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Outside of this tech bubble that we are all in, many use them as their primary (or only) computer. More than 60% of internet traffic is from mobile phones.

Titanium is about 3-4x the density, they're normally light only because less material can be used... which is probably problematic when used as an enclosure for electronics.

Titanium for electronics isn’t much of a problem (look at Apple Watch and a bunch of Apple product). The issue is that it’s a considerably more expensive material (every cents count when you scale to consumer electronics) and a bit harder to work with.

We were talking about weight -- you don't hang those devices on your face.

Titanium glasses are lightweight because a very minimal amount of material is used. This is possible for regular glasses because you can make them with a ~1mm cross-section. When you want to put electronics inside of them, you need much more material.


Although parent asking for titanium for the feeling, so maybe something in-between would be fine? Lightweight material inside and structurally, but titanium or something else as the "skin".

I don't think a titanium coating over something else is going to deliver that.

I think the reason titanium glasses feel nice is primarily because they have minimal contact with your skin and very low mass.

My frames weigh 6 grams, with lenses they're 14 grams. The Meta Ray Bans are 50 grams. If you could make the frames from pure helium they still wouldn't feel close.


Like a surfboard, or a toucan's beak.

I assume the poster above imagined the something inside could just be voids, like a tiny aircraft. But yes, some kind of low density filler could also add some stability in areas you don't want mass metal but also don't have electronics or battery "cargo".


Does sheet titanium not exist? I know it’s a tough metal, I don’t know if it would be feasible to make it out of folded sheet titanium.

Edit: Just checked, it does exist.


The weight is the issue. The guy above said he doesn't like the weight of acetate glasses. Acetate frames for traditional glasses are 10-20 grams. Titanium frames for traditional glasses are 5-10 grams.

Between the weight of material and the electronics, I don't really see anything approaching the feel that someone that discerning would want.


Yep, but seems like the discussion was around solid titanium, that's why I mentioned sheet titanium. I can't see how making the fame out of thin titanium with hard bends (like how computer cases are made of steel sheets, but on a small scale) would make it weigh more than the solid acetate version. Should also be much stronger.

The "solid" frame titanium glasses I'm wearing right now are 0.5mm thick. If you were to put a housing the same thickness around a 60x10mm cylinder you've got something about the weight of an acetate frame, with zero electronics inside. Add the electronics and you've got something heavier, just with titanium as the material.

I mean, the material is nice, but you're not making it light weight that way.


You may be right, but I think they are imagining a tubular frame construction. It would contain a volume of battery or electronics inside the hollow skin.

I guess the problem is can you extrude and form something so small with the precision and metallurgical properties you want to maintain. You probably don't want to just cast it in the final shape, right?


The point being made was, the weight saving from titanitum isn't going to be noticeable when the bulky of the weight is the electronics.

In that case, the savings would be little.

Ah, didn't see this comment. Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking, a hollow structure.

Why? If 1mm cross section titanium is just as or stronger why does it need to be thicker? For anchors?

Because the electronics used in smart glasses go inside of the frames. It's not a structural problem, it's a packaging problem.

Even if it’s an order of magnitude more expensive, they would make money on the glasses. Oakley (and every brand controlled by the Luxotica monopoly) glasses have extreme margins. On the order of, could be sold for under $20 making a profit but are sold for $300+. I don’t think the titanium work and the electronics can offset that.

The material is not the majority of the expense. The cost comes from the difficulty encountered when working the metal using standard tooling. It is difficult to work, low tolerance and high failure rates made it impractical prior to modern (very expensive) machines.

I'm guessing that is a facetious response, but in case it isn't: this is just plain old fraud.

I don't think that's fraud unless its done by the channel operator. Me as an end user auto-clicking ads is not even in the same ballpark as actual fraud.

> I don't think that's fraud unless its done by the channel operator.

That's exactly what the parent comment suggested.


Sounds like you just need to execute on it fast enough that the government cant respond before youre too big to fight. standard strategy

Not really. Click fraud isn't anything new, it has existed for decades, and there are many ways that it can be (and currently is) mitigated privately. The most common way is to ban, shadowban, or demonetize the offender. And if that doesn't work you can always be held civilly liable.

Contracting with others to commit fraud and violate contracts is not a good business idea even if you stay off the government's radar.


If you're paying money, you still might not be a company's real customer: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093781/distribution-of-...

I don’t think it’s even right to think that there’s one “real” customer and one “fake” one really. It seems like an oversimplified model that doesn’t accurately describe how anybody operates besides a mom-and-pop.

The "unsimple" answer is:

1. if you don't have leverage with your vendors, they will not bend over backwards for you

2. companies are not incentivized to respond to complaints with no revenue at risk (e.g. you're going to use youtube anyway)


> It kind of does make sense, like a Library would use the books at its disposal.

Libraries don't really "use" books to produce anything, except to support accessibility like translations or indexing. Their lending of books is under the first-sale doctrine, which wouldn't be applicable to YouTube videos streamed under license.

> But what is not normal is that they will easily block, ban and sue you if you try to do the same, like if the catalog of content was belonging to them.

Because they do have rights to the content. All of the content on YouTube has been licensed to YouTube, and the licensor has assigned some rights to them.


Most of it is better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQr4Xklqzw8

> installing an app

> these difficulties

Because most people do not find it difficult to install an app. And many people started with the mobile app anyway, and/or use their mobile device as their primary computer.


Curl, by default, tells sites exactly what version of Curl you are using.

Then pass a random user agent string on each request

There's only so much you can fake without breaking sites. You may be able to fake the specific elements that a site is looking at today, but it'll always be a cat and mouse game.

Developers wanted to use those APIs to deliver features. The privacy implications were not considered until the cat was already out of the bag.

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