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Dicey Details Emerge On Google Glass Ownership Clause

Owners are cautioned against selling or renting them, or risk deactivation.

 

If you are thinking about making a quick buck by selling your newly-received Google Glass as soon as you get one, think again. Owners have been urged against selling or renting out the gadget to anyone, failing which the search giant may even deactivate them as per the product's terms of sale. However, it mentions that you are allowed to gift it to anyone, as long as the recipient agrees to open and maintain a Google Wallet account "to be able to receive support from Google". It is not known how the company will determine whether the glasses have been sold or gifted. In case of a breach of the above stipulation, the company may deactivate the device, and will neither refund the device's cost nor honour the product's warranty. This will essentially leave you with a bricked Google Glass, which you'll be able to use only as a pair of funky futuristic eyewear.

There is yet another strange clause, which is not mentioned in the product's terms regarding advertising, but crops up in in the Glass Developers Policies. A company that literally lives off advertisement revenues, it wants to keep the Google Glass untouched. The search giant goes on to prohibit developers from serving ads on the product. That can be a good thing, imagine your augmented reality experience being hampered by a wayward ad abruptly popping into the view.

Technical specifications of the glasses have been published yesterday and it is now known (to the disappointment of many), that it will only support Wi-Fi, rather than 3G, which could have been of practical use as Wi-Fi hotspots are scarcer to find than 3G towers. While the glasses are not going to be available before 2014, they have already been making a lot of noise, will all the hype that has been successfully created around the product.


Dicey Details Emerge On Google Glass Ownership Clause


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