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I don’t think google understood (understands?) the intended case much either.

• dodobirdlord 7y ago
  > Glass Enterprise Edition has helped workers in a variety of industries—from logistics, to manufacturing, to field services—do their jobs more efficiently by providing hands-free access to the information and tools they need to complete their work. Seems fairly straightforward.
  • IshKebab 7y ago
    Yeah to be fair that's not how it was originally intended. This use-case emerged from previous releases as being the only one where it is actually helpful. Maybe anyway.
    • mynameisvlad 7y ago
      Why is pivoting something to be criticized? They tried something out, it failed, and found that this other use case is far more compelling. For most startups, people would call that a success. Why is it something that's being criticized here? Just because it's Google (or Apple, or Microsoft, or any other big company) doesn't mean they know the right answer from the get-go. They're allowed to fail just as much as anyone else.
  • givinguflac 7y ago
    Yes, and we still use computers how they were originally marketed too . In all seriousness though, see you in a year when this is dead again. Google hasn’t made a single hardware device that has actually stood the test of even a small amount of time yet. One could argue Home mini is the closest thing they have, but it’s still so early for smart speakers. We’ll see.