Had Apple not had its hooks into me since I first transferred all my online music from .mp3's and the HD on my laptop back in 2005 when I got my first iPod Mini, I would've tried Google by now. The ecosystem itself-along with my familiarity with it-are just too much to turn away from at this point.

But I use the fire out of G-Mail. Google Maps for personal and professional use. Same with Google Search, images.google, translate.google, and even goo.gl.

I don't hate Google. I just find it interesting that Google seems to have fanbois that will explain away an obvious misstep or false start or failure/flop as quickly as they accuse Apple's own fanbois.

Just interesting how it works.

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Posted by TigerinATL

Member since Feb 2005

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Posted on 2/2/15 at 9:30 am to GFunk

Fanboys fighting each other is a battle we all lose.

Glass is definitely a commercial failure, but it is questionable if the project ever reached the stage of having commercial goals. Google's #1 product is user data and they are constantly looking for new ways to get it. Another flop of Google's was Wave. It attempted to combine chat/email/blogging all into one app. It Flopped, but I'm pretty sure it's components/lessons moved on to various Google Plus parts, another commercial failure, but not a user data acquisition failure as evidenced by breaking up Plus into multiple separate apps that people did find useful and continue to use and allow Google to access their personal data. So that is 2 flops that still furthered Google towards their end goal. Glass may have been a flop, but that doesn't mean it wasn't/won't be useful to Google.

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Posted by CAD703X

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Member since Jul 2008

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Posted on 2/2/15 at 9:32 am to GFunk

quote:
Google seems to have fanbois that will explain away an obvious misstep or false start or failure/flop as quickly as they accuse Apple's own fanbois.

not so fast.

i regularly fuss about google stuff that doesn't work right ALL THE TIME.

others do as well.

but calling glass a 'misstep' when the whole objective is to push the concept of 'personal technology' in a new direction instead of a phone is completely wrong.

A. google got the publicity they wanted..people went crazy over this in the press.

B. google got the feeback they wanted in actual NEW LAWS written, TSA response, new 'rules' in restaurants and endless debates about this intrustive technology.

first and foremost google glass v1.0 was never designed to be a mass-marketed product.

it was designed EXACTLY to elicit the type of response that it received.

now google is furiously coming up with 'glass v2' and it may not even be glasses! the furor over illegally recording movies and 'disctracted driving' lawsuits provided google with a WEALTH of information so their next beta test will take these factors into account.

misstep? hardly.

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