[mjevans]

It's been too long so I only vaguely remember Wave.

It was a little too early to market. Common PCs weren't quite good enough, and common Internet was very not good enough.

The UI also didn't quite help shape normal user workflows enough so it was hard for an average user to just pick it up and be productive.

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I think I'd like to see some merger of 'checklists', 'events' (calendar / etc), and 'conversations' much more like Slack channels where each new topic is a thread / email chain.

[yesbabyyes]

They have rolled out something along these lines by integrating the chat in Google Meet with Google Chat (or whatever the Gmail looking interface is called).

It was a huge surprise when the whole company suddenly got notifications about chat messages in various meetings they were invited to (but wasn't participating in) as well as messages sent after the meeting was closed.

That said, I think they are on to something here and I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to make some inroads. It will take a long time though given how much of an organization's operations are running on Slack.