Google Glass

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I wouldn’t be surprised if Glass has some success in the specialist market. It would seem ideally suited for environments where functionality trumps style, such as a warehouse, a call centre. Also firms are a lot less price sensitive than consumers and don’t demand a large range of software; often they’ll buy devices, such as PCs, to run just one piece of software such as POS software.

The problem with that is it’s a tiny market. Or even worse it’s a series of tiny markets. Sales to firms running warehouses don’t help you much selling to e.g. doctors. Make a sale and you might sell a thousand units in one go but that’s nothing. And you need to do it all over again for the next firm, and the next.

Google would surely leave that to other firms as they aren’t a corporate services firms. They make money mostly by giving stuff away for free then selling adverts. For Glass to fit into that it has to be mass market.

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Why Google Glass Broke

Basically a post-mortem, but it includes the following on their future plans:

Several people with knowledge of Mr. Fadell’s plans for Glass said he was going to redesign the product from scratch and would not release it until it was complete. “There will be no public experimentation,” one adviser to Mr. Fadell said. “Tony is a product guy and he’s not going to release something until it’s perfect.”

So don’t expect anything anytime soon.

[Deckard]

Tbh is anyone surprised - an absolute lemon from the start.

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New sighting. Looks even less impressive, but these are early prototype photos it looks like:
New Google Glass model hits the FCC website, images included

[Deckard]

Bump - so Facebook , sorry Meta crashed and burnt too - who’d have thunk ?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/3/23818 ... ality-labs

Keep losing those billions Meta….