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Title: Bogus analogies: Glass and Watch are not the same Post by: HCK on May 01, 2015, 09:00:09 pm Bogus analogies: Glass and Watch are not the same
<article> <section class="page"> <p> For this week’s lesson in false equivalencies, let’s go to the Forbes contributor network and home for helper monkey school dropouts. Ian Altman wants to explain “Why Google Glass Failed And Why Apple Watch Could Too.” (Tip o’ the antlers to @JonyIveParody (https://twitter.com/JonyIveParody/).)</p><p> “Could.” OK. It’s possible. But the thing is, Glass isn’t really a good case study for the Apple Watch for a lot of reasons. For example, did you know you don’t wear watches on your face? It’s true. Also, the Watch isn’t a threat to be taking video or snapshots of people at any given moment, inasmuch as it doesn’t take video or snapshots. So a lot of the social objections that dropped Glass like an overweight boxer just aren’t a problem for the Watch.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2916894/bogus-analogies-glass-and-watch-are-not-the-same.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Bogus analogies: Glass and Watch are not the same (http://www.macworld.com/article/2916894/bogus-analogies-glass-and-watch-are-not-the-same.html#tk.rss_all) |