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0 pointszdragnar2mo ago0 comments

I remember people with the Google glasses being called glassholes. The fact that companies are trying again and apparently succeeding tells you just how much

A) they believe in the idea

and / or

B) how much money there is to be made having people wear them.

Smart wearables as a general category of hardware have an awful rate of success, and hardware is much more expensive to get into than software. So, there's got to be a lot of money in the data consumers will be producing.

That's the part that scares me much more so than the random perverts using them in public for unsavory candid photos.

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wraptile2mo ago

It's sad that the gap between a "glasshole" and meta glasses is just a branded frame. If anything Meta has significantly worse public reputation now than Google during Google Glass time.

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benoau2mo ago

> B) how much money there is to be made having people wear them.

Meta have been desperately searching for “the next big walled garden” for like a decade.

The prize is clear: whatever the next big mass-consumer hardware device is with an app store attached will leech hundreds of billions in fees and enjoy absolute control over everyone building on it.

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