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If heaven is in the clouds, then I don't think they are hanging out in the cloud anymore.

Since they came from there originally, I doubt they'd end up back at Google Cloud. Maybe AWS? I just hope they don't get sent to, well, the bad place.. Azure..

I miss Reader much more than I miss Wave.

Wave helped sour me to hyped ideas. Reader made me bitter to even attempted google+. To the point that i forget google+ still exists quite commonly. I almost feel guilty that I don't know more about it.

Nobody misses wave, lots of people miss reader. You can take the number of reader re-launches after Google shuttered it as proof of that.

I miss what Wave could have been. Some of the core ideas had promise, but never really quite hit the mark.

Yes, that's true. But even at the time Google had a reputation for throwing a lot of stuff out there and then pulling the rug out from under them if they did not develop traction fast enough and a thing like Wave did not look like it would be a fast grower. So I told myself I'd really get into it if it lasted 5 years. This 'try to not be first' attitude has definitely cost me some opportunities over the years but it has also saved me betting on horses that ended up as also-rans many times.