Google on the downfall Glass: we were too open ~ lotfi

mardi 17 mars 2015

Google on the downfall Glass: we were too open

Google Glass was always an experiment for Google, but it could have been much more successful than it ultimately was.

Now Google X research lab head Astro Teller has taken the stage at Austin's SXSW festival to talk about what happened and why.

Teller said the Glass Explorer program, by which the company let people try out Google Glass earlier than your average consumer, was a "great decision."

Their biggest misstep, though, was that "We allowed, and sometimes even encouraged, too much attention to the program," Teller said, adding that they should have made it more clear that Glass was not a finished product.

Google X's attitude is that failure helps them learn, and the consumer version of Google Glass is (probably) still coming some time down the road. Hopefully we'll hear all about it at Google IO 2015 this May.