Yes, so you didn't get it, too. Wave isn't the sandbox you've seen on the web. If i remember correctly, the webclient didn't even use the "real protocol" but some hacked-together protocol buffers for demonstration purposes. Not sure about today, but when the beta started there wasn't even an official client/server protocol. It was still under discussion[1]. Sadly, the world never saw the "real" Wave, with server-to-server communication, different clients, etc.

[1] https://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/...

The front-end? The technical demo? The least existing part of Google Wave? If that's all, it's nothing like Google Wave.

Edit: I should point out that if you don't understand what buster or I am talking about, don't worry. A lot of people don't. It's Google's failed marketing of Wave that did this.

Basically, people thought Google Wave was MS Outlook, or Gmail. It wasn't. Wave was essentially email, comments, chat, communication, etc. Once you start understanding everything it could do, and understand that everyone already knew how to use Wave, you really started to appreciate what they were trying to do.

Look at it at a higher level. Convore, to a certain extent is like Wave.

To me that is like saying a glider is like the space shuttle. No disrespect to Convore, but comparing it to Wave is naive.