You had to live in the US to buy one. Google is a worldwide company and if they wanted to sell a product they'd have sold it to their customers, not just a select few. It was a test product, not meant for the general public. Which is fine. I've never seen one anywhere. I'm guessing there are many other people, even in the US, that have never seen one either. It wasn't unpopular because of its characteristics, but rather because it wasn't marketed AT ALL.

But you have to 1 - already know that something called Google Glass exists. 2 - know what the hell it is. 3 - be willing to shell out a fortune for an in-development toy. Each of those is the complete opposite of how to successfully sell consumer electronics. Google always meant for this iteration of the product to be for testing only. For example, they weren't even selling it in Canada.

They never got it out of 'testing'. Chromecast is selling from Best Buy. Why isn't Google Glass sitting right next to it? Oh, it's because it's hardly even a beta product.

Until it's on a store shelf it isn't for sale. It was never advertized as a consumer product. It wasn't even promoted. To get it you had to go out of your way to even find out where you were supposed to get the damn thing.

Actually it's more like the old people staying at fancier hotels get this smug feeling of "My hotel has wifi, and it only costs an extra $20. This is awesome." Everyone else, mostly the younger crowd, are at cheaper places and know that wifi should be free so those hotels can't get away with screwing them.

And you screwed up too. You said "It Marriott" instead of "it's". LOL.

I think it's the defence that has more to gain by confounding the jurors.

But it doesn't help when the other side benefits from obfuscation and ambiguity and essentially trying to screw up your understanding.

Samsung is coming out with a new line of phones that run SystemD instead of Android.

I don't have air conditioning. The Chromecast isn't exactly faulty, it's just not properly designed to be fanless. There's no thought whatsoever given to cooling, but for $30 that's what you get.

I have a Chromecast, which is a mini PC on a dongle. It has a fanless design, but it desperately needs on. Trying to keep it cool in the summer is difficult and after ten minutes it's too hot and stalls.

Like everything new it isn't fully developed. But you'll be wrong about business, medical, and government use much sooner than you think.

And you have to add an electronic sensor anyway for logging and transmitting and whatever else.

If anybody knows about refrigeration it's probably the people that designed the cooling system on the ISS.

When there are a thousand sensors it gets problematic to monitor all of them. That's why we invented electronic sensors, so that we could use software to do all the work of monitoring them, logging data, triggering alarms, etc.