Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by BinaryIdiot on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:52AM (#12569651)

I can't be the only one who thinks this is going to eat GoPro's lunch, am I? Sure the initial version may not be as high quality as a GoPro and the time limit isn't as good but those are easy things to fix and they have a monstrous social network (something GoPro is sorta trying to break into).

If anything kills GoPro it's something like this.

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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by Splines on Saturday September 24, 2016 @02:16AM (#12569688)

They'd need to have longer videos than 10s though. I enjoy watching GoPro videos on youtube and they are universally longer than 10s.

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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by nip on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:41AM (#12569917)

That's just a software limitation that could be bypassed if the device gets jailbroken, redirecting the creepiness from the company to a single user (who decided to jailbreak to take longer videos).

If enough people start jailbreaking their Spectacles, Snapchat good could then get rid of this limitation.

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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by ellisdewalt on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:08AM (#12570000)

The lenses aren't anything near that of a gopro. Name an app company that has gotten distribution of a hardware product.

If anything, the goal of this article is simply to have 3rd parties clone this idea.

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