LIVE: Google Glass API Not So Open? Privacy vs. Revenue
Google has officially announced the tech specs of the infamous Google Glass, and developers aren’t exactly given a lot to work with. Let’s start with the good news for developers wanting a crack at Google Glass: not only do they now have the tech specs, but the API for the device is already available to help developers prepare for Google Glass once it hit stores. The API involves a Quick Start guide to help programmers and developers get started.
Now for the restrictions. As Melissa Tolentino covered on DevOpsANGLE today, developers aren’t allowed to distribute their apps anywhere else except for “the official Google-hosted Google Mirror API Client distribution channel, unless otherwise approved in writing by Google.” Aside from this, developers may not “serve or include any advertisements in your API Client,” “use user data from your API Client for advertising purposes,” “sell or transmit any user data received from your API Client(s) to a third-party ad network or service, data broker, or other advertising or marketing provider,” “be used for Third-Party Ad Serving (“3PAS”).”
On this morning’s live NewsDesk Show with Kristin Feledy we’ll hear from John Casaretto and we’ll get the lowdown on what all of these developer restrictions mean. Google Glass is still something I’d love to get my hands on as a developer, but we’ll dive deeper into these restriction guidelines. How will developers make money? Does this signal a new era for Google’s open source platform? Is this good for consumer privacy or bad for app makers or neither or both? See the full segment below.
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