TIME Names iPhone Most Influential Gadget of All Time

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But the point is that it will have a big influence all such products that come after it.

For example, follow up glasses will probably have an LED to show if it's recording (although it was not that hard to tell with Glass anyway).

Google Glass was not a mass consumer product. It was an experiment that Google allowed a portion of the public to try out, if they wished.

Imagine how cool it would be if Apple allowed the public to buy and try out some of its internal R&D projects. That's what Glass was like.

Apple are a serious company who think long and hard, and then refine and polish, refine again and THEN release it. Google just play around, release "products" and start myriad "projects", and then abandon a lot of them a year or so later. I respect Apple HUGELY for NOT adopting Google's half-baked "This looks cool right now, let's try this" approach, regardless of how "cool" it may be, I am glad they operate as they do

Google: King of half-baked, over-hyped, under-achieving products.

 

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Amusing how the complete flop that was "Google Glass" is pushed RIGHT to the bottom of the rankings (if it could go FURTHER down the rankings no one would miss it, what a complete joke of a product.)

One can imagine that all the nerdy Google fanboy voyeurs are pretty annoyed with that. Ah well!

To be fair, vast majority of products didn't even make it into the rankings, so being anywhere in there rankings in a sense puts it ahead of most things out there.