They didn't just say sorry. They informed users and tried to fix the problem. That's more than a lot of companies would bother doing in this case.

Why don't you just incorporate the first couple of letters of the site used into the password?

The progress is having your data accessible from any computer. The example given in one of the Chrome OS promotional videos was having your machine break and picking up a new one, logging in, and continuing your work like nothing happened.

That's not true at all.

Communicating with people is a waste of time?

Just like there are advantages to email over postal mail (speed, ability to easily send to multiple people, etc), there are advantages to Wave over email (the ability to see what the others are saying as they type, gadgets and robots that can be embedded into the Wave, etc).

People seem to be dismissing it before actually checking it out just because what they have seems good enough. That kind of thinking is not really good for technology.

I can already send data through the US Postal Service, so what exactly makes email worth my time?

This is supposed to be for devices that don't have ports (small netbooks running ChromeOS or something) and/or use web apps. Google wants everyone to easily be able to print from Google Docs or some other web based software and not have to think about the hardware involved.

There are definitely privacy concerns, but it's not supposed to be like lpr or Samba sharing.

It doesn't really have tabs on the screen. It has different windows that you can switch to.

What makes you say that? I'm sure Google is using something similar to their Google Web Toolkit to write the applications in Java and have the code compiled into JavaScript. When you do that, the fact that the browser is interpreting JavaScript really doesn't matter. All the development and organization is done in a language that IS suited to large-scale application development.

So... women don't know what they want. I thought that was a well known fact.

How do you know data plans are profitable?

Wow. You sound a little like a crazy paranoid person.

You don't have to wait for the picture to load to do your search. Notice how the search box comes up before the picture?

I've been wondering about this... I use IE8 at work at I've been noticing the same thing. Just now I decided to check out the site in Chrome, and I'm still seeing the same colored dots and widgets all over.