[dualogy]

That's all fine and dandy until Apple's iGoggles come along, generously allowing you to deploy commercial apps (perhaps for an initial "outrageous" profit-sharing of 50/50?) and bam, these iGoggles within a few months offer zillions of uses to the consumer at a similar price-point as Google's say "only" 100s of uses.

Right now, from the current state of our knowledge, Glass initially seems to cost upwards of a good laptop, with a severely limited-in-capabilities developer API and no way to charge for potentially highly valuable apps.

If the above parameters don't change, Glass may well be the first in this new market but maybe not the one to blow up a completely new mass consumer gadget market from scratch, like the iPhone did..

[GhotiFish]

Yah but actually choosing to USE apples iGoggles instead of a platform where you're not constantly baited and taunted by disingenuous assholes trying to exploit you for a buck, is frankly, insane.

This was the best move Google could of possibly made, I assumed Google glass was just gonna be another orgy of bait and switches like everything else right now in smartphones and tablets and the hilariously useless walled gardens people find themselves in. This actually has a chance of being a useful tool now. A useful tool!

Take money out and the only thing left is pragmatism.

I am very happy.

[roc]

You dislike walled gardens, but you're very happy with Google's API?

[GhotiFish]

I like walled gardens when they keep the moles out, not so much when they pen me in with the moles.

[EthanHeilman]

They should add this as an option for the Google Play store, Free-NotFreeium.

[derekp7]

The F-Droid app is about as close as your probably going to get to this. Everything in there is Free (as in OSI / RMS free), no ads, etc.

[chimeracoder]

> Everything in there is Free (as in OSI / RMS free), no ads, etc.

I should point out that you're conflating free (as in freedom) with free-as-in-beer (ie, gratis).

Free (as in freedom) software absolutely may have ads, or charge for the software.

F-Droid may be 'all of the above' (free as in freedom, no ads, no charge), but that's not necessarily implied by "Free (as in OSI/RMS free).

[derekp7]

Yes, you are correct. However if an app had ads and was also Free (libre), it could be recompiled and redistributed without ads too. What I meant to convey was that these apps are all GPL, MIT, BSD, etc licensed, and also wanted to convey that they respect you (by not spying on you, or burning your battery/bandwidth serving ads, etc), and are otherwise most likely RMS approved :-). I should have been more clear that they are both types of free.

[workbench]

> baited and taunted by disingenuous assholes trying to exploit you for a buck

Sorry are you talking about Google or Apple here?

[pekk]

Neither, he was talking about app stores and ads