This is so irritating. Why do people expect new products to be infinitely scalable out of the gates. Of course they're going to show slowdown during a flash event. Because of people like this, great projects like Google Wave get shut down, and all because of people's irrational expectations. "It doesn't do everything... I'm never using this again." Startup projects grow slowly and organically. Just because it's coming from a big company, why do people expect it to be totally different.