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Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by Bud »

First, before commenting on Apple Watch, it might be useful to get two things straight: first, the name of the fucking product, and second, the fact that it's by far the best-selling smartwatch in history, and an instant #2 in revenue in the watch market in general, behind only Rolex. So actually, it is a pretty big deal.

Second, how do you know whether this product does anything well? You don't. You're guessing. Odds are that it doesn't. Even if it does, it will be a joke and a failure for the same reasons that Google Glass was: you have to wear it, and it looks stupid, and it's shockingly, hilariously obtrusive and will creep people out.

So basically, you're wrong on all counts.

Snapchat should stick to the one thing it's good at: more plausibly-deniable ways to send dick pics.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by Splines »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #78

I can't be the only one who thinks this is going to eat GoPro's lunch, am I? Sure the initial version may not be as high quality as a GoPro and the time limit isn't as good but those are easy things to fix and they have a monstrous social network (something GoPro is sorta trying to break into). If anything kills GoPro it's something like this.

They'd need to have longer videos than 10s though. I enjoy watching GoPro videos on youtube and they are universally longer than 10s.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by josephpmay »

Being someone in the AR space, I find this a smart but risky move. If they're marked right and become "cool" I'll definitely have to cop a pair (and at $130 they're almost disposable). Spectacles will make it way easier for me to post to Snapchat at parties/concerts/etc without having to break out of the moment by taking my phone out. Strategy-wise, this is a Trojan horse into the AR hardware space, which Evan has wanted to get into for years. However, they fit way better into Snap's image of being a media company vs. directly launching an AR headset.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by dang »

Bud wrote: post #81

First, before commenting on Apple Watch, it might be useful to get two things straight: first, the name of the fucking product, and second, the fact that it's by far the best-selling smartwatch in history, and an instant #2 in revenue in the watch market in general, behind only Rolex. So actually, it is a pretty big deal. Second, how do you know whether this product does anything well? You don't. You're guessing. Odd…

This breaks the HN guideline about civility. That's the most important guideline, so please don't comment like this here. It wouldn't be hard to turn this post into a fine, substantive comment with a little cooling down and a little editing.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569256 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by tluyben2 »

josephpmay wrote: post #84

Being someone in the AR space, I find this a smart but risky move. If they're marked right and become "cool" I'll definitely have to cop a pair (and at $130 they're almost disposable). Spectacles will make it way easier for me to post to Snapchat at parties/concerts/etc without having to break out of the moment by taking my phone out. Strategy-wise, this is a Trojan horse into the AR hardware space, which Evan has wa…

The site seems blocked here (China) but if I read the comments, how is it AR? What more does it do than make a picture when you tap your temple? Is there any augmenting of reality going on, because then $130 would be 'free'.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by wingerlang »

stormbrew wrote: post #29
mozumder wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a dead-end product. People aren't going to wear this, because they don't want to creep out people by having a camera pointed at them all the time. This was the real problem with Google Glass. Also, everyone already carries around a camera in their smartphone. They aren't going to add another.

Comments like this always remind me of when camera phones were controversial and had to make a loud clicking noise when they took pictures so everyone knew it was happening. Fast forward 10-15 years and do you really know whether that person using their phone across from you on the bus isn't recording you? Nope.

Still the case in Japan iirc.
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