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Scoble on Glass: It’s “Doomed”

January 2, 2014 By Dan Rosenbaum

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.

 

Last updated by Dan Rosenbaum on January 14, 2014.

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