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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway
The industry thing is what I'm thinking...from process to reliablity this could open up a new world. The upside, and there is a huge upside is the process improvements relating to increased productivity. The increased relaibility in terms of reduced downtime etc...
Now you got me thinking of several apps that could support such a device!
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Whenever a new consumer electronics technology starts getting hyped for its vertical or industrial applications, that is a very bad sign. It means that the companies can't see an actual high-volume consumer market.
Remember when the early PC-based tablets had flopped in the consumer market but people were saying they'd be great for medical or sales use? Tablets then sank without a trace in the broader market (and didn't do a whole lot in the vertical markets either) and weren't revived until the iPad.
Vertical applications are very low volume, units in the 10,000s. That is not enough scale to bring down the costs, justify new chip or software development, attract apps beyond the special-purpose industrial ones. You need units in the 1,000,000s to develop a consumer electronics market.
I've been hearing the talk about Google Glass'es industrial uses, and I interpret it negatively.