Source: Phandroid.
As you know by now, Google Glass is a very neat idea but also controversial because of the privacy nature of the device. However, unlike what stuff like Facebook is doing, Google is actually advancing technology and a potentially useful device in society. But this isn't about privacy here now. It's about the technology itself.
See, Glass need a data plan to work. Carriers are more than happy to accommodate user's hunger for data. As long as you pay a separate plan for it. Stupid right? Because they won't just let you tether it off your mobile devices, your Android smartphone.
Until now. Google made a gutsy move by releasing an app that would allow Glass to tether to the smartphones running Android. In the latest Glass update, you can pair Glass to the dedicated app on your device and have it pull information that way.
Neat. It's a tether to an app so carriers cannot object, right?
We'll see. In the future, devices like watches and other wearable gears will essentially work the same way. I'm glad that Google, someone huge that carriers cannot ignore or make go away, is doing this. By going after the carriers now even before they're ready, say making users add an extra $10 or $20 just to tether their weable devices, maybe Google can do enough so that users are trained with the idea that they can just tether outer devices to their phones without paying extra for it.
It'll be interesting to see how this play out. As soon as Apple releases its own wearable devices, even iOS and Mac users will benefit from this move.
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