My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price
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#2Unrelated sidenote: Posted the exact same thing about half an hour earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5617110) but didnt get an upvote. Not that i care since i rarely submit new stuff, but HN is strange sometimes ;)
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#3The success of this totally depends on price. Each audience I asked at the end of my presentations "who would buy this?" As the price got down to $200 literally every hand went up. At $500 a few hands went up. This was consistent, whether talking with students, or more mainstream, older audiences.
$500 standalone and $200 with some kind of carrier contract? (or is glass meant to be an accessory to a phone? maybe the battery would be inadequate to take on many of the phone features?)
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#4Interesting he feels so strongly about that... but then again, he always kinda does. Not sure what to make of it. I used to follow Scoble's blog back when he was evangelizing for Microsoft, but he's abandoned his mediums so often and so vociferously that I sort of lost track. Is Google Plus his latest platform now?
Personally, I'm consciously trying _not_ to get stuck with a single company's ecosystem, so a lot of the advantages Scoble mentions simply don't relate to me. But then again, I never really ventured past search and Gmail... is the rest of Google's services really that good to justify buying into?
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#5Wasn't Robert Scoble The Great Antihyper? Everything he hypes will eventually fail?
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#6I find it interesting that social cues like flipping the glasses up while in the bathroom are becoming normal.
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#7The success of this totally depends on price. Each audience I asked at the end of my presentations "who would buy this?" As the price got down to $200 literally every hand went up. At $500 a few hands went up. This was consistent, whether talking with students, or more mainstream, older audiences. $500 standalone and $200 with some kind of carrier contract? (or is glass meant to be an accessory to a phone? maybe the…
>>or is glass meant to be an accessory to a phone?
I ask myself the same question. It would make sense to connect via Bluetooth and let the phone do the heavy lifting (utilizing the available cores and the faster data rate). I am so looking forward to Glass, but I don't want another smartphone with another contract.
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#9Why is the picture quality so bad?
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#10Some observations:
From what he wrote it seems to me like he only gauged the reactions of technically-oriented people. Of course tech people are going to be pretty excited about this, more-so than the average Joe.
He also seems to feel very very strongly about this. I don't think many people feel the same strength of opinion towards Glass.
He's right about the price. If they could cut it down to subsidized-smartphone levels, people will be more open to trying it.
It's certainly cool and most people will probably think so (hence everyone wanting to check it out), but thinking it's cool and actually incorporating it in daily life is very different. Of course Robert is an early adopter so he was more open to the notion of having something like that on his face at all times, but I don't think many people will be as open to it.
He notes that its a more social device because you don't have to look away to use it. Well, I've also tried Glass and you do have to look up and to the right to use the device. The actual display is in your peripherals so if someone is talking to you and you wanted to use Glass, they would most certainly notice because your eyes would drift to your peripherals. I don't think it'll be too different from pulling out your phone from a politeness standpoint.