There is perhaps no more public supporter of Google Glass than pundit Robert Scoble. So it was something of a surprise to read a posting (It’s on Google Plus, and you may need to be a member to read it) where he says, “Google Glass is doomed… [b]ecause the tech press tells me so.”
He goes on to enumerate Glass’s failings, most of which we wrote about recently.
- It’s too expensive.
- It looks dorky.
- People are suspicious about it.
- It’s too expensive.
- It doesn’t do enough.
- It requires too much training.
- Battery life stinks.
- There’s no app ecosystem.
There are other complaints, most of them valid, some of them whiny. And Scoble, like us, points out that Glass is still more of an experiment than a product. He says it’ll be a real product by 2020. That’s pessimistic. I give it to 2016.
