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Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable (engadget.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

An anonymous reader writes: FCC filings published today are offering a glimpse of the "Enterprise Edition" of Google Glass. According to Engadget: "...The work-focused eyepiece touts a much slicker (and likely more durable) design with both a larger display prism and a hinge that lets you fold it up for travel. The test photos also reveal a spot for a magnetic battery attachment and what looks to be a speedier Atom processor. There's still no word on when Google will announce this headset, although the FCC presence hints that it might not take long."

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  1. another predictably failed product by sittingnut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    really?! seems throwing money at product development seems to make developers ever more blind to the obvious defects in the whole concept of this device.

    1. Re:another predictably failed product by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Every device has defects in it's concept. The only question is does the defects outweigh the benefits?

      Social acceptance of someone wearing some tech in a bar would indicate no even if the reasons for it are absurd.
      Benefits of real time HUD and augmented reality when performing functions that require on the fly information on the other hand would indicate yes.

      Why shouldn't developers continue working on a device if it only fails one specific use case? I can't use my phone in the cinema without getting the crap kicked out of me does that mean they shouldn't exist or be developed at all? After all it's an obvious defect in the concept of the device.

    2. Re:another predictably failed product by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      No I'm using the phone is equivalent. Put down the pedantry and actually try and comprehend the post. I'll sum it up for you:
      Just because it doesn't fit YOUR specific use case doesn't mean all development should be abandoned on it and doesn't make the concept broken.

      Also if you want to suggest I'm comparing glass to a phone then I will: How successful do you think the mobile phone was in it's first year? Hell I'll make this easy on you, how successful do you think it was in it's first 5 years? What about the smartphone which went through some 10 years worth of development before it became popular, with people who had exactly the same attitude as you saying it'll never be accepted and it's a broken concept?

      You want to declare something a broken concept after only a very VERY short development period during which the product never left it's initial beta? Man I hope you don't actually work in the tech industry, that would be sad for all of us.

  2. Re:Glasholes by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What company is going to let its employees bring in spyware?

    Any company that allows cellphones.