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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:13PM (#11307216)
Honestly, I do think Google is really afraid of their perception problem. The last thing Google needs is people thinking data collection is going to lead somewhere bad.

I think that's a lot of why they really sunk the Google Glass project after the privacy backlash started appearing heavily in the media.

I loved my Glass, I still would prefer it over smartwatches sold today. But now it's kinda abandoned.

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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by adwf on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:16PM (#11307674)
The annoying thing is that Glass would've still been a great product without the camera. All they needed to do was release a cameraless version first, then evolve from there. But instead they came across as some sort of weird surveillance device - which is a perception that Google is always struggling with.
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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:48PM (#11307895)
That was always the odd thing, it wasn't really a good surveillance device. Not covert, lol. And the battery is unreasonably small for doing video.

I actually was angry I couldn't turn off auto-upload, and never used the camera. Would've been more than happy to have a model without it.

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