As I found when I spent a couple of months wearing Glass, it has a number of really useful aspects - in particular the camera. There is however one huge disadvantage - it makes its users look daft, and that meant that it was never going to appeal to a wide audience.
January 15, 2015
Google gives up on Glass.
"Google has tried to present this announcement as just another step in the evolution of an amazing innovation. But make no mistake - Google Glass is dead, at least in its present form."
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it makes its users look daft, and that meant that it was never going to appeal to a wide audience.
Can't have nerds looking dorky.
Would it being "useful" overcome how damned ridiculous you look wearing it?
No?
Then c'est la vie.
I love the idea of Google Glass as a concept.
But I don't own Google Glass, because it's too expensive, and the functionality isn't in keeping with the cost.
"it makes its users look daft"
As compared with looking daft when you stumble into a parking meter because you're too engrossed in your phone's screen to see where you're going?
1st Generation.
They will get better.
Remember the first Palm Pilot?
Glass isn't dead. You don't kill products by giving them their own division headed up by one of the big name engineering talents in the company.
What they did kill was the selling a pre-beta product that was never meant for consumers, but was meant for developers and journalists.
It's amazing that Google managed to get people to PAY for this not-ready-for-prime-time gear.
"Daft" is such a nice way to say "tard".
There's another huge disadvantage: The probably always-on camera.
With a cell phone, you have to point it at a person to take a photo or video. They can refuse and walk away.
But with Google Glass, for all anyone knows, you're always taking pictures and videos of everyone you're meeting on the street or on the bus. They don't know if you've turned the camera off. And that's, frankly, a bit disconcerting to people.
GoPro seems to have a much better answer for those who want to capture their life in pictures.
First, it was the avian oven. Now, it's the anti-social computing device. It's remarkable that the former passed first inspection. However, the second does have a place, in isolated cubicles, especially for sales personnel. They would pack them like sardines if they could; and Google Glass is perfectly suited for that purpose.
The fundamental difference between Glass & GoPro is that nobody knew if Glass had the camera on.
Next up, Apple watch.
It's a put up. There is no Google Glass, and there never was. They finally decided to put the joke to bed.
"It's amazing that Google managed to get people to PAY for this not-ready-for-prime-time gear."
-- As a gamer, I can tell you, people will pay for all sorts of not-ready-for-prime-time stuff.
Shawn L. said...
It's amazing that Google managed to get people to PAY for this not-ready-for-prime-time gear.
This is known as the Windows OS business model.
If someone shows up at one of my house parties wearing Google Glass, they're getting beer thrown in their face.
Daftness be damned.
Just give me a pair of googles for the car and a pair to wear at the airport so I can record my pleasant "FEMALE SUBJECT REFUSING RADIATION! FEMALE OPT-OUT, GATE 22!!" experiences with the TSA.
These encounters often include the 20-30 minute period I am generally made to wait as I stand shoeless before a curious and shocked flock of onlooker sheep. And let the google glass camera roll when the glove-snapping body dance begins. As for the privilege of recording these TSA Einsteins "calibrating" these radiation-dosing machines, I'd give my eye teeth. Unfortunately, this is something never before seen in the wilds of the airport.
Capturing on video the "encounters" between citizens and police or other government authorities is anything but daft. But it must be done to preserve the new adage: Whatever it takes to keep us safe!
Some of us still prize the right to be left alone. Let's help law enforcement officers come to value their privacy as well, by recording them in the course and scope of their official duties as actors of the state.
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