I’m going to say something controversial: Google Glass was not a hit. For anyone that might be unaware of the Google Glass legacy, that’s obviously a joke, seeing as how the gadget spawned one of the most memorable pejoratives in consumer tech history; Glasshole.
When the pair of smart glasses launched back in 2013, it was a different world for one, but according to the glasses’ creator Sergey Brin, some, um, missteps were also made.
“I definitely feel like I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass, I’ll be honest,” Brin said in a fireside chat during Google’s I/O conference yesterday.
“I just didn’t know anything about consumer electronic supply chains, really, and how hard it would be to build that and have it at a reasonable price point and managing all the manufacturing and so forth,” he continued.
That admission, however honest, probably doesn’t do much to quell the sting Brin must feel seeing the category ascend via Google, Meta, and, sometime soon, maybe Apple and Samsung. Sorry, Sergey, sometimes things just happen too fast, too soon. —James Pero
