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I agree with you that it's a problem -- as the name indicates, there's a strong offline metaphor for e-mail.

But I think the way Wave will get around this is by being used first primarily not as a communications tool, but as a collaboration tool.

When you're a business or other team trying to get a project done, you use the tool that lets you work together most efficiently, and you don't care if it feels more like IM or email or a wiki (wikis, here's something with no offline equivalent and whose mainstream usage took off like a rocketship), and so that's how I think it will get traction.

From that point forward, as people use it as a collaboration tool, they'll seamlessly come to use it as a communication tool, and it might progressively replace email and IM (and social networking?), as I believe it can if it's indeed as good as it sounds.




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