The father of iPod takes over Google Glass and will give it a new life

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Although the title seems a bit incongruous, this actually happened.

The background story is: Tony Fadell, the father of iPod, and team member Matt Rogers founded the smart home brand Nest Labs after leaving Apple, and released the smart thermostat Nest and the smart smoke detector Nest Protect respectively. Both products have won unanimous reputation in the industry for their outstanding industrial design and advanced concepts, becoming the most representative brands in the smart home trend.

The earlier story is: Shortly after joining Apple in 2001, Tony Fadell proposed the concept of the first generation iPod to Jobs, and began to form and lead the team. At the end of the same year, the first generation iPod was launched. Since then, it has been iterated 18 times and has become one of the most classic and best-selling product lines in Apple's history. Tony Fadell is also known as the "Father of iPod." After becoming the senior vice president of the iPod department, Tony Fadell resigned and started Nest Labs soon after.

Everyone knows the story that followed. On January 14, 2014, Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion, and Tony Fadell became a Google talent.

Naturally, we all thought that Tony Fadell would lead Google's unfulfilled "Android@Home" project. However, the current news is that Tony Fadell will become the new head of the Google Glass project, and at the earliest stage, Google has announced the death of the first generation of Google Glass and will no longer conduct public testing of this product in the future.

Google Glass's plan to dominate the headlines is not over yet. Nick Bilton, a reporter from the New York Times, revealed in his long article that according to people close to Tony Fadell, Google Glass will be completely redesigned and will not be publicly tested before it reaches its final form. The anonymous person said: "There will be no more public testing. Tony is a product supremacist and he will not release a product before it is perfect."

The implication is that Google Glass was released a bit hastily. Nick Bilton recorded that a former Google employee said that the Google X department believed that Google Glass was not ready for release at the time, but their boss, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, wanted to release the product first and then improve it based on consumer feedback. However, it turned out that a pioneering product like Google Glass was not enough to reach the general public.

Last year, we wrote an article titled "Killing Google Glass and Reincarnating It", which is still relevant today. At that time, we said that the direction of Google Glass was not wrong, but it needed to be rebuilt from the system and product form. The first generation of Google Glass needed many innovations, and some of the latest upstream technologies can be implemented on a new Google Glass.

Judging from the products Tony Fadell has delivered before, whether it is the iPod or the Nest thermostat, they are all mature products that can be directly sold to mass consumers, so this reborn version of Google Glass is also worth looking forward to.