Alea: You asked, "What was the open channel for Wave?" As if somewhere in the complex process of making, marketing and selling a product, there was some kind of blockage, if I am not misreading your meaning.
It seems to me if the CEO sets a course, say pursues a strategy to take his company into the market and it fails, IMO, it is bad form to then blame the market in any way, i.e. "the market doesn't get it."
It seems commonsense to me, if a CEO or CEOs pick a strategy for success and it continually fails, it is a failure for which the CEO must bear full responsibility.
I am still of the notion Wave products were so bad, no amount of tweaking could make them marketable--then there was Wave's terrible reputation as a company always short-cutting and getting caught, constantly stretching to make folks think it was bigger, better and far more important than the nothing it actually was--all those press releases announcing one tech titan after another was signing with Wave--with one tiny catch--no money would change hands--at least on the part of the big corp.
If the product didn't ax the sale, the reputation of the company selling them 'trust' might, if any looked into its sordid background.
Am I reading you wrong, big guy? Am I again seeing things too cynically, too negatively?
Fondly--Blue
