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If she's going to write about a product, maybe she should actually use it, given that she actually has a pair.

It's bad enough when journalists write about a product without having it. She has it, but she's not using it, and then she's writing sweeping articles about it's long-term future.

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Not only that, but you could replace 'Glass' with any mobile technology over the last decade (many of which are wildly successful consumer devices), and the 'review' still makes perfect sense (albeit, with the same, incorrect, conclusions). Maybe that should have been a signal to the author...

Yeah this is the same thing that happened with the iPad (it's a huge iPhone without the phone part? who would ever buy that?!) and more recently, with Windows 8 (metro is a failure! Microsoft is doomed!).

Google Glass, in its current iteration, will likely never catch on with consumers. But it's a limited availability "preview" for a reason. Something like this is eventually going to get cheap enough and usable enough that consumers will buy it.

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