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What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
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#12he'd be against it like he pretended to have no intention to create a phone, tablet or indeed X other device, if apple hadn't made one yet he would always contend there was no use for it.
I think there's truth to what you say... he had a knack for supporting what could be made well at the cutting edge of available tech. Head's up display is crap today not so much because of imaging tech into the eye being lacking (that could be built quickly) but rather because we can't compute enough useful stuff about what the eye sees and present it to the user for a compelling experience yet.
All this is changing... self-driving cars etc. but it's going to take time.
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#13Killer-app for HUD?
-> Identify name by facial recognition!
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#16The same criticism could have been levelled at headphones before they became mainstream. "You're likely to get hit by a car" etc.
I think wearing heads up displays sounds ridiculous. But shoving little speakers inside your head probably sounded pretty insane too.
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#17Killer-app for HUD? -> Identify name by facial recognition!
Serious privacy implications, but as someone who doesn't do well connecting names and faces... absolutely a MUST-HAVE app!
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#18I believe the first half of 2012 will go down in the History of blogging as the era where simply mentionning Steve Jobs would be enough for your blog to get attention. Remember this shallow article that topped HN by comparing Linus Torvalds to Steve Jobs? Heck, even an old (badly written) blog post of mine, dating from early 2010 and called "Steve Jobs the control freak" is attracting so much traffic now. I'm complai…
Given the amount that I still hear people gripe back and forth about Google stealing from Apple and vice-versa, I think it's at least mildly interesting to know that Jobs explicitly passed on this idea. I'm not saying it does or doesn't, but if it became big, it would reflect differently on Jobs and his "foresight" knowing that he frowned on it. If it flops, he is "right". Not important and probably tends towards pet…
Steve Jobs initially also passed on the idea of the App Store and I think I recall he also ridiculed the idea of making a tablet.
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#19Apple have patents in this space. So, presumably, he'd have thought it was interesting at least.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the amount that I still hear people gripe back and forth about Google stealing from Apple and vice-versa, I think it's at least mildly interesting to know that Jobs explicitly passed on this idea. I'm not saying it does or doesn't, but if it became big, it would reflect differently on Jobs and his "foresight" knowing that he frowned on it. If it flops, he is "right". Not important and probably tends towards pet…
Steve Jobs initially also passed on the idea of the App Store and I think I recall he also ridiculed the idea of making a tablet.
He didn't ridicule the idea of making a tablet. The iPad was actually created before the iPhone, but they shelved the tablet temporarily to focus on the phone market first.