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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (11 children)

And besides the tech bros with the throw away money, many of the people who have bought this thing are “influencers” and now are having trouble figuring out how to make content with or about this thing, because it’s early adopter play tech and has very little actual use, so the influencers are the ones putting out videos like “what would I even do with this?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Hilarious. It doesn't even look cool to wear it. It's slightly better than Google Glass, but what are you going to do with it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I mean, as I pointed out, before an App Store, not much. After an App Store and some competition there are crazy cool applications. Cooking? The device can show you how much of your food to chop, where to put it, visually measure a teaspoon or tablespoon or whatever for you, automatically start a timer when you get the chicken in the pan or whatever. Look up at the stars and see constellations, flights, weather, etc overlaid by your view. On-road gps directions where there is an arrow video game style showing you where to go. Apps that could assist in things like building legos by showing you which pieces to grab and where they go. Looking down over the earth while on a flight to see exactly what landmark/town/area/state you are looking at. There are awesome applications to the tech. Whether we will see them or not is a matter of speculation. Apple is advertising a 3500 dollar headset with cool hardware and boring ass software right now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

but people have been cooking, monitoring the sky and roamed the world for some ten thousand years now. what's the innovation here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It has a logo of an apple on it now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

But $3500 to tell me which LEGO to pick up is totally worth it.

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