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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Glassholes'
Wearing Google Glass made users feel like they didnt have to connect with the actual humans around them. Im elsewhere even though I appear to be staring right at you. Frankly the people who wore Google Glass were afraid of the people around them. And Glass gave them a strange transparent hiding place. A self-centered context for suffering through normal moments of uncomfortable close proximity. Does it matter that everyone around you is more uncomfortable for it?At least with a hand-held phone there was no charade. The very presence of the device in hand, head down, was a clear flag alerting bystanders to the momentary disconnect. At the moment, Im not paying attention to you.
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Suddenly we all realized what poor multi-taskers these people really were. Any wearer who actually wanted to interact with the real world quickly found they had to keep taking off their Google Glasses and stowing them, or else everyone got mad.
It was simply deemed unacceptable to wear them persistently. And in fact users reported to having been socially pressured to use them quite a lot as they had previously used their phones. Pulling them out as needed. Which utterly defeated the purpose. On some level thats what broke Google Glass. It wasnt what it was supposed to be. It wasnt persistent. It was more cumbersome and socially uncomfortable than the previous paradigm.
People who left them on in social situations were openly called glassholes.
http://theinteractivist.com/messages-from-the-future-the-fate-of-google-glass
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'Glassholes' (Original Post)
onehandle
Feb 2013
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Cleita
(75,480 posts)1. Weird. Kind of like a high tech ostrich head in the ground approach. n/t
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)2. wonder how much Apple paid him to write this?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)3. Why would they? Google Glasshole Glasses are compatible with iPhones.
Apple will make more money on them than Google ever will.
Apple has made more money off of Android than Google has (they've lost billions).
FSogol
(45,490 posts)4. We'll all have a good laugh when Apple comes out with some i-glasses
and the Apple cult begins to laud them.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)5. Since the author has put up his bio,
nykym
(3,063 posts)6. Shades of
They Live