Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by downandout on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:12PM (#12572129)

You're essentially saying that if Evan Spiegel had released Google Glass, it would have been successful because Evan is cool and Google is not. First, Evan isn't that cool - he tried to cut out and leave penniless his frat brother that actually came up with the idea for Snapchat [1]. While that may be a Jobs or Zuckerberg-type move, it certainly doesn't make him cool.

Second, Glass failed largely because of the invasive techno-snob feel to it - something that Spectacles has not overcome. It's one thing to have an iPhone in your pocket; it's quite another to shove your camera and microphone enabled face computer into the lives of literally everyone you interact with.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-lawsuit-video-deposi...

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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by ENGNR on Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:59PM (#12573885)

Glass could have taken the GoPro market, except GoPro did it better.

These are positioned more for celebrity events, where everyone understands they could be on camera. The film crew are celebrities too now, or celebrities start filming their interactions, so a big bright pair of these tells everyone 'hey I'm filming!' like a big camera would.

At private parties, I imagine it's largely the same thing, except that everyone there can only post onto Snapchat where it's lost to the sands of time.

The overtness and ephemeralness fixes both of the problems people had with 'glassholes'

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