Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear

#41

Post by gokhan » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 6:09 AM UTC

> Welcome to the New World, one in which companies are retaining control of their products even after consumers purchase them.

A joke, right? After Amazon's removal of books remotely from Kindles and all those iSomething from Apple, Glass is far from being the first one.

Re: Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear

#42

Post by nekojima » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 6:09 AM UTC

I'd feel much better if they explicitly forbid users from wearing this eyewear around children, in public toilets, beaches, swimming pools, shop changing rooms, or anywhere else its use could be utilized to fulfill a perversion (this assumes they have the camera). So basically, probably means they can just wear them at home.

Re: Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear

#43

Post by Shinkei » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 6:17 AM UTC

The issue I see here is that people were asked to submit entries to this contest because Google was trying to get product testing information from people who would actually use it... and in interesting ways. This guy is being disingenuous (and a douchebag IMHO) if he tries to sell it on ebay before he even has it in hand. He gives ethical consumers a bad name and should be taken out of the closed beta test. This is just like all the people/companies who mass purchase concert tickets the millisecond they come out and resell them at 1000% face value because of "free market" blah blah, but actually they created the artificial demand and increased the price by speculation.

Re: Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear

#44

Post by addandsubtract » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 8:40 AM UTC

gokhan wrote: post #41

> Welcome to the New World, one in which companies are retaining control of their products even after consumers purchase them. A joke, right? After Amazon's removal of books remotely from Kindles and all those iSomething from Apple, Glass is far from being the first one.

Just because the New World is already a year old, doesn't mean we can't welcome new people to it.

Re: Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear

#45

Post by ok_craig » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 6:01 PM UTC

GHFigs wrote: post #21

ok_craig wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> May not commercially resell Sounds like you can still give / gift / sell / otherwise transfer a glass unit to another individual privately. This all sounds completely normal.

The addendum for the Explorer Edition states: you may not resell, loan, transfer, or give your Device to any other person . That's what the story is about, because there are no other editions of Glass.

I don't understand this reply. I was replying to the comment, not the story directly. The comment is referring to future editions.

Re: Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear

#46

Post by greenyoda » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 2:48 AM UTC

pi18n wrote: post #31

crgt wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So why wouldn't publishers just make people sign a similar agreement if it's that simple?

Would you sign a contract to get a book?

Even if I did sign a contract to get a book, it would be very hard to enforce conditions like not lending or selling it to somebody (unless it was an e-book with unbreakable DRM).