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Monday, October 6, 2025

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Monday, October 6, 2025

One year later: Is Google Glass a bust?

google-glassThis was the week the tide turned against 2013’s most widely-hyped technology product.

Google Glass sauntered through last year as the tech world’s golden child. Despite the“glasshole” meme and some natural shivers over privacy, Glass was tacitly crowned tech’s “this is the future” product of 2013.

But, on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show where wearables are shaping up to be the hottest category, larger doubts are starting to arise about Glass.

Robert Scoble, who was more responsible than anyone for hyping Glass with his effusive early review and his photo of using Glass in the shower, is now saying that Glass adoption is “doomed” in 2014 because of price and that Google needs to “reset expectations” to help the public see Glass as an experiment.

Following Scoble’s pronouncements, Jay Yarow wrote in Business Insider: “There’s a good chance that Glass is a fundamentally flawed product.”

Read the rest of the analysis at TechRepublic.

2 COMMENTS

  1. I’m shocked this isn’t a bigger deal – I’ve used Glass and it was actually pretty cool for what it was. I think the price is just too high and there isn’t enough consumer awareness as to what Glass actually does. Wearable technology will come around though!

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