I used to think these things were too ugly to take off. But I cant walk out the door these days without bumping into someone wearing a huge pair of headphones that were so laughable a couple of years ago. Must have been thousands of them in the mall on Saturday - some on their head and others around their neck so everyone can see. I still find them laughable, and will probably never bring myself to wear google glass but I am old and still wear my pants up around my waist.
On topic: did I really hear the "talking beef jerky" ask the somewhat pretty ginger how long she worked on the frames and she replied with, "one-and-a-half years"?
Now that's F**** up!.... just sayin'... carry on mobbing the technologist while I look into who that ginger is...:smokey:
You don't believe in your ideas; you need people to agree with you, to validate you. Because there's simply no other reason to get so worked up over the reactions from a bunch of anonymous strangers on the Internet. We are all a bunch of nobodies with nothing better to do. Just like you. Any "victory" over the likes of us forum dwellers would only satiate the weakest and most pitiful of egos.
The funny thing is that you guys are so worked up trying to act like you're not worked up that you are missing the bigger picture. tt92618 keeps giving you more & more rope and you keep pulling it while claiming that people that do so are insecure. You can't see how you're being played and this tail is wagging the dog! Oh, the irony!
Let me put it another way - Never argue with an insecure person because other people watching won't be able to tell the difference.
The funny thing is that you guys are so worked up trying to act like you're not worked up that you are missing the bigger picture. tt92618 keeps giving you more & more rope and you keep pulling it while claiming that people that do so are insecure. You can't see how you're being played and this tail is wagging the dog! Oh, the irony!
Let me put it another way - Never argue with an insecure person because other people watching won't be able to tell the difference.
You and several others today have spent an inordinate amount of time mocking me, the person, instead of talking civilly about the ideas I brought to the table.
Yep.
Oh, wait, no, that’s YOU, who decided that the number of posts a person has invalidates their argument.
…to care if I get banned from this useless forum anyway.
I’ll make a note of explicitly telling Marvin this, then. When you’re banned, I’m sure you won’t care, either. And you certainly won’t make a new account–in violation of our rules–to come back and tell us one last time that you’re leaving.
At least if that happens, I will have clued at least one trollish imbecile (you) into the knowledge that their behavior is oafish, immature, and destined for a bad outcome.
This is how pathetic you actually are. " src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />
Actually, you are the one being extreme and 'insane' here. Glass is already seeing use in certain verticals, and it is the only implementation of a hands free augmented reality device to be even a little practical or functional. And as a matter of fact, Glass works astoundingly well all things considered. So to roundly dismiss it as a failure because you don't see half the crowd on the street wearing them is, really, just very ignorant. In fact, it verges on being willfully stupid.
Google isn't the first company to do this.
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Saying over and over that Google F'd up doesn't mean it is true. Your assumptions and biases are at fault, because you insist that the product is even intended to have a mass market appeal. But of course it isn't, and insisting that it should is a bit like insisting that the average person should want to go buy a stethoscope. So you are essentially leveling the argument that a manufacturer of stethoscopes has failed because you don't see half the crowd on the subway wearing them. And that sort of argument is rubbish, lets be honest.
Glass is an experiment. So are Google's self driving cars. They are efforts to build 'version 1' of an entirely new category of things, and to work toward consumer uses of these technologies. Arguing that they are failures because the entire category as a consumer grade phenomenon is nascent at this time is, in my opinion, an absurd position to take.
Just curious...did they market it to customers as an experiment?
You make love to Google's products- did you buy one? No? Then that just further proves it was a heap of shit that the world doesn't want. There was no "window" because no one wanted it!
As a consumer device Google Glass is a failure, but there are many niche projects where Glass will succeed. For instance, I think some version of it will end up in hospitals providing info to docs. The reason is that doctors need access to information and if they have sterile gloves on they can't touch screens or other things outside the sterile field. Another example is the group that used Google Glass for giving deaf people information in a museum.
Obviously Google isn't going to make a return on its investment. But it was clearly an advancement in technology. Google's efforts are also good for Apple. It is very valuable for Apple to observe market failures. Apple then makes a decision about whether the competitor failed because of a poor market opportunity or poor execution. For instance, the tablet market clearly existed in 2010, but Microsoft had failed to properly execute. In the case of Google Glass, I think Google misjudged the market, which is why you won't see Apple releasing camera glasses.
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I used to think these things were too ugly to take off. But I cant walk out the door these days without bumping into someone wearing a huge pair of headphones that were so laughable a couple of years ago. Must have been thousands of them in the mall on Saturday - some on their head and others around their neck so everyone can see. I still find them laughable, and will probably never bring myself to wear google glass but I am old and still wear my pants up around my waist.
Never underestimate the stupidity of fashion.
On topic: did I really hear the "talking beef jerky" ask the somewhat pretty ginger how long she worked on the frames and she replied with, "one-and-a-half years"?
Now that's F**** up!.... just sayin'... carry on mobbing the technologist while I look into who that ginger is...:smokey:
You don't believe in your ideas; you need people to agree with you, to validate you. Because there's simply no other reason to get so worked up over the reactions from a bunch of anonymous strangers on the Internet. We are all a bunch of nobodies with nothing better to do. Just like you. Any "victory" over the likes of us forum dwellers would only satiate the weakest and most pitiful of egos.
The funny thing is that you guys are so worked up trying to act like you're not worked up that you are missing the bigger picture. tt92618 keeps giving you more & more rope and you keep pulling it while claiming that people that do so are insecure. You can't see how you're being played and this tail is wagging the dog! Oh, the irony!
Let me put it another way - Never argue with an insecure person because other people watching won't be able to tell the difference.
Bazinga!
That doesn't matter to me.
(That's how you can tell us apart)
You and several others today have spent an inordinate amount of time mocking me, the person, instead of talking civilly about the ideas I brought to the table.
Yep.
Oh, wait, no, that’s YOU, who decided that the number of posts a person has invalidates their argument.
i'm going to block you now.
HEY EVERYONE. HE’S LEAVING AGAIN. THEREFORE HE’S RIGHT. AGAIN. JUST FYI.
…to care if I get banned from this useless forum anyway.
I’ll make a note of explicitly telling Marvin this, then. When you’re banned, I’m sure you won’t care, either. And you certainly won’t make a new account–in violation of our rules–to come back and tell us one last time that you’re leaving.
This is how pathetic you actually are.
" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />
Actually, you are the one being extreme and 'insane' here. Glass is already seeing use in certain verticals, and it is the only implementation of a hands free augmented reality device to be even a little practical or functional. And as a matter of fact, Glass works astoundingly well all things considered. So to roundly dismiss it as a failure because you don't see half the crowd on the street wearing them is, really, just very ignorant. In fact, it verges on being willfully stupid.
Google isn't the first company to do this.
Saying over and over that Google F'd up doesn't mean it is true. Your assumptions and biases are at fault, because you insist that the product is even intended to have a mass market appeal. But of course it isn't, and insisting that it should is a bit like insisting that the average person should want to go buy a stethoscope. So you are essentially leveling the argument that a manufacturer of stethoscopes has failed because you don't see half the crowd on the subway wearing them. And that sort of argument is rubbish, lets be honest.
Glass is an experiment. So are Google's self driving cars. They are efforts to build 'version 1' of an entirely new category of things, and to work toward consumer uses of these technologies. Arguing that they are failures because the entire category as a consumer grade phenomenon is nascent at this time is, in my opinion, an absurd position to take.
Just curious...did they market it to customers as an experiment?
Google isn't the first company to do this.
Just curious...did they market it to customers as an experiment?
1) No one said they were but out of curiosity who was the first company to do this?
2) In a word, yes - and they still do. They call it an open beta and in the beginning you had to be invited into the "Explorers Program."
https://www.google.com/glass/start/
1) No one said they were but out of curiosity who was the first company to do this?
2) In a word, yes - and they still do. They call it an open beta and in the beginning you had to be invited into the "Explorers Program."
https://www.google.com/glass/start/
1) that part of my comment was a mistake - it was a draft that I didn't finish & forgot to discard.
I'm sure you could find the answer to this by searching.
2) There's one born every minute.
The tech crowd didn't even buy it!
You make love to Google's products- did you buy one? No? Then that just further proves it was a heap of shit that the world doesn't want. There was no "window" because no one wanted it!
As a consumer device Google Glass is a failure, but there are many niche projects where Glass will succeed. For instance, I think some version of it will end up in hospitals providing info to docs. The reason is that doctors need access to information and if they have sterile gloves on they can't touch screens or other things outside the sterile field. Another example is the group that used Google Glass for giving deaf people information in a museum.
Obviously Google isn't going to make a return on its investment. But it was clearly an advancement in technology. Google's efforts are also good for Apple. It is very valuable for Apple to observe market failures. Apple then makes a decision about whether the competitor failed because of a poor market opportunity or poor execution. For instance, the tablet market clearly existed in 2010, but Microsoft had failed to properly execute. In the case of Google Glass, I think Google misjudged the market, which is why you won't see Apple releasing camera glasses.