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February 12th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Good post, though I disagree with one part. I don’t think it’s the fact of a product being from Google that means people have high expectations right from the start; I think it’s more that it’s a product in a field where there are already several big established players.
When Google comes out with a completely new idea – and sticks “Beta” on it
– I think people do give it more space. Google Wave is a good example of that: in its early forms it was pretty buggy with some obvious missing features, but pretty much all the commentary I saw all was based on the expectation that this would improve and was then trying to second-guess what Wave would be like once that had happened.
February 12th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Google seem to have gone from taking something over-complicated and making it simple to taking something simple and making it over-complicated.
Why would I use buzz when I use twitter? Because i only want my friends with gmail to see it? Smart move.
Buzz very quickly became a hidden folder in my gmail – I didn’t ask for it, I don’t need it.
Wave – so that really did exist – I just thought maybe I’d eaten some bad cheese.