Comment by dhughes | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dhughes | Hacker News Reader

99% of the technology is having a really good connection either wifi or your phone company's wireless data.

I remember when I got a Nexus One and tried showing off the Google Translate app to co-workers; one Japanese, one Portuguese, one Bosnian but it took so long to connect it was embarrassing. I managed to get some Japanese translated after about 10 minutes.

Now I have a Samsung Galaxy S 2 (translate still sucks) through my phone company it has HSPA+ (21Mbps) but I have yet to consistently get anything above 3Mbps, I tend to get 1Mbps.

Also imagine this in a movie theatre or some place where they claim everything is copyrighted place or even walking towards police in a country where taking video of police could get you arrested.

It seems simple enough but holy can of worms Batman!

Not to mention that Google would be empowered to a live/recorded stream of video of every user.

That's a whole other can of worms for ya.

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Google would be empowered to a live/recorded stream of video of every user.

This sounds like the kind of feature that some users would embrace, and could even become a selling point. Remember justin.tv?

  A few years ago Google wanted to record a few seconds of sound from the homes of people using the microphones/speakers on their computers. 

  I'm quite sure it was the computer speaker since not every computer has a microphone but most if not all have speakers and a speaker is really a just a reverse microphone.

 People freaked out over that so I'd say recording live streams of video would be worse especially considering some things people may be looking at each day would be very private.

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