Why Google Glass Will Fail
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Why Google Glass Will Fail
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#2All of these arguments would also be valid for a post in the early 80's entitled "Why the Walkman Will Fail."
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#3All of these arguments would also be valid for a post in the early 80's entitled "Why the Walkman Will Fail."
Hah, that's funny, but I disagree.
The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn't play music otherwise. (Unless I carried a boombox on my shoulder, which some people did in awesome rap videos).
Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone. It takes pictures...faster...but I can already take pictures with my phone.
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#4I think Glass will be awesome in certain areas, mostly related with work than pleasure. I am not an example that represents the whole, but my guess that the work field will be the Glass' nirvana and the rest will be covered by devices less obstructives with your look.
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#5I think Glass will be awesome in certain areas, mostly related with work than pleasure. I am not an example that represents the whole, but my guess that the work field will be the Glass' nirvana and the rest will be covered by devices less obstructives with your look.
That's interesting. What are the work use cases you're seeing value in? (I haven't been in a formal office for so long, I may be missing the opportunity there entirely)
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#6[Reads title] "Medium? Pandodaily? Techcrunch? Check."
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#7All of these arguments would also be valid for a post in the early 80's entitled "Why the Walkman Will Fail."
Hah, that's funny, but I disagree. The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn't play music otherwise. (Unless I carried a boombox on my shoulder, which some people did in awesome rap videos). Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone. It takes pictures...faster...but I can already take pictures…
my phone also won't make me look like a dork. seriously, this is Google's number one hurdle to getting people to use this.
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#8Can someone post a mirror? I'm being prompted to sign in with Twitter to view the article, something which I have no intent of doing.
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#9All of these arguments would also be valid for a post in the early 80's entitled "Why the Walkman Will Fail."
Hah, that's funny, but I disagree. The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn't play music otherwise. (Unless I carried a boombox on my shoulder, which some people did in awesome rap videos). Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone. It takes pictures...faster...but I can already take pictures…
"Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone."
Right now.
And yet, isn't one of your points that it's not a micro improvement? You're saying here it's a micro improvement on your phone... but that's a bad thing in your blog.
It's not hard to imagine Glass having a phone built in (in fact I'd welcome it, the apps I really need on my phone could easily be in Glass, and I could do without the distraction of the others), so I really am having trouble following your arguments based on a very very beta product that has plenty of years of runway to develop.
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#10Can someone post a mirror? I'm being prompted to sign in with Twitter to view the article, something which I have no intent of doing.
"Google Glass is a new gadget. Other popular devices reduced the number of gadgets I needed to carry and made life better, but Glass is an extra gadget plus it's stupid because it doesn't do anything and what it does do it does badly".