Glasshole here -- and I think Gruber's comments are fair. It's a product that is intended to be used all the time. So if people don't, "is it bad?" is a valid q

Glasshole here -- and I think Gruber's comments are fair. It's a product that is intended to be used all the time. So if people don't, "is it bad?" is a valid question. I can't wear it all the time, because the battery life is ridiculously short, and I won't, because they're so ostentatious and dorky looking (and I'm vain enough) that I often don't want to be seen wearing them. By Gruber's standards, all those reasons + the price = a failed consumer product. But I doubt Google's grading it as a typical consumer product. It works for Google for it to be expensive and obvious, because the wearers become visible motivated evangelists for the technology. It just doesn't work for me, personally, and clearly doesn't work for Gruber. All that said... aside from the decent-sized UI problems it has... once you spend some time with it, the "omnipresent screen" is as addictive as the original iPhone was. Blackberry is a better analogy; I look forward to Google's improvements as well as what I hope is serious competition from the A players and not just Kickstarters. (Plus, I'm really enjoying coding for it. It feels new and exciting, like there's huge unclaimed areas waiting to be conquered. Lots of limitations to work around, too.)