Apple's smart glasses are running late because they don't want to stir a privacy storm

“Removing video capture would make the glasses less controversial, but also less appealing.”

Apple slipped the glasses to June 2027 and is debating whether to ship a camera at all. That is the whole product problem in one sentence. Meta already ate the backlash for putting cameras on people’s faces, so Apple gets to arrive late and call caution a feature. The delay is not ethics. It is waiting to see what the public will tolerate.