Where do you shop for glasses? My titanium ones were only a few hundred. Maybe a Hermès brand could be >$1000 but you’re buying for vanity there. The vast majority of frames are <$300.Eye glasses is a hugely profitable market. A fashionable pair costs more than an iPhone X. Imagine the profit margin Apple would command when fancy functions are embedded, of course, without making it creepy.
With Jony Ive involved, anything is possible.I could so see (no pun intended) someone modding them to look like a VISOR from Star Trek. Hook them up directly to your visual cortex, while they're at it.
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Ooh, what about the Borg? Tap into the brain's power, add in some form of wireless communication (wifi, LTE, whatever), and you'll be your own hotspot.
Apple Computer was no more in 2007, has been Apple Inc ever since.I miss the days when Apple Computer made... well, computers.
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Apple would be a bit short sighted doing this.
I’m assuming that you would buy the frames and then have your optician fit your prescription lenses?You already know that somewhere deep in Apple labs there is a working prototype that is knocking everyones socks off with the amazeballs of what it can do when linked to a next gen prototype watch and AirPods...
The future will be amazing. As long as it works with prescription lenses.... knowing Apples engineers they have found a away round that!
Apple has a history of taking big pokes at what they don't have for sale now but then seeming to forget such messaging as soon as they roll out their versions of the ridiculed.
No offense, but I don’t want “always on” glasses recording everywhere I go. THAT was the real failure of Google Glass... people don’t want OTHER PEOPLE recording them and then using the Internet to automatically identify them. There’s a whole host of privacy and data aggregator problems with “glasses” products. I’m sure ADVERTISERS love them because they can track all sorts of stuff, but people not do much.