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Re:I've Spent $1500 on Google's Now Dead Glass Project by jdquey on Monday January 19, 2015 @08:43PM (#8915055)
While I agree that has to suck, isn't that the risk of being an early adopter?

Don't get me wrong, spending the money from Google feels like it should be a safe bet. But life is not always going to work as we want it to.

Additionally, as pointed out, it isn't the end for Glass, just the Explorer program.

Am I missing something here?

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Re:I've Spent $1500 on Google's Now Dead Glass Project by Sarkie on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @05:22AM (#8916260)
As far as I can tell, you aren't.

Our CTO bought some as he wanted to test the waters with an stock counting program, nearly all the emails I read were about it being a demo, tech idea, contact Google for help and all that stuff.

All it looks like, Google allowed people to try out new tech, it seemed to go well, but the tech isn't great yet, Android Wear took most of the concepts with Google Now, the future will involve making it better before its a consumer product.

It seems to me Google can't win. Ah well.

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