iPhone users may soon be putting on their Google Goggles

Regarding Facetime, I'm not sure I understand which part of it-just-works "isn't right yet".

As for Google Goggles? Frankly I don't want more Google anything, especially since their proposal to quash Internet openness with their buddy Verizon. Throw in Eric Schmidt's consistent lack of respect on the notion of privacy, which includes the streetcams debacle, and why anyone would support Google by using their gear is beyond me. Android envy? Hardly.

The Bing app has done this for months

On one hand it's silly to say to wait for Apple to do it right because the general consensus already is that this is a cool thing. So I'm looking forward to having it.

On the other hand I thing it was Wygit who felt like there was some sort of relevant reason to call out FaceTime in this thread as an example of Apple being too closed.

@wygit FaceTime needs wifi because Apple hasn't been able to get AT&T up to snuff to support it yet. The tech outpaces the infastructure.

And the reason you can only use this tech with an iPhone 4 user is because nobody else has made a FaceTime phone yet. Apple has stated clearly that the FaceTime format is open for competitors to use. So of all the options you had to choose from to comment on Apples closedness, that might be one of the worst choices.

I'm still hoping to see a native Google Voice app for the iPhone once Apple & AT&T's deal expires.

How about they provide an email address to which all cameraphone users can send shots, and replies are either made via email or SMS? That way it's platform agnostic and will even work on dumbphones. Not as cool as augmented reality, but useful for far more people.

As an iPhone 4 owner, I know my Android envy comes from Google Maps Navigation.

Though I've been having good luck with Mapquest's app, using Mapquest itself kinda gives me an odd feeling.

So instead of having to look at the sign above the restaurant I can look at my phone to see what it is called? Thats progress!

Instead of cramming all this altered reality in ones phone... Why does no one (not publicly anyway) focus to implement this stuff directly into us. That this "overlay" the phone provides is directly in our field of vision if we want. Now that would be cool!

I'm not really sure why we need something as silly as google goggles right now. I'll wait for Apple to do it the right way. Like Facetime. Or what they are doing with the Game Center. Then maybe I'll care. But right now, it's just a stupid broken Android toy app that doesn't do anything really functional.