What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
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Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#2I 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.
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#3Why not link to the original post?
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#4Haha. If his biography is any indication, he'd shoot down the idea and then come out with glasses in 6 months and say how he thought of it.
To be serious, I think Steve Jobs would consider it. If you had the glasses and they worked as advertised, you wouldn't need an iPhone, and that threatens their core business. They'd have to either get in on it, and the iPhone5/6 would be eyewear, or find something to leap frog it.
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#5I 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.
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#6he'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.
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#7I 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 complaining about this article. It's not interesting. It's not Steve Job's opinion on the Project Glass. It's simply relating an anecdote about Jobs giving a cocky answer to a cocky employee. But it mentions Jobs, it mentions Project Glass and ... BAM! Front page of HN for the day.
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#8Haha. If his biography is any indication, he'd shoot down the idea and then come out with glasses in 6 months and say how he thought of it. To be serious, I think Steve Jobs would consider it. If you had the glasses and they worked as advertised, you wouldn't need an iPhone, and that threatens their core business. They'd have to either get in on it, and the iPhone5/6 would be eyewear, or find something to leap frog i…
Exactly. He wouldn't announce anything, and would deride competitors efforts until Apple had ironed out all the bugs.
Then he'd come up with some minimal produce with a great user interface which slotted in perfectly to Apple's ecosystem, then try to grow it into its own platform.
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#9I 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 petty fanboy credits, but fun to think about (and there is the thought that Jobs would shoot it down even if he liked it or considered it more later).
Re: What would Steve Jobs think about Project Glass (Google Glasses)
#10He'd ask whether it would help you to get a girlfriend, or whether it would just creep her out.
Based on this:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/52-steve-jobs-just-put-it-in-...