Methinks the author really needs to read <i>Crossing the Chasm</i>, and understand the difference between early adopters and early majority. Google Glass doesn't <i>need</i> to be pretty and perfect right out of the box. It just needs to be far enough along that the early adopters will use it to shake out the bugs. A mainstream market is still a rev or three down the road.<p>What Google Glass needs isn't to be instantly perfect and mainstream. No, it just needs to avoid becoming a Segway. That's the hard part.
I expected them to mention the camera and microphone. It's not the only thing to pick on but it's what killed my interest in a devkit. The camera turns me from an idiot wearing some nerdy bullshit into asshole. I'll gladly look like an idiot if I have to, but I'm not going to force a camera into social situations and expect people to be OK with it using "just deal with it" rationalizations about how expectations w/r/t cameras are changing.