A little more than a year ago, I did a post with a typically subtle headline: "Why Google Glass Will Fail Miserably [7]". Well, this just appeared in Reuters [8], and although its headline isn't as blunt as mine, the article pretty much states that Glass is every bit the flop I predicted it would be.
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Some highlights from the article......
+ "Of 16 Glass app makers contacted by Reuters, nine said that they had stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device."
+ Among the developers, one small, unimportant outfit that's ditched Glass is a firm named Twitter
+ Glass now sells on eBay for as little as half list price.
+ "Alex Foster began See Through, a Glass advertising analytics firm for business, after a venture firm earlier this year withdrew its offer to back his consumer-oriented Glass fitness company when it became clear no big consumer Glass release was imminent."
+ And the corker: “It looks super nerdy,” said Shvetank Shah, a Washington, DC-based consultant, whose Google Glass now gathers dust in a drawer. “I’m a card carrying nerd, but this was one card too many.”
So there.