re: Google Glass essentially flopped...

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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.

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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.