Apple considers making lots of things. Is there an Apple story generator where you just pick a random product and it generates an article speculating that Apple is considering entering that market?
Quickly, Apple is descending into a company flailing and thrashing at an attempt to recapture some imaginary magic moment as viewed in hindsight through rose-colored glasses.<p>Unfortunately, even if they start selling rose-colored glasses, it won't necessarily promote the perception of similar sentimental metaphors in their clientelle.<p>Apple sort of needs a quiet period, in my opinion. There's a degree of fatigue to their capacity to impress.<p>How many times can you say "wow" about a company before you stop meaning it?<p>Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe giving up any amount of inertia is death, for a large complicated organisation.<p>Whatever the case, I hate the idea of constantly being on everyone else's eyeglass cam, every time I step out in public. Apple's niche fashion accessory product angle isn't going to change my visceral reaction to that idea.
I am going to check my preconceived notion this is 1) A horrible idea/product 2) false-- and be opened minded. I ask the following questions of anyone knowledgeable of the space or otherwise having a strong bg in EE:<p>- Is it possible to power a device like this for > 8 hours?<p>- How difficult would it be to create a device like "promised". By that I mean, a fully fleshed out google glass, one that conceptually delivers things like object recog, nightvision, camera, HUD.<p>Google glass failed (imo) for 2 major reasons, and I only see one of them has changed.<p>1) The interface was terrible. Apple can solve this with a combo of offloading processor & peripheral interfaces with the watch & an iphone. The phone has a more robust processor & the interface is not voice, but potentially 2 different devices.<p>2) Hardware. As alluded to, interfacing with the device was painful, but the device itself didnt deliver due to HW limits. Apple can bypass some computing by offloading to a phone or secondary device, but battery life is still a limit...for both devices.<p>If apple shifts-- and they have; from the hub being a computer, to the cloud and now ultimately the phone; can they deliver the battery power? Not only will the phone be the brain of potentially 2 devices on top of its own functionality, but the conputing power, graphic processing power, networking and battery life need to increase both for the phone-- the hub, but all peripherals.<p>Can Apple (or anyone) deliver on this with current tech, or do we need better battery tech & smaller cpu / networking?