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I wouldn't exactly say Tim Cook's "shit-talking" it. His quote from D11 on Glass is: "There are some positives in the product. It's probably likely to appeal t
by Osmium 13y ago
I wouldn't exactly say Tim Cook's "shit-talking" it. His quote from D11 on Glass is:
"There are some positives in the product. It's probably likely to appeal to certain vertical markets. The likelihood that it has broad appeals is hard to see."
I think that's actually a fairly well-balanced statement. He also says this about glasses and watches:
"Nothing that's going to convince a kid that's never worn glasses or a band or a watch or whatever to wear one. At least I haven't seen it. So there's lots of things to solve in this space."
This isn't saying that Glass will never work or that it's a bad idea, just that as it currently stands it needs a lot of work to have a mass appeal, which is probably true. I, for one, am looking forward to see what Glass becomes in two or three iterations time.
- drivebyacct2 13y agoLook, I'm not a fashionable guy, but come on: "Nothing that's going to convince a kid that's never worn glasses or a band or a watch or whatever to wear one." I'm kind of embarrassed by Tim's comments. He won't even make a non-pessismistic comment about watches, which, I guess everyone could be wrong but it seems they'll introduce one soon; it's as if he's already pushing the notion "Apple iWatch is magical and people want to wear it and not the three competing Android watches that better integrate with your phone and have more features". Who knows, it's taken HTC years (and losing tons of market share) to design fashionable looking hardware. Maybe Apple will win purely on design and Tim's comments will be vindicated. Either way, I hope he's not putting all his eggs in that iPhone basket, unless iOS7 just prints money.