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As a Glass developer and owner who spent $3k on devices for my wife and I, he sured turned us off to ever working on the line again. No more updates and corpora
by lnanek2 11y ago
As a Glass developer and owner who spent $3k on devices for my wife and I, he sured turned us off to ever working on the line again. No more updates and corporate only purchases, basically killed every single consumer targeted app any developer was working on. Many others have had to move over to working on watches, like LynxFit, even if you can't really do anything new there.
They could have been the original PC of wearables, being the first consumer device thousands of developers first worked on. Instead they ditched everyone who paid the huge price tag just to go compete in industry where there are already a dozen different HMD companies, often already specialized for many fields like police, military, and fire fighting.
Glass was something new for consumers, it isn't even very good compared to older enterprise offerings. For enterprise work I'd much rather go with something more capable like an ORA that can do augmented reality by moving the display down, or Moverio or other entry.
- GuiA 11y agoWhy did you buy 2 glasses for your household? I sympathize with your situation, but it seemed always clear to me since the beginning that this was a device that Google was putting on sale mostly as a PR statement ("hey look, we don't do just ads, we can do innovative hardware too!"), with no future beyond the 6 months hype cycle. I'm curious to hear what you saw in it. Don't get me wrong, I also own early devices that turned out to be useless pieces of plastic (cough cough leap motion), but the price of Google Glass was just completely insane.
- plonh 11y agoFadell didn't launch Glass. Fadell recognized Glass was dead and have it a funeral.