Re:Why Google Glass Broke
by drzaiusapelord on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:43AM
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>And, they took out one of the neatest features: facial recognition.
Care to clarify who "they" is here? Last I heard, the local governments were going to pass legislation banning this feature. Google was more or less strong-armed by the state.
Yeah, its fun to give an overly-negative review of 1st gen dev platforms, but the reality is that a lot of whats happened with glass was more or less planned to happen. It was a test platform and part of google's largest wearables initiative. Glass may not even pan out, especially considering what MS is doing right now with AR, but it helped laid the groundwork for making wearables socially acceptable and helped make tech reviwers understand that wearables are going to be big. Glass opened the door for my Moto360. The Moto360 is opening the door for a million other things. I see Glass like owning a Vic-20; a largely unimpressive computer. The Macintosh was released a short three years later. Lets not piss on early adopters and test platforms too much. Glass was never going to be a consumer product.
>$1500
Then don't buy into the program. Its not a consumer product its a test/dev platform. It blows my mind people think they were paying for some hot new product. No, you were paying to be part of a dev program.
Also "google quality" is pleasant enough. I paid next to nothing, compared to other smartphones, for my N4 and N5. Those are fine phones.
Care to clarify who "they" is here? Last I heard, the local governments were going to pass legislation banning this feature. Google was more or less strong-armed by the state.
Yeah, its fun to give an overly-negative review of 1st gen dev platforms, but the reality is that a lot of whats happened with glass was more or less planned to happen. It was a test platform and part of google's largest wearables initiative. Glass may not even pan out, especially considering what MS is doing right now with AR, but it helped laid the groundwork for making wearables socially acceptable and helped make tech reviwers understand that wearables are going to be big. Glass opened the door for my Moto360. The Moto360 is opening the door for a million other things. I see Glass like owning a Vic-20; a largely unimpressive computer. The Macintosh was released a short three years later. Lets not piss on early adopters and test platforms too much. Glass was never going to be a consumer product.
>$1500
Then don't buy into the program. Its not a consumer product its a test/dev platform. It blows my mind people think they were paying for some hot new product. No, you were paying to be part of a dev program.
Also "google quality" is pleasant enough. I paid next to nothing, compared to other smartphones, for my N4 and N5. Those are fine phones.