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Re:Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2 by rosstex on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:38PM (#15012631)
Spectacles, the Juicero of photography.
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Re:Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2 by Spivak on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:27PM (#15013091)
You at least have to give them points for actually trying something different.

Juicero was just an overengineered scam.

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Re:Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2 by wutbrodo on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:45PM (#15013282)
Not that I'm a fan of Google Glass, but how do the Spectacles qualify as "something different" when Glass came out like 5 years ago? You can say that Spectacles are well-executed, but claiming that they're somehow "trying something different" makes no sense to me.
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Re:Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2 by uncoder0 on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:33PM (#15013632)
The only quality they share with Glass is that they have a camera, you wear them on your face and they tether to your phone. All of which had been done before Glass.
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Re:Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2 by wutbrodo on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:23PM (#15032222)
Uh yea, isn't that the entirety of the product? What is the "something different" that you're imagining?
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