Steve Wozniak says he loves wearing Google Glass and it’s a “great product,” but he also told an Australian newspaper recently that it’ll likely join many other great products that don’t succeed.

Woz, the co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, told the Australian Financial Review that he considers Glass to be an “admirable failure” and says the lack of a killer app is holding it back from wider acceptance. Still, he doesn’t want Google to throw in the towel.

“I feel like the coolest person in the world when I am wearing it. When I see people wearing it, I also think they are cool because they are brave enough to play with the future with a device that makes no sense in terms of what it does for what it costs,” Wozniak says. “In my mind, it is a great product that will not succeed, just like many other great products that didn’t succeed. Maybe if they found one great commercial application, but I don’t think that has happened yet. I hope that they don’t give it up though, and I have heard that they aren’t planning to give up yet.”

In late 2013, Woz said he thought Glass has a chance — but he wasn’t part of the Explorer program then and was making those comments after wearing it a few times when around other Explorers. It seems safe to assume from his comments above that Woz is now an Explorer, or has at least been able to wear and use Glass long enough to have the somewhat conflicted opinions that he expressed above.

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