Seriously Yahoo?....Why Google Glass Will Never Be Okay

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/sxsw-is-a-future-forward-kind-of-place-featuring-79162210632.html

by treskot • 12 years ago

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mooism2• 12 years ago

Dear treskot,

Do you have any substantive criticism of the article that you'd like to share as a comment or blog post, instead of editorialising snarkily in the link text?

treskot• 12 years ago

Yes, I fail to understand the logic behind why the Yahoo author is bashing Google Glass.

BhavdeepSethi• 12 years ago

I did not see anything out of the ordinary here. Most people share this sentiment even now. Your point, treskot?

mattlutze• 12 years ago

I think the article's author may end up on the wrong side of the Glass-bashing. Google hasn't a great track record with hardware, so maybe the hurdle for mass adoption is high. But it would not be all that difficult for Google to make a few modifications, or for enough adoption to increase awareness enough, so that the average person talking to a Glass wearer would know when it's on, when it's snapping a picture or video, when the user is absently looking at something else.

The criticism strikes of the same sentiments that people carrying smart phones would be social pariah, or as was mentioned in another article a few weeks ago, that people wearing headphones with their Walkmans would be socially off-putting and aloof as well. Both of these are more-or-less assimilated into normal life.

I expect that wearables, quite possibly Glass if it lasts long enough, will end up just as much a non-issue in a few years.

Seriously Yahoo?....Why Google Glass Will Never Be Okay

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