If I had Glass

[charlieegan3]

I can't believe you just hashtagged excitement.

Lol

Neither can I...

 

[cynics]

I'm confused? Google (marketing company) ads and data collection are bad but apples (hardware company) iAd's and data tracking in iOS are ok?

First thing I did when I got my iOS 6 was setting > general > about > advertising > limit ad tracking > on. Then apple dropped UDID support (yay!) in favor of advertising identifier (boo!) which is mildly better for privacy and we can reset the identifier (iOS 6.1+).

Regardless I think we are just talking about the lesser of two evils.

 

[McCool71]

I'm confused? Google (marketing company) ads and data collection are bad but apples (hardware company) iAd's and data tracking in iOS are ok?

Yep, you're in that part of the internet now - things are quite a bit distorted here.

This reminds me of the classic Jobs vs Gates photo that goes something like:

ROLE MODEL: Ran his company like a dictatorship, making employees fear for their jobs on a regular basis, didn't want anything to do with his daughter, rarely gave to charity (Jobs)

RUTHLESS BUSINESS MAN: Wrote code alongside his employees for years, donated billions to charity/health programs in undeveloped countries while working and even more after retiring (Gates)

 

[charlieegan3]

ROLE MODEL: Ran his company like a dictatorship, making employees fear for their jobs on a regular basis, didn't want anything to do with his daughter, rarely gave to charity (Jobs)

RUTHLESS BUSINESS MAN: Wrote code alongside his employees for years, donated billions to charity/health programs in undeveloped countries while working and even more after retiring (Gates)

Hits the nail on the head.

 

[Giuly]

Google ads based on what your iris' are pointing at. Loving it already.

For my taste, that's beyond what Schmidt dubbed the 'creepy line', because it interferes too much with the way we perceive the world. Even if Apple comes up with glasses I'd hesitate to wear them, regardless of whether those things are done the right way and giving you immediately universal knowledge or not.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Evernote is one of the first apps launching on Google Glass! I feel smug.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/11/4091426/google-teases-path-skitch-new-york-times-on-project-glass

 

[charlieegan3]

Evernote is one of the first apps launching on Google Glass! I feel smug.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/11/4091426/google-teases-path-skitch-new-york-times-on-project-glass

It's interesting the part at the end about only choosing services that improve your life. So google gets to decide what that is?

 

[stevensr123]

I'm gonna way until the big designer designer brands come on board, like ray ban etc i won't get it until it looks like a normal set of glasses.

Set what you want but these glasses look fugly, and they won't get on until its sociably acceptable, if google glass has a design like normal glasses, then it will already be sociably acceptable. I know this post sounds wrong, but it's how the world works.

 

[Drunken Master]

I know this post sounds wrong, but it's how the world works.

If that's wrong, then I don't want to be right.

 

[mattopotamus]

I'm gonna way until the big designer designer brands come on board, like ray ban etc i won't get it until it looks like a normal set of glasses.

Set what you want but these glasses look fugly, and they won't get on until its sociably acceptable, if google glass has a design like normal glasses, then it will already be sociably acceptable. I know this post sounds wrong, but it's how the world works.

put it this way....if people are embarrassed to pull out a phone and talk on it because of the size....do you really think they will wear glasses from the future!

 

[b166er]

I think glass, and products like it, are really going to supplement the touch screen. Not this year or anything, but in the next several. We will be touching our phones (or really we should be saying pocket sized computers at this point) and interacting with them more with stuff like glass. Smart Watches and Glass are totally dependent on your phone, as is your bluetooth headset. But if you can do the majority of your average functions without touching the phone, and just use the actual phone for bigger tasks- I think that is the real goal here.

A lot of people will resist glass and products like it. But a lot of people resisted bluetooth headsets. I'm not saying the touchscreen will be replaced- just that as time goes on our interaction with our computers will become much more seamless.