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(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.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)...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 $1,500 for the Explorer edition of the headset.
Google declined comment....
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Fine print rules like that show a lack of confidence in the product, IMO.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)seeing it more & more. it's not just google.
i read something laying out the business model maybe a decade ago.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)under those terms. Period.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)The goggles are in beta and you always limit beta products to the original testers. Google is just in the unusual position of having people willing to pay to beta test their stuff rather than the other way around.
There's no sign they'll do this for the publicly available model.
longship
(40,416 posts)I have a high end quad core laptop and a twin core 64 bit desktop. I also have an Apple iPhone 4s.
With the exception of my iPhone, all the software on both my other computers are mine to do whatever I want. How do I know that? Because all the software on my computers is running under the Linux kernel. It is all licensed under the GNU license (GNU == GNU's Not Unix -- a recursive definition).
So I can do whatever the fuck I want with my computers and nobody can take that away.
All software should be free. It's not a product.
I have been running Linux exclusively for fifteen years when I gave up Windows NT. my only concession is when I bought an iPhone.
I started with Slackware Linux. I now use Ubuntu on my laptop and Gentoo on my desktop. In between I have used many other distributions. All are Linux. All are free, both financially and intellectually.
Literally, the best of both worlds.
Screw Micro$oft!
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)And you'll find out that what you "own" is the hardware, barely. The independent software source (Griffo Bros.) is worse.