14 DAY TRIAL // Google has opened up sales for Glass in the United States once more and the prices still haven’t dropped.
The Internet giant has decided to test out the waters once again and see just how much interest there is in Google Glass with a new round of open sales.
The company made the announcement last night on Google+. “Last week we told you we'd be trying out new ways to find Explorers. Well, we weren’t kidding. We learned a lot when we opened our site a few weeks ago, so we’ve decided to move to a more open beta,” Google writes.
The Explorer Program will continue for a while, as the company still improves the Glass hardware and software. Therefore, as long as Google has the device on stock and you live in the United States, you can purchase it for $1,500.
The fact that Google is allowing people to get their hands on the headgear is great, but the fact that the Glass continues to cost an arm and a leg isn’t that nice. In fact, everyone keeps expecting Google to lower the prices, but if this will eventually happen, it will be when Glass is out of beta, sometime later this year.
Some were even hoping to see a $200 price tag attached to Google Glass, but a more realistic price is $500, which is still a third of what Google is getting right now. Even so, it begs the questions – when will Google finally release the final Glass version to the world and how much is it going to cost?
The company’s execs have hinted that the release would happen sometime this year, but that happened in 2013. This year, so far, there’s been no discussion on the topic and execs have refrained from giving out any type of information about the company’s plans. There’s a chance that more could be revealed during the annual Google conference.
The company has also managed to take something away from people who are already members of the Explorer program. While most of them are developers, there are also other users who have bought a bit of exclusivity for the $1,500 they shelled out on the device.
Now that Google has dropped the invitation requirement, things are changing. It does indicate, however, that the company is becoming more comfortable with sharing Glass with the world.