Showing a product in its best light is one thing. Demonstrating a mode of operation that doesn't exist is entirely another. It would be like if a demo of your swipe keyboard included telepathic mind control for correcting errors.
I would agree completely that it’s not ready for consumers the way it was displayed, which is my point.
I do want to add that I believe that the right way to do these types of new product rollout is not with these giant public announcements.
In fact, I think generally speaking the “right” way to do something like this demonstrates only things that are possible robustly. However that’s not the market that Google lives in. They’re capitalists trying to make as much money as possible. I’m simply evaluating that what they’re showing I think is absolutely technically possible and I think Google can deliver it even if its not ready today.
Do I think it’s supremely ethical the way that they did it? No I don’t.
And it's dangerous to assume they can just "deliver later". It's not that simple. If it is why not bake it in right now instead of committing fraud?
This is damaging to companies that walk the walk and then people have literally said to me "but what about that Gemini"? and dismiss our work.
That was basically what magic leap did to the whole AR development market. Everyone deep in it knew they couldn’t do it but they messed up so badly that it basically killed the entire industry