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7 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · said 25 times in 15 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Benedict Evans (8), Zal Bilimoria (4), Ryan Hoover (3), Balaji Srinivasan (2), Adam Thierer (2), Vijay Balasubramaniyan (1), Rachel Kalmar (1), Peter Rubin (1)

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Everything said about Google Glass, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Evans: Google Glass was an experimental product test that failed
“Google's been incredibly quiet on glass for years. And, you know, the thing is really, you know, it's gone nowhere. You know, just, you know, we don't know. Maybe there'll be something will happen. Maybe it won't. But it feels like it was out there. It was a t…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:45 a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Opinion
Benedict Evans: Smartwatches offer a better ambient screen form factor than smartglasses
“I think there's a kind of a longer-term story here around watches, which seemed like a better way of having that ambient screen, maybe, than something that's kind of clamped onto your face.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:00 a16z Podcast | The Technology is Ready, So Where is the Internet of Things?
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Opinion
Benedict Evans: Google Glass is too limited and intrusive for consumer adoption
“I mean, in the short-term, it feels like Google Glass is probably too limited in its capability, and it's probably too intrusive in the form factor for anything other than an enterprise application, and I've seen a lot of really cool Google Glass enterprise ap…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:44 a16z Podcast | The Technology is Ready, So Where is the Internet of Things?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Evans: Apple Watch avoids Google Glass's intrusive social interface issues
“Again, Google Glass didn't do anything that you couldn't do with a smartphone but, you know, it kind of tried to do it in a different way. And so does the watch but without all the kind of the glass hole problems of the sort of imposing the screen between you …”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:30 a16z Podcast | What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Thierer: Immersive technology will face major backlash over psychological distraction
“Of course, Google Glass has subsided as a technology now, but that technology is still with us in other ways, and we're going to witness, I think, a lot of concern about the issues raised by a world of immersive technologies, including sort of psychological co…”
Adam Thierer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:34 a16z Podcast | Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chokshi: Google Glass will find its primary success in enterprise applications
“Although I think people would argue that, and this is not, we haven't talked about this in great detail, we don't have time to, that Google Glass would probably find its promise in the enterprise, because I know when we were working on that sort of thing back …”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:38 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Hoover: Snapchat has unique opportunity in AR where Google Glass failed
“What's so fascinating about Snapchat is they have such a unique opportunity to actually pull this off, whereas Google Glass was super dorky and nerdy and obviously not built for like a younger audience.”
Ryan Hoover Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:27 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
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