Sigh. First it was the Apple TV. Then it became smartwatches. Now we’re moving on to Google Glass competitors. People, this is all bullshit. Made-up nonsense to get hits. Headlines like ‘X to release Y competitor’ score a double whammy; X blogs will get excited about it, Y blogs will complain about X being a copycat. So, with one made-up story you score double the amount of hits. It’s a variant on the old but now rarely used ‘X to release Y killer’, where ‘Y’ was usually an Apple product.
else Apple would lose it’s edge!
The human race creates how many petabytes more per year of “content”? I get the impression that if the semantic web ever rolls forth, we’ll have to redefine the size of the internet by well over 1/10th.
When I saw the headline I definitely thought this was going to be about Xorg, Wayland, and the now dead Y Windows project.
I though the same thing when I saw it in my RSS feed. That would have been more interesting than this. Ohh well.
Today: X to buy Y because X’s solution needs more users.
Don’t forget Baidu’s attempt to jump on the bandwagon:
http://www.techinasia.com/google-glass-baidu-confirms-baidu-eye-ar-…
OSNews has been guilty of doing this too, but you guys don’t even have the courtesy to put ‘RUMOR’ in the title.
Examples?
I have never made up a fake story for hits. I would love to see your examples.
Edited 2013-04-08 09:02 UTC
You’ve never made up a fake story as far as I know, but you sure have no issues with linking to them, and presenting them as authentic. Here is one… I know it’s not recent, but it’s the one that immediately comes to mind:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25210/Sprint_Signs_20_Billion_iPhone_De…
Edited 2013-04-08 21:50 UTC
XX to release XY competitor.
Why have I read “X to release Y compositor” and thought the news is about the new life in display server scene?![;)](https://www.osnews.com/images/emo/smile.gif)
Surely this is old news, MS have been playing about with wearable computing for decades… Even recently they got granted Another patent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/27/microsoft-augmente…
That’s how the entire PC industry, and much that came with it, was built.