India, April 23 -- Opening thoughts. Snap Inc.'s smart glasses are coming. It is a more a question of when and not if. CEO Evan Spiegel recently said something many of us are thinking.

"I think Meta needed to partner with (Essilor) Luxottica because the Meta brand, I think, is not something people want anywhere near their face," Spiegel said during a podcast with David Senra. Clearly, Meta's reputation precedes anything it does-including the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. In fact, Spiegel went on to say that "It's much more harmful for Luxottica than it is for Meta," referring to this partnership.

In fact, a few weeks ago, I had noted my discomfort of living a life wearing AI glasses by Meta. ".to be fair, no one really knows where this data ...