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Hah, that's funny, but I disagree. The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn
by philco 13y ago
Hah, that's funny, but I disagree.
The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn't play music otherwise. (Unless I carried a boombox on my shoulder, which some people did in awesome rap videos).
Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone. It takes pictures...faster...but I can already take pictures with my phone.
- sinnerswing 13y agomy phone also won't make me look like a dork. seriously, this is Google's number one hurdle to getting people to use this.
- Lewisham 13y agoAll bluetooth headsets make people look like dorks, but that hasn't stopped their proliferation. FWIW, when I was an intern at Google, Sergey wore them 24/7. He looked a bit weird the first couple of times, but after that he just looks like Sergey. It's like people wearing glasses when they previously didn't. Weird for a bit, then perfectly normal afterwards.
- sinnerswing 13y agoheadsets don't cover your face. big difference.
- paulhodge 13y agoNot really. You know there was a time when people didn't wear glasses or sunglasses at all, then people started doing it, and now it's normal.
- sinnerswing 13y agoglasses = nerdy sunglasses = cool google glasses = dorky 99% of what Google glass can do I can do on my smartphone WITHOUT THE HASSLE and WITHOUT making me look like a dork.
- Gigablah 13y agoDon't worry, in a decade or so, using a "smartphone" will make you look like a square.
- WayneDB 13y agoWearing a bluetooth headset is not required to use a cell phone though. It's optional. Also, how much have they really proliferated? I don't see them very often in my slice of suburbia.
- Lewisham 13y ago"Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone." Right now. And yet, isn't one of your points that it's not a micro improvement? You're saying here it's a micro improvement on your phone... but that's a bad thing in your blog. It's not hard to imagine Glass having a phone built in (in fact I'd welcome it, the apps I really need on my phone could easily be in Glass, and I could do without the distraction of the others), so I really am having trouble following your arguments based on a very very beta product that has plenty of years of runway to develop.
- philco 13y agoIt's not a micro-improvement on my phone. It's an additional device.
- rhizome 13y agoThe walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise Transistor radio? Panasonic portable cassette[1]? The Walkman had three things: size, stereo and marketing. Maybe you had a need for portable stereo playback in 1981, but for me and my friends it was the size and the marketing. Then again I never had a transistor radio, so I had no opportunity to be pre-jaded. [1] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TjQbHKV2Vuc/S59ezmCHH7I/AAAAAAAAA3I/qLLjbwpmUi4/vintage-cassette-recorder.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TjQbHKV2Vuc/S59ezmCHH7I/AAAAAAAAA3...