that are so ignorant that they make everyone dumber.

      • JustMe

        Dude, don’t you understand the concept of sarcasm? How could you possibly take Chut’s comment as being anything BUT sarcasm?

        Seems like YOU need to grow up, relax, and allow people their opinions.

    • http://World Bryan

      android is a great OS. I bet you never touched the damn thin!

  • you_monster

    I still do not know what google wave is.

    • John

      Neither did Google.

  • Tim

    My guess is the guts of this will be added to their rumored Google.me social networking site.

  • arirang

    discontinued to the public, yes, but it’s likely going strong within google’s own business enterprise. i know many fortune 500 enterprises are itching and looking to adopt and deploy [and sell] analogous unified communication/messaging suite and framework. besides what did it cost them? not much since they were offering it for free. they gave a sliver of their vast distributed computing power for a tool/model that will evolve on the desktop- and rack-space.

    the public was and is their lab.

  • Mr. Bill

    Wave,.. Buh bye!

  • Jarrett

    I don’t understand. This product was very easily understood by all users and so well received by the tech consuming world. First they killed the Nexus One which had huge sales. Then they kill wave that was presumably used by even more people. I just don’t get Google, why would you put money into products that turn out to be HUGELY successful and then just axe them?

    • WalterSobchak

      Motorola ROKR
      Technically speaking the iPhone is not Apple’s first cell phone, in 2005 it partnered with Motorola for the ROKR phone.

      Apple Pippin
      it was released in a market already dominated by Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64. Only 42,000 of these ill fated devices were sold before a silent death.

      Macintosh TV
      Reasons for its failure were its inability display television feeds in desktop window and mediocre graphical performance.

  • Android

    Old News, BGR, Old News.

    • Luke

      Who cares if it’s old news, it may not be for the normal people that don’t read the entire Internet daily…

  • iphony

    i used it, stll like it though :( , too bad they discontinue it

  • ucmanup

    ney

  • B.M.

    surprised it took them this long. I could have told them on launch day that people want more options in gmail, they don’t want a whole new email service. Spend the time making gmail more rich in terms of how a user can configure it, don’t give us a product which will compete with my already-solid gmail address. It’s the address that’s sticky stupids, not the gmail technology.

    Had Google allowed me to choice to use Wave technology WITH my current gmail address, and allowed me to switch back if I didn’t like it, THEN they might have had a shot. As it is, Google, you did the Google Wavers a disservice by providing the wrong test in the first place.

    Google Wave grade: inconclusive
    Google Mgt Grade: Fail

  • MikeD

    Wave absolutely failed. No dis, just fact. At least they had the sense to pack it up. Rather than let it bleed them. And nothing is stopping them from bringing it back when the time is right or it greatly improved.

    They did the right thing and said lets move on to something else.

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