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re: Google Glass essentially flopped...

Posted on 2/2/15 at 3:00 pm to
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
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Posted on 2/2/15 at 3:00 pm to
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GFunk
Here's the deal...

We are here talking about Google Glass, and what Google might make next. Regular people are thinking about how wearables could be more socially acceptable. Developers are thinking about how to write apps to make better use of a persistent screen in one's field of view. I have no doubt these were some of the top goals of Glass, so those are a few big wins.

Whether Google reached a goal with Glass that YOU think they were shooting for is irrelevant. Would they have liked everyone and their mother to rush out and buy a pair? Of course. But I'm pretty sure the people making decisions at Google are some realistic folks, and the project has so far succeeded at what they were expecting. They know they are pushing the envelope, but sometimes that's what it takes to truly innovate.
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Again, not a fanboi, regardless of how you think I might've phrased or worded my OP or subsequent ones.
So why the snarky comment about iPhone and iPad, as if they are anywhere close to the same level of innovation as Glass? You also claimed to be open to being convinced, but have so far totally resisted any and all attempts.
Posted by GFunk
Denham Springs
Member since Feb 2011
14967 posts
Posted on 2/2/15 at 4:07 pm to
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Korkstand
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So why the snarky comment about iPhone and iPad, as if they are anywhere close to the same level of innovation as Glass? You also claimed to be open to being convinced, but have so far totally resisted any and all attempts.


I'd say the iPhone completely and utterly changed the wireless phone and wireless computing spaces. Apps did not exist and neither did anyone's idea for a need for "data" packages with their wireless bills.

Otherwise, I'm unconvinced because I'd say its a failure compared to what they wanted to do. There's been plenty of successful failures in history and I don't-and really haven't tried to-deny this might be one of them. Google is so big it tends to fall forward, even when it falls in public. I just think this is one of those times.

I notice that folks will jump on Apple-for any reason-and yet there is a predictable defense here for what Google does. Even a spin where failures and their C-level employees saying they have to pause or stop spending money on programs and reassign them is somehow what they were always after the whole time.

Just doesn't seem to make sense on the surface.

No fanboi. Just honestly looking at things as objectively as I can.
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