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RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 08:25 AM Apr 2013

Google Glasses - How will Google enforce this?

How will they know money did not pass under the table? I'm just curious ...

Buyers of Google Glass have been warned they cannot sell their pricey new techno-spectacles on eBay or anywhere else.

In terms of sale posted on its website, the advertising giant said a Google Glass was for life, unless you wanted to give it away for nothing. Anyone who failed to follow the rules will have their devices remotely shut down.

The first Google Glass Explorer editions are rolling off the production lines and into the hands of early adopters who each paid $1,500 for an early version of the headgear. The hardware projects information into the wearer's field of view.

Google stated: "You may not commercially resell any device, but you may give the device as a gift. Recipients of gifts may need to open and maintain a Google Wallet account in order to receive support from Google. These terms will also apply to any gift recipient."


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/18/google_glass_sales/
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Google Glasses - How will Google enforce this? (Original Post) RKP5637 Apr 2013 OP
4 Sale: Glasses case - $1,000.00. Includes free gift of Google Glasses! Scuba Apr 2013 #1
Yeah, that's what I was thinking ... it's kinda weird. The Google Glass Cops are RKP5637 Apr 2013 #2
I thought this just applied to the Developer version of the glasses ChromeFoundry Apr 2013 #3
Thanks! I think you're correct! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2013 #4

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
2. Yeah, that's what I was thinking ... it's kinda weird. The Google Glass Cops are
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 08:56 AM
Apr 2013

watching. One way I was thinking is they do an imprint of the user via the camera and voice ... eyes ... whatever ... and if that changes they know it's in someone else's hands ... I guess, on their head. Man, this increases surveillance x to the nth! Then, they do a remote disable permanently. The legislatures should have a fun time with this one ... if any care about privacy anymore.



ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)
3. I thought this just applied to the Developer version of the glasses
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:11 PM
Apr 2013

I read a slightly different article that mentioned the early adopter developer version of the glasses for people writing apps before the full release of the product. I could be wrong, but this is similar to NDAs that I was required to sign for Beta programs of pre-release software.

I think this would never hold up under first-sale doctrine laws.

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