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?
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.