Google Glass's biggest problem is really wrong timing. In fact, all of the wearables that are coming out now have the problem of wrong timing. We hardly have e

Google Glass's biggest problem is really wrong timing. In fact, all of the wearables that are coming out now have the problem of wrong timing. We hardly have exhausted the applications of mobile computing. And the applications that do exist are only a version of desktop and big computing devices retrofitted onto mobile. The true vision of what "a computer in every pocket" can do has hardly been scratched. Things like accepting credit cards on the spot with an iPhone or barcode scanning with mobile cameras are true examples of that kind of vision. 3D scanning, whenever it arrives, will be another example. Flashlight, pocket camera, video conferencing, and digital level are also great examples. One of the great ways I hacked my life to use a "pocket computer" was using it as a digital briefcase where the phone would sync all my work files on my work computer the moment I connected to work wifi and sync it again to my home computer the moment I connected to home wifi. (I know it's not needed anymore.) That kind of true innovation where you give the mobile phone actual mobile purpose is what makes the phone a great device. Retrofitting apps from desktop to mobile fits only in some (venture capital)/(mobile frontier)/(developing country) scenario. To immediately warp speed to wearable computing and to retrofitting desktop or mobile apps onto wearable platforms is immature. There are some great uses of wearables like Google Glass in the areas of augmented reality. But very few companies are even thinking about it. Other uses for Google Glass are hindered because of privacy alarmists who cannot stop thinking about sinister uses. And of course there is the cultural stigmatism of having a computer on your face.