Truth to be told, the original Scoble's article is full of inaccuracies. First of all, not every Google employee is allowed to dogfood glass, it's only for the selected subset of internal and external people. Second, statements like "facebook is not on glass, therefore it's glass' fault" are simply BS. If facebook wanted to implement an app for glass, they could clearly do it, the SDK is available for a while. 'No contextual filtering', 'price is too high' and 'photo workflow sucks' are missing the point that the glass is the work in progress and cost of manufacturing, limited availability and free hardware upgrade for explorers totally justify the $1,500. Obviously, it's absolutely reasonable to expect the market price to be much less when glass goes for a public availability. And, I absolutely don't buy 'the product is bad' commentary from an apple fan boy, Gruber. What else one could expect him to say?
From an imaginary app-store reviewer diary: "Rejecting all of them, consistently, would in fact be no good at all. The feeling of being part of the monolith — of being the monolith — really only surges when I use my position to act capriciously. To act fairly would be to follow the rules. To act capriciously is to be the rules."
http://daringfireball.net/2009/05/diary_of_an_app_store_revi...
"Translation" of Apple PR into English: "We decided from the outset to set the formula for our bars-of-signal strength indicator to make the iPhone look good — to make it look as if it 'gets more bars'. That decision has now bitten us on our ass."
http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/translation_iphone_4
amaks: Gruber is a "fan boy" whom we can expect to say only positive things about his irrational religion, Apple.
jccc: Here are three examples (from three separate years) of not just criticism but particularly hostile points of view against Apple.
valleyer: Cherry-picking!
What amaks did not say: Maybe Gruber sometimes gives them heat for things they do, but he tends to favor Apple so take what he says with a grain of salt.
What jccc did not say: Gruber is totally even-handed and doesn't favor Apple any more than Samsung, Google or Palm.
