The first iphones and ipods were stunning for their time; they changed the industry and people would wait for hours on end in line at stores. It seems like a reach to compare these glasses to that.

I'm not comparing actual devices. I'm comparing how large they were when they were first released. The original iPod and iPhones were bricks compared to what the latest/last versions and it didn't have a touch screen and cameras.

The point is, the size of new technology tend to shrink fast.

You are incorrect about the original iPhone. It was marginally thicker but it had smaller width and height than current iPhones.

yeah and the 16 Pros got even bigger this year!

The first iphone famously had a touch screen, and it was smaller than the current iphone 16.

The original iPod might have been a brick compared to the iPod nano, but it still wasn't that big. I don't think many people today would be upset to carry an original iPod. It was much smaller than the discman sized devices it was competing with.

The original iPhone was one of the smallest iPhones ever made. It did nothing but get bigger over time. If you want to compare the modern smart phone to a Zack Morris phone, or the bag phones that came before it, that would be a better way to go if the argument is size reduction over time.

Perhaps but they weren't the first in the category. Apples iGlasses will probably be sleeker.

And most new tech is garbage that quickly dies. Don't get correlation and causation mixed up here.

True! But society can move backwards sometimes, todays smartphones are growing and and each generation of BEV gets heavier!

Something in the collective unconscious is screaming "put the biggest brick you can make in my hand and give me a main battle tank to go to TJ's." and industry is happy to oblige!

Maybe wearing a gigantic ugly thing on your face that beeps and has flashing lights isn't such a far step