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Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by ohwp »

levesque wrote: post #51
Jabbles wrote: post #22

certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace Nexus 7 sale estimates are 4.6 million. Fine, so they haven't ousted Apple yet, but it's by no means a "complete failure". I like mine :) That seems to be the only "argument" in the article. The others seem to be arguments from personal incredulity. http://news.yahoo.com/nexus-7-sales-soared-2012-still-fell-s... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/A…

Asus makes the Nexus 7, so it's not entirely a Google product.

Foxconn makes the iPad, iPhone and iPod. So they are not entirely Apple products..?

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Post by iamben »

bergie wrote: post #58
pezz wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can't see the difference between someone holding a largish device (say, a phone), point it at you and record a video (hence, obviously snooping) versus same said person closing their eyes, pretending they're sleeping, having their head tilted in your direction and recording a video... Then yeah, I guess you're the kind of creep this product might appeal to.

There have been covert cameras available for creeps for a long time. And these are a lot less noticeable than Glass... http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f03a/

They don't have an internet connection, though.

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Post by voidr »

> certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace; from Nexus all the way through likely the biggest failure to date, Google TV.

"Reception of the Nexus 4 has been very positive overall. Reviewers were consistently impressed with the Nexus 4's affordable price and impressive specifications."

...

"On the day of release, the entire Nexus 4 stock on the Play Store sold out in under 30 minutes."

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_4

To me it seems that in fact Google does make stuff that people actually pay for.

Also Google glass is a prototype, the author is basically speculating about it's future without any insight, he has no way of knowing what will happen to Google Glass, unless he has a time machine or a crystal ball, sure the current Glass is not trendy but the next version may become a lot nicer and less geeky.

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Post by joonix »

canttestthis wrote: post #33
blowski wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, post could be summarised as: "I currently don't want one. Therefore, nobody will ever want one. Anybody that says they do want one is a fanboy."

Agreed. Much of the post is subjective or flat out untrue. "Puke. I find Glass to be ugly, impractical and completely ridiculous." And I find Glass to be elegant, useful, and futuristic. So where does that leave us? And then this: "they simply don't know what it means to make products that make people happy." Are you serious?

"My opinion is fact!"

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Post by ocean12 »

voidr wrote: post #73

> certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace; from Nexus all the way through likely the biggest failure to date, Google TV. "Reception of the Nexus 4 has been very positive overall. Reviewers were consistently impressed with the Nexus 4's affordable price and impressive specifications." ... "On the day of release, the entire Nexus 4 stock on the Play Store sold out in under 30 minutes…

Overall, LG did a good job designing and manufacturing the Nexus 4.

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Post by melvinmt »

The main problem with voice control is that you don't know who people are talking to when they talk in the air. That's why bluetooth headsets are considered awkward while holding a cellphone to your ear is not. Glass would need a simple social cue, like touching the side of it to enter voice commands.

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Post by corresation »

kcbanner wrote: post #25

The author seems to think he is going to forced to get one. If you don't want it , don't buy it.

It's worse than that. They fear that other people will want to get one. As with the hysterical reaction to the Galaxy Note (people desperately falling over themselves to tell everyone that it is a compensation for penis size), this is someone who decided to be anti-Google, and from that their every "judgment" is predictable.

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Post by bergie »

ocean12 wrote: post #67
ph33r wrote: post #2

"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."

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/

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