When One Million People Are Not Enough
I was reading Lifehacker the other day and I read a post titled, On Google Wave and “Failed” Experiments”.
Long story short, it was discussing the reasons and implications of Google shutting down Wave.
Here is a snippet:
Why did Google kill Wave?
Wave simply didn’t attract the user base it should have. The tool didn’t explain itself well enough. The barriers to entry were just too high. The use cases weren’t clear. People didn’t get it. One million active users wasn’t enough in the Google universe (emphasis added).