The tech industry has spent roughly a gazillion dollars trying to convince people to strap face computers on their heads. It hasn’t worked.
But the tech guys haven’t given up. Their new pitch: Instead of buying bulky goggles that replace your reality with a computer-generated version of something else, what about some glasses?
At first glance, this makes a bunch of sense: People don’t wear big heavy stuff on their head unless they have to — like if they’re skiing, perhaps. But lots of people wear glasses. So if the tech guys want to sell new tech, they should stop trying to make things people don’t wear and focus on the things people already wear.
This, the headline, bothers me so much. It is intentionally wrong (“can’t” means it is not possible or capable, which is false and incredibly easily verified). “aren’t selling enough” is what they actually wanted to say, but then every single company ever created can say ‘we aren’t selling enough (because we want all the money in the universe)’ and that as a headline is boring as fuck. So they lie with “can’t”, and this shit pisses me the fuck off.
This shit - whether it is a post title on lemmy, or the article title itself - is not journalism, it’s just lying to coax in readers and then explaining away the lie, like ‘oh no you don’t understand, we didn’t mean it like that’. Explain the shit truthfully and clearly, front and center, or get the fuck off the stage.