Google Glass is Ridiculous
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Google Glass is Ridiculous
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#2"Other than practical folks like Gruber ... "
I stopped reading after that sentence.
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#3>Google has never had a successful product that people pay for.
Pretty sure people pay for AdWords.
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#4Can you imagine having a conversation with someone that's wearing this thing
You mean like someone with, well, glasses?
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#5>Google has never had a successful product that people pay for. Pretty sure people pay for AdWords.
And despite their supply problems, the Nexus 4/7 are top quality products.
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#6I'm not that excited about the product itself but the technology behind it and the opportunities it creates for future tech. I'm sure I'm not the only one looking at it from that angle.
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#7This just sounds like someone whining over tech for no reason other than to whine. I'll pass.
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#8This 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 cars, they appear to be dropping out of popularity (thank god). How is Glass any different, on a social interaction level? How is it any better? How does it solve the problems that bluetooth headsets had? It doesn't. It just requires you to talk to the aether even more.
Which brings us to the other 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." If they don't solve this, that could be a real problem. If anyone using one of these things has even a moment of self-awareness they wouldn't be able to stop laughing.
This is a really prescient article. It brings up exactly the right UI points, and the right problems. These are problems that Google should have started with, because that's how you design good human interactions. Instead they put a computer on glasses with a HUD screen and are screaming "LOOK ISN'T IT COOL" everywhere.
No, it's not. It's not human. And the reason is common among all Google products, to the extent it's almost pathological in the company: they are engineers first. They really aren't set up for human-focused design. It's just not in their DNA.
Do they make cool stuff? Of course. But none of them fit together in the right ways. They always seem to be using rivets when they should have been sculpting from clay.
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#9I love how he formed such strong opinions without ever experiencing it or anything like it. And then says "Puke" about an article from someone that actually DID use it.
Not to mention that he clearly didn't read the article that closely if he thinks that the only way to interact with Glass is to talk to it.
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#10every new technology goes through the hype cycle[1]. generally with new services we are at the peak just before the product launches and that's where we appear to be before I/O.
But the op comes across as very harsh against a product that he hasnt tested and at most has been used by very few people. I think it may generally be bash against the hype of the product rather than anything it offers.