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It's interesting to go back and re-read the overwhelmingly positive predictions HN users made when Spectacles were announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
by jonahx 9y ago
It's interesting to go back and re-read the overwhelmingly positive predictions HN users made when Spectacles were announced:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569182
and compare those to the "it was obviously going to fail" responses here.
- empath75 9y agoThe only people I ever saw say anything positive about them were people that were pumping the IPO or people they paid to hype them.
- jonahx 9y agoLooking at the profiles of the two top-voted comments in that thread, that doesn't seem to be the case. But just browse the replies: many HN posters genuinely seemed to believe they'd nailed some key niche and important product details. They didn't strike me that way -- which is why I remembered the post. The contrast struck me as an interesting example of hindsight bias.
- TylerE 9y agoIs that really surprising? This is, erm, not the most critical audience.
- LordDragonfang 9y agoAs someone who was looking forward to getting a consumer version of Glass, I get a special schadenfreude looking back at all the articles saying how obvious it was that Spectacles would succeed where Google failed.