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This wouldn't happen if the initial allocation of Glass units had been done in sane way, like setting a market-clearing price, rather than basing it on Twitter

• thedufer 14y ago
  Did you see the list of people who got them? A significant number had no followers at all. I doubt the median follower count of selected accounts was much different from the median follower accounts of the active twitter population. > setting a market-clearing price That would be _way_ less of a random sampling than what they have now. You don't get good feedback by having it available to such a tiny segments of the population.
• rtkwe 14y ago
  It makes sense if you look at this as a promotion/market research instead of a first batch of sales. And I think that's exactly what they're doing, giving the product to a large group of people who can reach a larger number of people to introduce their product. It's also a bit of market and use testing since they'll be able to see how people are using them and improve or expand the application offerings in those areas.
• danielweber 14y ago
  They may not want there to be any headlines about "Google Glass costs $50,000" out there.