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And by "Glass programme" they mean the Explorers program, not the entirity of Glass itself, which is being moved from Google X to something less R&D-y, in the hands of the Nest CEO.

Probably about time - Glass needs to sink or swim already.

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It's more specific than that: current versions of Google Glass are dead and are planned to be sunset. So, Glass, as we know it, is dead.

This is totally not a surprise regarding the current version of Glass. To paraphrase briefly:

Google Glass = ti OMAP 4430 → Texas Instruments axed the OMAP division → no more (closed source) driver updates → no more easy kernel updates → no more Android/system software updates → end-of-life. ☹

Exactly. This is like the G1 being discontinued. It's a product EOL, not a product line being killed.

If the G1 had been discontinued at 3 days' notice - and without there being a replacement already on the market - I'd have expected people to have some pretty harsh things to say about the future of Android...

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