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Did Google Glass flop?
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:12 am
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:12 am
I can honestly say I have never seen anyone wearing it.
I always thought it was ridiculous, but did it go the way of Clear Pepsi? Or was it meant to be a prototype of something that would be more useful down the line?
I always thought it was ridiculous, but did it go the way of Clear Pepsi? Or was it meant to be a prototype of something that would be more useful down the line?
This post was edited on 9/3/15 at 11:13 am
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Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:14 am to Leonard Threenette
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I can honestly say I have never seen anyone wearing it.
i saw one person ever wear them and it was in a meeting with a large school district in Texas and the guy worked for google.
after seeing how silly he looked i understood why it flopped.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:17 am to Leonard Threenette
It was just a prototype, we will see it again in the future once they refine it and make it cheaper. Biggest reason is the lack of availability initially, price and apps.
Plus they have a patent for contacts that do something similar.. probably a very long way out though.
Plus they have a patent for contacts that do something similar.. probably a very long way out though.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:19 am to tigersnipen
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Plus they have a patent for contacts that do something similar..
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:26 am to Leonard Threenette
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Did Google Glass flop?
Did an experimental technology that they charged people $1500 to help them test flop? Google's business model is to swing for the fences, and they often use what they learned from "failed" projects into future projects. So they probably don't view it as a flop even though it didn't become a commercial success.
Did the idea of arming everyone with spycams capable of turning what once were fleeting glances that are normally missed with the naked eye into the next humiliating meme or upskirt shot flop? Yes.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:38 am to TigerinATL
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Did an experimental technology that they charged people $1500 to help them test flop? Google's business model is to swing for the fences, and they often use what they learned from "failed" projects into future projects. So they probably don't view it as a flop even though it didn't become a commercial success.
Did the idea of arming everyone with spycams capable of turning what once were fleeting glances that are normally missed with the naked eye into the next humiliating meme or upskirt shot flop? Yes.
The ability of this tech is pretty crazy if you think about it.
For example, if people had this in contacts form and were a victim of crime, the video would be uploaded immediately. Its the perfect eyewitness.
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This post was edited on 9/3/15 at 11:39 am
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:49 am to Leonard Threenette
I highly suspect that Google highly suspected Google Glass was in danger of not being a commercial success.
So in that sense, no, I don't think it was a flop. It's a company that does a lot of cool shite trying out cool shite and letting us try it too, if we wanted to pony up to do so.
So in that sense, no, I don't think it was a flop. It's a company that does a lot of cool shite trying out cool shite and letting us try it too, if we wanted to pony up to do so.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 1:11 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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if people had this in contacts form and were a victim of crime, the video would be uploaded immediately. Its the perfect eyewitness.
I was more thinking about how my girlfriend would demand that I remove my contacts before doing the deed.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 1:35 pm to foshizzle
I am not sure it flopped. They sold a good bit of them for the price they were asking. Plus it was just an experimental project, not a true released project.
Think the negative reaction to them and the people wearing them being labeled glassholes kind of made Google back off on that type of wearable for now.
Think the negative reaction to them and the people wearing them being labeled glassholes kind of made Google back off on that type of wearable for now.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 2:19 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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The ability of this tech is pretty crazy if you think about it.
For example, if people had this in contacts form and were a victim of crime, the video would be uploaded immediately. Its the perfect eyewitness.
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Posted on 9/3/15 at 2:37 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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The ability of this tech is pretty crazy if you think about it.
For example, if people had this in contacts form and were a victim of crime, the video would be uploaded immediately. Its the perfect eyewitness.
there is a giant difference between google glass tech and the tech needed to put it in contact form. Going to be a few decades before they figure out how to put batteries, cameras, and displays in a transparent case that fits on your eye and still allows you to blink normally.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 2:54 pm to Hermit Crab
Posted on 9/3/15 at 4:18 pm to TigerinATL
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Google's business model is to swing for the fences, and they often use what they learned from "failed" projects into future projects.
I think Google often starts out with a grandiose idea, but somewhere along the line starts to over-engineer it or make it impractical by adding useless features or overpricing. Examples include Google Wave, Google Glass, Google Buzz, Google+, and Nexus Q.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 10:37 pm to jdd48
They know not everything will catch on. At least they aren't afraid to try out new stuff.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 11:01 pm to SG_Geaux
Turns out, we are smarter than babies.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 8:19 am to SG_Geaux
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SG_Geaux
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They know not everything will catch on. At least they aren't afraid to try out new stuff.
They paid legions of bloggers to hype it up. They put their cofounder on a subway to "randomly" get pictures taken of himself wearing them so they could "virally," create hype.
They threw MILLIONS into Google Glasses Marketing and it went nowhere mainstream. Tech folks responded tepidly, and that's being extremely charitable. They got a ton of tech press, but they paid for the majority of early pub.
Compare their ability to market interesting products (and I think that things like Google TV, Google Buzz, Wave, Google Glasses and Google+ were and are interesting products/software/ideas) to an Apple and they're tonedeaf to the maximum.
They're a huge company with great ideas that has done some amazing things and has way more than a little gas left in their tank. They're not going anywhere.
But Google Glass was a total and utter flop. They squarely placed themselves as a replacement tech for smartphones. Their cofounder even talked about the "emasculating" experience of tapping and sliding fingers across rectangular slabs of glass, metal and plastic on stage in front of the tech media elite.
There's no denying what they were shooting for, what they thought they had, and the staggering amount of money they threw at marketing it.
All of which failed. Utterly.
Will it yield data? Of course. Valuable. Maybe invaluable. But it was a failure. As I said earlier, an utter one at that.
This post was edited on 9/4/15 at 8:21 am
Posted on 9/6/15 at 7:22 pm to WHATDOINO
Same discussion, more quotes...
Interesting you linked an article that drew on the SXSW presentation he did. That link I just included in my response quotes him fully. Where he uses the word failure and goes on to detail how they failed, which backs up my assertions.
When Google X Execs are using the term failure, along with half a million hits using Google...why aren't you?
Interesting you linked an article that drew on the SXSW presentation he did. That link I just included in my response quotes him fully. Where he uses the word failure and goes on to detail how they failed, which backs up my assertions.
When Google X Execs are using the term failure, along with half a million hits using Google...why aren't you?
This post was edited on 9/6/15 at 7:25 pm
Posted on 9/6/15 at 8:40 pm to Leonard Threenette
People paid 1500 dollars or so to Beta test a developmental product.
That is not a failure in any sense of the word.
That is not a failure in any sense of the word.
Posted on 9/6/15 at 10:19 pm to Jcorye1
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Jcorye1
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People paid 1500 dollars or so to Beta test a developmental product.
That is not a failure in any sense of the word.
Give me a moment or two so I can patch you into Sergey and Larry so you can tell them. Oh and make sure you tell this guy-Astro Teller-who used the exact word-failure-in describing Google Glass.
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Since 2010, Teller has been directing Google X laboratories.[16][17][18][19] Projects at Google X include Google Glass, Google driverless car, Google Contact Lens, and Project Loon. Google X spun its project called Genie out into a stand-alone business in 2012.[20]
The guy that's running all of Google's Moonshot projects-including the often delayed Project Ara-which I personally think has serious disruption potential in the Wireless/smartphone sector, has used the term failure to describe Google Glass.
It's like you folks are worried members of the Star Chamber during the Spanish Inquisition's heyday are gonna jump out and accuse of heresy to the Church if you simply acknowledge reality which Google's C-Level employees started doing in print in front of the tech press almost six months ago.
It's laughable because I'm guessing half the folks disagreeing with me haven't even bothered to research what Google brass is saying on the record about Glass itself postmortem.
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