People already wear glasses every day. Even the version of Glass now is not that obtrusive and it's obviously going to get less so with time.
I doubt that it's mass market ready for a while though.
I thought the trend was going from glasses to contacts. Yes maybe more recently glasses have come back with the hipster trends, but if anything glasses aren't the way they were in the 80s and 90s anymore.
I'd say it's pretty obtrusive, and not everyone wants to walk around looking like that. I certainly don't. Anyway, this is more of a personal taste issue I guess.
But my point remains that comparing an iWatch to Glass is just ridiculous. You're comparing a watch which has existed for centuries, and is part of modern attire with something that's completely experimental. While I'd love for Glass to succeed, we don't know whether it will or not, or whether it will even take off. It could remain a niche market like bluetooth headsets.
I guess I'm just trying to understand the uses beyond a growl like system. If they do add a mic you could do short voice responses I guess, but it still seems very limited, and we all know it's not going to be cheap.
Actually, that has me thinking. I know you can set specific ring tones for certain contacts when they call, but we should be able to set a specific ring/alert for any kind of communication received by a certain contact.
I think the opportunities are limitless, but in terms of what we can execute today, it's a growl like solution. I think we can do it quite well too. Voice responses, etc. could come next, but I don't see it as a gen 1 device feature.
As for your second paragraph, you can set specific alert tones on an app-to-app basis no? Like my Gmail can give me a certain ringtone, while my Gtalk gives me another. Exchange mail gives me yet another ringtone. I guess it would be up to the watch to be able to process alerts, meaning it needs to be able to tie into apps. LightFlow is an example of an app that has tied into dozens of Android apps and can intercept their notifications and convert them into a standard notification.
Indeed it is, which is why I was surprised to see you calling out Android copy cats when we don't know what functionality the iWatch will have.
I think he's rallying against a certain type of copycats, and that is the ones who copy after seeing success of another. I think what we've seen is Android jump in after Apple after seeing Apple's reception. You could argue Apple copies too in the sense that it stole the clock for the iPad, multitouch gestures, Siri, etc, but all these features were relatively new at the time, and they didn't take off until Apple embraced them. So when you compare Apple stealing Samsung's MP3 player design and Samsung stealing Apple's iOS icons and look in the Galaxy S phones, you can instantly tell the difference.