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"tell us what you would do if you had Glass" - uh oh, this is exactly how Google Wave started. They are asking because it is a cool tool and they don't know how people will get real value yet.


It's also exactly how they started with Android.


I'm not trying to be a fanboy here but as far as I can tell, Android borrowed a lot from iOS until it matured enough. Only after, they started experimenting, added great stuff on it and diverged for better.

What role model does Glass have now?


This isn't really comparable. Clearly there are hundreds of uses for a always-available video or photo recorder.


"Clearly there are hundreds of uses.." - and that was exactly the introduction for the Google code camp for Wave. Uses and value at Google scale are 2 different things.


I don't buy the comparison. Wave was a software product with a complete different paradigm for communication and had huge switching costs. This is a webcam you can wear on your head. The market for portable video cameras was validated in the 1970s.


Right. And those products already exist e.g. GoPro.




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