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There's a problem with glass. As far as I can tell. What Google is hoping for is to tease us into wanting something, that no one has asked for. Google is not
by kmasters 13y ago
There's a problem with glass. As far as I can tell.
What Google is hoping for is to tease us into wanting something, that no one has asked for.
Google is not alone in this historically.
Let's step back a decade, when we were all told that Microsoft (by Microsoft) had the biggest R&D budget in the world.
What products came out of that R&D? ZERO.
Apple on the other hand spent years developing the iPhone with iPod profits and never let on what they were going to reveal. What happened? A mobile revolution.
Google is telegraphing R&D to try and leapfrog Apple in the public mind while having no viable consumer product in the pipeline much less on retail shelves. Thats tantamount to product suicide.
I think Glass or something like glass could be important, but I think that Googles approach to pushing alphaware in front of the masses, will, if it really is viable force google to play catch up to Apple or someone else once again.
Google has never, not once, in its history, had a successful launch of a hardware product.
- DominikR 13y ago"Google has never, not once, in its history, had a successful launch of a hardware product" Sure, Apple brought us the iPad Mini because the Nexus 7 failed so hard. The Nexus 4 and 10 are also known as big failures that customers hate.
- kmasters 13y agoYou are correct, No Nexus device from the time it was released to today has sold as much as the iPad or iPhone sells in one day. Google has never had a successful launch of a hardware product, not even once.
- DominikR 13y agoSo what? Has it ever been the purpose of them to sell as many Nexus devices as their competitors and thereby risking to alienate their partners? (Samsung, HTC, Lg and so on) It was nevertheless a successful hardware product because users and reviewers loved the Nexus devices and they sold everything they produced.
- msabalau 13y agoSo, you joined this community nine days ago and thought a great way to begin would be with a ridiculous and absurd lie about Nexus sales? Regardless, it's hardly clear why a community of people intent on founding new businesses would consider a history of successful product launches all that important.
- cbr 13y agoSupposedly Apple sold 23M iPads in Q1 2013, or 250K/day [1] but Google sold 4.6M Nexus 7s in 2012 [2]. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/apple13q1-iphone-ipad-ipod/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/apple13q1-iphone-ipad-ipod/ [2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/19/analyst-estimates-peg-total-nexus-7-sales-in-2012-at-around-4-6m-compared-to-roughly-10m-ipad-minis/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/19/analyst-estimates-peg-total...
- FireBeyond 13y ago"There's a problem with glass. As far as I can tell. What Google is hoping for is to tease us into wanting something, that no one has asked for." Uhh, what, huh? You mean to tell me all those movies, cartoons, thousands of sci fi books where people explore a future with such objects, all these people exploring and creating, or describing what a future might be like... ... are not actually asking for it at all. Instead, they're just waiting for what Apple will tell them they wanted all along? Sorry, even as someone who has an MBP, iPhone, iPad, I find this perspective hilarious and borderline offensive.
- gaius 13y agoWhat products came out of that R&D? ZERO The point of research isn't products (and you can ask famous labs like PARC and Bell if you don't believe me) but MSR has done a bunch of stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research