Developers fail to see profits with Google Glass

Google has been touting Google Glass, its hotly-anticipated high-tech spectacles, as the future of mobile technology. Yet software developers were left wondering how, exactly, they would make money from the invention, after the internet search giant announced that it would not allow them to charge users for their apps.In the newly released terms and conditions covering Glass, Google also said it would not allow in-app advertising on the device’s eye-display.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/developers-fail-to-see-profits-with-google-glass-8575682.htmlAlso see:Google Emulates Apple in Restricting Apps for Glass
The allure of the iPhone was not its brushed metal or shiny touch screen, but the apps that turned it into anything from a flute to a flashlight. Now, Google hopes that apps will do the same thing for Glass, its Internet-connected glasses.On Monday night, Google released extensive guidelines for software developers who want to build apps for Glass. With those guidelines, it is taking a page from Apple’s playbook, by being much more restrictive about the glasses than it has been with other products, particularly its Android operating system for phones, and controlling the type of apps that developers build.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/google-releases-details-about-glass-for-app-developers/