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Google is forbidding users from reselling or loaning Glass eyewear
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04-18-2013, 03:28 PM | #2 |
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This is pretty disgusting if you ask me. It saddens me to see Google stray further and further from "Don't be evil."
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04-18-2013, 04:23 PM | #3 |
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I would think it would be hard enough selling the Google Glass at $1,500 as it is. To tell me that I can't sell or loan it, it wouldn't be worthwhile at 1/10 the price.
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04-18-2013, 04:27 PM | #4 |
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It sounds bad, but if you read the part of the article that was snipped out you can see why they are doing this. This is a limited trial for a high demand product. Some guy was trying to sell his pair on eBay and bids were up to $90,000.
So, not so evil after all. If they keep the policy in place after they become available to the general public, then that's another story. But I highly doubt that will happen. |
04-18-2013, 04:41 PM | #5 |
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I find this very confusing, Google can't "forbid" you from selling them even if they wanted to. Something doesn't add up here.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's none of their business what I do with a product I've bought. Except they're making it their business, so there's not much I can do about it except make angry forum threads and not buy a pair. Quote:
Anyway, I'd suggest clicking through and reading the article in its entirety. They do a better job explaining it than I do. Last edited by K. Molen; 04-18-2013 at 04:52 PM. |
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04-18-2013, 05:54 PM | #7 |
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The definition of owning something is changing.
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04-18-2013, 06:53 PM | #8 |
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I'll wait to overreact till Google Glass is out of beta. To me, this is nothing more than people whining about NDAs.
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04-18-2013, 07:14 PM | #9 |
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They can't forbid you, and they aren't forbidding you. They are saying that if you stray from the rules they've set, they reserve the right to turn your Glass into a brick.
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Until someone jailbreaks them, I suppose, and figures out how to run them with a different OS and a different cloud storage setup. |
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04-18-2013, 09:21 PM | #11 |
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We're being turned into serfs. We don't own anything anymore, everything is owned by the lord of the manor
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04-18-2013, 09:29 PM | #12 |
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04-18-2013, 10:29 PM | #13 |
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this. its a closed controlled beta/developer program. everyone should have know that going in. in fact they were sent the particulars before the glasses shipped. they did not have to be a part of the program or pay for them if they did not want to abide by the agreement.
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04-19-2013, 09:44 AM | #14 |
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It sounds like it's the same model for the walled-garden ebook readers: you buy the device, but only license the content.
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04-19-2013, 09:52 AM | #15 |
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Same with unwalled readers. You always only license the content. Only the copyright owner "owns" the content. Same with a paperback, for that matter. You own the wood pulp, not the content.
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