I was really curious about spectacles, and bought a pair as soon as I could. I lost them about 3 weeks later, and that was that.
In some ways they were really cool, but the article was bang-on about pretty much everything. It's really a case study about how to fuck up a product roll-out.
Portability complications were a huge downer. The shaded lenses made them difficult to use indoors, and what wasn't mentioned was that the mic was hypersensitive to distortion from the slightest breeze, which made them useless outside as well.
But, as the article states:
>To drive demand, Snap needed to demonstrate all the creative things you could do with Spectacles, and the cool people who wore them.
In some ways they were really cool, but the article was bang-on about pretty much everything. It's really a case study about how to fuck up a product roll-out.
Portability complications were a huge downer. The shaded lenses made them difficult to use indoors, and what wasn't mentioned was that the mic was hypersensitive to distortion from the slightest breeze, which made them useless outside as well.
But, as the article states:
>To drive demand, Snap needed to demonstrate all the creative things you could do with Spectacles, and the cool people who wore them.
Why the fuck didn't they do this?