Canadian smart glasses going 'offline' weeks after company bought by Google

[Athan Immortal]

Just now, paddy-stone said:

Means that's when they start giving the refunds, NOT the cut-off date for refund.

I guess that makes sense, it just seems a weird way to say it, starting sounds like it's in the future. If they'd said "Refunds have started being issued as of 30th of June" that would make sense to me.

[paddy-stone]

3 minutes ago, Athan Immortal said:

I guess that makes sense, it just seems a weird way to say it, starting sounds like it's in the future. If they'd said "Refunds have started being issued as of 30th of June" that would make sense to me.

Yeah, that's English for you... it can be read different ways, which is very helpful, LOL... It's because it's written in future tense "refunds WILL be issued" rather than "refunds HAVE been issued". But I can see how it could be mis-construed.

[Beskamir]

2 hours ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

This is criminal.

Apparently they're giving refunds so I guess it's not that bad?

[YellowJersey]

Google is basically Unicron at this point.

[Drama Lama]

A kinda new entry to the google graveyard 

[Vishera]

3 hours ago, Commodus said:

Again, this is completely illogical.

 

If acquisitions that stopped a company from selling products were illegal, many already-completed acquisitions would be illegal. Companies would always be forced to keep selling an acquired firm's products, maybe even to run them as subsidiaries for all eternity.

 

I don't know why you're still trying to argue this. You're not just a little bit wrong about antitrust law; you're completely, unquestionably wrong about it. Unless you have evidence that Google is dominant in consumer smart glasses and was buying North to silence competition, just accept that this is likely legal and move on.

Funny thing is that now Google are in an antitrust hearing.

[Commodus]

10 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Funny thing is that now Google are in an antitrust hearing.

Yes, but not about North. I've actually been watching the entire time... North hasn't been mentioned once. They've talked about DoubleClick, but that's about the only acquired company that came up.

[jagdtigger]

15 hours ago, BuckGup said:

That's a terrible argument.

If someone doesnt have enough brain cells to know not to buy anything that will stop function if it cant reach some servers.......

[Trik'Stari]

19 hours ago, TetraSky said:

And that's why devices that rely on "The cloud" to work properly, are dead on arrival to me.

You never know when they'll cancel the service.

^My reason for hating Chromebooks

 

That, and they break more easily. Like, their breakage rate is several times higher than Windows based machines.