Apple Blogger: Sorry, The Only People Excited About Google Glass Are 'Nerds'

Google Developers/Google+The prevalent thought in the tech press right now is that Apple has lost its innovative edge and that Google has gained one.

People point to the excitement around Google's computerized glasses, self-driving cars, and new laptop, the Chrome Pixel.

Meanwhile, they look at Apple and note that it hasn't invented a new product category since 2010, when it launched the iPad.

Daring Fireball's John Gruber has had enough of it. He says the only people getting excited about Google's innovations are "nerds" – while normal people still love Apple.

Plus, says Gruber, Apple is actually shipping its products.

Gruber:

Google Glass absolutely is generating buzz, but it’s not “the sort of buzz usually reserved for Apple products”. Glass has nerds excited; Apple products get the general public excited, and often annoy nerds by being iterative improvements that press the “familiar but better” button instead of the “new and different” button.

On the one hand, we have actual shipping products from Apple that are critically acclaimed and selling in record numbers (and for record profits); on the other, a $1300 laptop that only runs a web browser and a HUD headset that will supposedly ship at the end of the year from Google. And this somehow shows that Apple is slumping.