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I’ve been reading up on the 2012-2015 era of Google lately and it’s still wild to me how they went from that insane skydiving demo at Google IO to being banned in bars and restaurants almost overnight.

It feels like a perfect storm of bad timing. They were trying to sell "exclusivity" and luxury while the Snowden leaks were happening and everyone was getting paranoid about privacy. I just finished making a short documentary/deep dive on the whole timeline, from the Vogue magazine ads to the Robert Scoble shower photo that basically became a meme and killed the brand's "cool factor."

I'm curious if anyone here actually bought the Explorer edition back then? Was it as buggy as the reports said, or was the social backlash just too much to overcome?

https://youtu.be/lzcri2Gbqxg