Google Glasses were directionally right yet too early.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

Aspiring mad scientist,
support team @ /rainbow

Only if you’re not willing to commit — they could have kept iterating but instead chose to kill it

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

Only to come back later with the iPhone and iPad — Sculley was bad at understanding consumers, Jobs knew how to pivot and succeed

In retrospect, shelving & coming back isn’t quitting. I agree that if timing isn’t right you might have to pause but google’s ever growing graveyard of products that never get an alternative is giving up. Snap continues to pursue AR, even though the predecessor products were flops. Apple eventually got their PDA.

Sometimes you have to shelve projects and come back later.

Determination won't get you anywhere if all your dependencies and the market aren't ready for what you're building.

Snap tried glasses too and went nowhere.

Meta got lucky that multi-modal models provide a more compelling use case for smart glasses.