very true. First instance I too felt the same. User will fall down or hit some vehicle/tree.
What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
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#22We really need to stop running product ideas through the Steve Jobs lens.
He was a product visionary - but I'm sure that he would also agree that he was only one man, and that there have been plenty of great products released which a) didn't conform to his Dieter Rams-inspired vision of design, and b) he didn't particularly care for.
If we continue down this road, we'll end up narrowing the scope for what constitutes great design.
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#23I don't think he was against the idea itself, but against the oh-so-cliche "idea guys". A wearable heads-up display is not a new idea such that whoever thought of it would become rich. Heck, I wrote a mock-proposal about developing a heads-up display monocle earlier this year for a school project.
A heads-up display monocle? Now that's brilliant.
Call it "The Dandy" and make the tag line, "Don't make a spectacle of yourself."
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#24Pseudo omniscient now departed being Steve Jobs as an imaginary evaluator for all things tends to get old fast. The "people will fall" argument is simply pathetic, even if it came from said person. I don't know what is the problem with bloggers lately but I am starting to find it amusing that the semigodic look up to, in memory of is going to bring many more "pearls" like this one. It's becoming one of those "what would Jesus do" meme things.
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#25Earlier 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 passed on many ideas, just to come back two weeks later to the same people with just the same idea and pitching it as the greatest thing known to man.
Just because he considered it shit once dies not mean that he wouldn't change his opinion later.
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#26very true. First instance I too felt the same. User will fall down or hit some vehicle/tree.
Just like how every time a runner glances at their GPS or watch they fall down or get hit by a car?
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#27The 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.
You're still likely to get into an accident while driving/biking with headphones on, mainstream or not...