Dear Google,
Thank you for the opportunity to join the recent wave of Google Glass Explorers last month. As a longtime user of Google products, I had been awaiting this opportunity ever since I didn’t make it into the ranks of Glass pioneers last year. The ability to integrate a heads-up display with my Google+, Google Play and Google Maps accounts was promising indeed, so I was thrilled to receive my package.
After three weeks of usage, I have changed my mind. Please find enclosed a charcoal-gray Glass Explorer Edition package. I anticipate my refund.
For further customer feedback, please read the following items.
Yours sincerely,
Matt Lake
1. Eye contact (or lack thereof)
2. Not a good listener
3. Battery death
4. Bulk
5. Conspicuousness
6. Tilted photos
7. Directions drawbacks
8. Oh, that earbud
9. Explorer envy
10. Too little, too soon
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Par for the course for Our Lady of Perpetual Beta.
Related articles:
My awkward week with Google Glass – April 30, 2014
Through a Google Glass, darkly; surveillance of, by, and for the people – April 18, 2014
Spyware app can secretly take photos from Google Glass without user’s knowledge – March 26, 2014
Google Glass-wearing woman claims attack at San Francisco bar – February 26, 2014
Scoble: Google Glass is doomed – January 2, 2014
One year wearing Google Glass: ‘Look at that asshole’ – December 31, 2013
Why an Apple iWatch has better chances than Google Glass – November 6, 2013
Apple’s Siri lambastes Google Glass – August 26, 2013
Google Glass ban list grows; top 10 places banning Google Glass – August 7, 2013
Well done Google for trying.
Who’s going to be the first to get it right?
Not Microsoft.
And notice that Apple doesn’t release beta hardware crap. Apple only releases a product when it is ready for use and doesn’t use the general public as its beta testers who have to pay for the product.
Why I’m sending back Google Glass?
Cause I was dumb enough to use them.
. . . and even dumber for paying for them.
He forgot “the display sucks.” My nephew had one of these Glassholic mistakes, I took one look and handed them back. Not even close to ready for prime time, if ever. Blech.
i’ll buy anyones used glass for negative 3 dollars but i will pay for shipping. seller gets a profit of negative $2.60
They can make up for it in volume?
Google glass – A glasshole from the asshole of a mole in a pink cowboy hat, what’s wrong with that picture?
So now this $1500 POS covered with his ear cheese and various other bodily cheeses with be resold to some other google fawn. That is both nasty and cool at the same time.
thats just from his perspective.
Here’s Mine:
1. Privacy – YOU’RE INVADING MINE.
2. I have got to stop hanging out with this GLASS-HOLE the girls are running away from us.
I remember the commercial years back where it had the yupster in the city park with glasses on saying things like scroll up, back, SELL… or something…
The concept is solid and not new, but this is something for dedicated work environments. There are better form factors for feeding info for casual consumption. I have said from the beginning that these will come in handy in certain work environments or for gaming, but not as a mass market general consumer accessory like a like a watch or cellphone.
Google Glass will be like a Segway for your face. Both are inventions that were touted as world-changing innovations. The Segway instead became a moderately-successful novelty product with niche applications. Glass will be the same way. There will be areas that will find a use for the thing, but we will not have cities full of people talking to their cyborg eye-wear as they walk down the street.
——RM
Probably Porn industry will adopt this first. Brings new meaning to POV movies. lol
He forgot to add, “I don’t want to get beaten up.”
Just a heads-up, it should be “head-up” display.
I notice except for some events, you never see Page and Brin wearing those dopey things. You NEVER see Schmidt wearing them. Oh, that’s right, they don’t want data collected about themselves.
Whenever anybody advises to not step in that dogshit over there, all I can think of is “ha, ha! You stepped in dogshit!”
You’re a Glasshole without props.