Wave goodbye to Google Wave!

Google's blog post on Wave: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

My feedback to Google (which they probably already know):

As you will likely read in many articles about this, I didn't understand how to use Google Wave in my daily life. I watched the YouTube videos (not all of the cuz they were so long!), and was in awe of the functionality and drooled at the possibilities. However, when it came down to trying it out, the main thing that kept me from using it was the fact that it wasn't linked to my Gmail. That is, I didn't get a chance to play around with it on a regular basis because I did not have any "data" (i.e. communications like email, IM, etc) to play around with. 

I would message other Wave users who didn't really check it on an ongoing basis. What's the point in that? No real conversations can be had with that. Plus, dealing with existing email and IM accounts is already time consuming, now I have to manage another set of them?

I understand that it would've been a drastic change to make the existing Gmail like Wave (usability wise and probably back-end technology wise), however it's just as hard to get user adoption when users just don't use this new system. Plus, the other factor was that Gmail was good enough for my communication needs (plus linked to my smartphone).

It was a nice effort.

Perhaps instead of making a revolutionary new communication tool, Google should just incrementally evolve Gmail with similar Wave functionality.