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Faryn Balyncd

(5,125 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:15 AM Apr 2013

Google forbids users from reselling, loaning Glass eyewear...





(Wired) -- Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget.

The company's terms of service on the limited-edition wearable computer specifically states, "you may not resell, loan, transfer, or give your device to any other person. If you resell, loan, transfer, or give your device to any other person without Google's authorization, Google reserves the right to deactivate the device, and neither you nor the unauthorized person using the device will be entitled to any refund, product support, or product warranty."

Welcome to the New World, one in which companies are retaining control of their products even after consumers purchase them.....It was bound to happen. Strange as it may sound, you don't actually own much of the software you buy today. You essentially rent it under strict end-user agreements that have withstood judicial scrutiny. Google appears to be among the first to apply such draconian rules to consumer electronics....

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/tech/innovation/google-glass-resales/index.html?hpt=hp_t5





Google can go to hell.





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Google forbids users from reselling, loaning Glass eyewear... (Original Post) Faryn Balyncd Apr 2013 OP
Good luck with that. n/t winter is coming Apr 2013 #1
If I can't share it with my family, I don't want it. n/t cynatnite Apr 2013 #2
And if that was not shitty enough : Faryn Balyncd Apr 2013 #3
A sign that the product sucks. Quantess Apr 2013 #4
A sign the product is in beta, which it is (nt) Recursion Apr 2013 #7
nah, capital has had this 'you don't own, you only rent' planned for years. you're going to be HiPointDem Apr 2013 #8
I'll never buy anything defacto7 Apr 2013 #5
Relax, guys, you always keep betas secret and limited to the testers Recursion Apr 2013 #6
Ahem! I own almost all the software I use. longship Apr 2013 #9
Buy a Mazak machine tool Mopar151 Apr 2013 #10

Faryn Balyncd

(5,125 posts)
3. And if that was not shitty enough :
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:20 AM
Apr 2013




...Google has created the Silicon Valley equivalent of a velvet rope under its so-called Google Glass Explorers program. If Google liked what you posted on social media under the hashtag #ifihadglassand, Google grants you the opportunity to fork out $1,500 for the Explorer edition of the headset.

Google declined comment....





 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
8. nah, capital has had this 'you don't own, you only rent' planned for years. you're going to be
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:28 AM
Apr 2013

seeing it more & more. it's not just google.

i read something laying out the business model maybe a decade ago.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
6. Relax, guys, you always keep betas secret and limited to the testers
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:24 AM
Apr 2013

The goggles are in beta and you always limit beta products to the original testers. Google is just in the unusual position of having people willing to pay to beta test their stuff rather than the other way around.

There's no sign they'll do this for the publicly available model.

longship

(40,416 posts)
9. Ahem! I own almost all the software I use.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:42 AM
Apr 2013

I have a high end quad core laptop and a twin core 64 bit desktop. I also have an Apple iPhone 4s.

With the exception of my iPhone, all the software on both my other computers are mine to do whatever I want. How do I know that? Because all the software on my computers is running under the Linux kernel. It is all licensed under the GNU license (GNU == GNU's Not Unix -- a recursive definition).

So I can do whatever the fuck I want with my computers and nobody can take that away.

All software should be free. It's not a product.

I have been running Linux exclusively for fifteen years when I gave up Windows NT. my only concession is when I bought an iPhone.

I started with Slackware Linux. I now use Ubuntu on my laptop and Gentoo on my desktop. In between I have used many other distributions. All are Linux. All are free, both financially and intellectually.

Literally, the best of both worlds.

Screw Micro$oft!

Mopar151

(9,965 posts)
10. Buy a Mazak machine tool
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:52 AM
Apr 2013

And you'll find out that what you "own" is the hardware, barely. The independent software source (Griffo Bros.) is worse.

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