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Google will brick Google Glasses if owners resell or loan them out
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57580159-93/google-will-brick-google-glasses-if-owners-resell-or-loan-them-out/If all you envisioned developing by being an early recipient of Google Glass Explorer Edition was a quick resale profit, think again: Google has rules against reselling the wearable tech without its permission.
As the Web giant began shipping the high-tech specs this week, it also unveiled a host of developer preview documentation, specs, and rules about what developers could and couldn't do. One of those things, apparently, is reselling or even loaning the $1,500 device to someone else. Developers who do risk having their prized specs deactivated.
As spotted by Wired, Google's terms of service regarding ownership and use are fairly specific:
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.
That's not the only limitation placed on the new eyewear. Google, which generates 95 percent of its revenue through advertising, doesn't want developers placing ads on the hotly anticipated eyewear. The terms state that "Glassware" developers may not "serve or include any advertisements" and they "may not charge" users to download apps for the device.
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Google will brick Google Glasses if owners resell or loan them out (Original Post)
steve2470
Apr 2013
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discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)1. My prescription specs...
...are $60 from my favorite optometrist. Google can kiss my ass.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)2. Good, that reduces my chances of being in a conversation with someone wearing these
Go for it, Google!
Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)3. yeh and these are only one of a few similar devices being developed..
..so they'll have competition to boot. i think they're hoping to be the iphone of iglasses. haha.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)4. This decade's Segway. nt
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)5. I'm not so sure
It seems like a natural evolution, at least for the people who evidently have a smart phone surgically attached to them.
And of course we won't get the fun of seeing Dubya take a pratfall with them.