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As I Tweeted a couple of days ago, it's the Bluetooth headset times a billion. Something that might be legitimately useful to a small percentage of the population, but wearing it in public makes you look like a tool.
This needed to be said. The social implications of this device are indeed ridiculous. Most insightful: "Can you imagine having a conversation with someone that's wearing this thing? I'd feel like they aren't even paying attention." I already detest people wearing bluetooth headsets. They give off the wrong social cues, they were never really accepted as fashion, and other than government-mandated hands-free use in ca…
> insightful quote: "I can only imagine my morning commute on the bus, with 15 different people talking to the screen on their head just trying to check email." So, low-quality earbuds are the problem, here, right? I mean, you're talking about listening to other people talking softly on public transportation, and you say the conversation is the problem? Do you similarly hate people who use cellphones or talk with fri…
Yes, I do hate them, and I thought the common perception was that everyone hates people that talk on the phone when using public transport.
This immediatly reminded of about Ballmer's reaction to the first iPhone [1] : he started laughing explaining it's too expensive, doesn't have a physical keyboard. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
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You may want to ask the 70,000 people who put money into the Pebble smartwatch Kickstarter... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper... Here are the arguments Tog makes for an "iWatch": http://asktog.com/atc/apple-iwatch/
I thought we were discussing Google Glass. (for what its worth, Gruber backed the Pebble on Kickstarter: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/04/23/pebble-watch )
Both are wearable screens augmenting your phone, though the Glass has additional features, like voice commands and a camera
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You may want to ask the 70,000 people who put money into the Pebble smartwatch Kickstarter... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper... Here are the arguments Tog makes for an "iWatch": http://asktog.com/atc/apple-iwatch/
I thought we were discussing Google Glass. (for what its worth, Gruber backed the Pebble on Kickstarter: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/04/23/pebble-watch )
"Other than practical folks like Gruber ... " I stopped reading after that sentence.
Then you missed a cogent argument: "If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone."
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People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. Wait, bulky cell phones did not catch on. Cell phones became ubiquitous once they became practical. Go back in time and introduce a modern cell phone (assume the infrastructure to support it) and it would be a huge success. Maybe the next incarnation of enhanced reality will be huge, but the argument is that this incarnation will…
But would you get to the modern cellphone without the bulky ones? Also did the bulky ones not catch on because they were bulky, or because they were expensive or ...?