Back during WWDC 2017, Apple unveiled a new speaker for the home called: HomePod. This is Apple’s first take on the smart speaker space that has been heavily dominated by the likes of Amazon and Google. With the HomePod, Apple talked about the smartness of this speaker. This speaker has the ability to sense the room and location in that room it is in to delivery crisp sound.
I haven’t watched the keynote yet; however, from what I have read Apple has made some nice tweaks to all their OS’s.
What stood out to you?
So I was able to purchase my Google Glass: Explorer Edition the other day…
However… I had to turn it down. As much as I would like to have this… the cost was what turned me away. I didn’t mind saving up the $1600 to get this product. I didn’t mind saving up the $1600 to be a beta tester of this product. The money for the product, at first, didn’t really mean much to me. What bothered me was going to get the Google Glass…
Google expected me to fly out to California or to New York. Paying for the Glass was already going to cost a leg… and then paying for the airfare, back and forth, to pick them up was going to cost me an arm. Just airfare, alone, was going to run me around $600. That would be ON TOP of the cost of the Google Glass. This just started to look like a very very expensive beta project.
I was hoping Google would of included the pickup fee at no extra cost, and/or would have had the option to ship this to me. Unfortunately, I didn’t get either.
So instead of helping Google beta test Project Glass… I will have to wait til these are available to the public in a year or two. Instead… I used the money to purchase a new, much needed, laptop.
To all the folks that will have the Explorer Editions, I envy you and will be jealous. I am sad that I passed on this opportunity; however, the cost could not be justified.
Robert1ee
