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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 4948886" data-attributes="member: 1154">And <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/11/1430252" target="_blank">COBOL</a> is <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/14/cobol_california/" target="_blank">obsolete</a> and <a href="http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/6294.952975" target="_blank">unneeded</a>.The question isn't whether Wave will replace email (it won't) or chat (wtf is that even supposed to mean? IRC? IM? Face to face conversation?). The question is whether Wave will become popular enough to stay relevant, or if it will become a flash in the pan.If it were any company besides Google backing it, I'd say there was a 99% chance that in 5 years no one would even remember Wave. As it is, Google's going to be fighting an uphill battle just to get it to a critical mass of clients, both end users and other companies and websites.Nobody's perfect. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Pretty much. Email is very, very deeply ingrained not just into society, but into technology itself. Pretty much every website on the internet which is more than just a couple static HTML pages includes some form of automated email, for example. Identity confirmation, password recovery, mailing lists, reminders, notifications, etc.And that's just automated stuff. You think everyone on Earth is going to switch to Wave instead of email? PEOPLE STILL ****ING USE INTERNET MOTHER-****ING EXPLORER 6! (sorry, touchy subject). It's only in the last year or so that IE6 has started to decline to the point where serious websites can maybe, kinda, sorta start considering dropping support for it. And it's not actually to that point yet, as far as many people are concerned.So no, Wave isn't going to replace email any time soon.Heh, I could never figure out how to record on my VCR. But then again DVDs became popular while I was still in high school. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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