The company today released a set of branding guidelines for its developers to clarify how they can use the Glass™ icon and brand name in their products.
"These include not using the word "free" at all when games contain in-app purchases, developing targeted guidelines for its app developers to prevent direct exhortation to children as defined under EU law and time-framed measures to help monitor apparent breaches of EU consumer laws.
The Commission said: "These include not using the word "free" at all when games contain in-app purchases, developing targeted guidelines for its app developers to prevent direct exhortation to children as defined under EU law, and time-framed measures to help monitor apparent breaches of EU consumer laws.
Earlier today, Google announced that it is about to ship its first Google Glass units and just in time for them to arrive, Google has now also posted the developer guidelines for its Glass Mirror API.
Google today rolled out a refreshed look-and-feel for its Developer Program Policy Center, aimed at making its guidelines for app developers easier to locate, read through and understand.
In March, Apple began alerting developers that they would have to remove Rollout.io's code because it was not in compliance with its guidelines for developers.
Its guidelines for developers are ambiguous, but exclude apps that "appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product".
Microsoft is trying to clean up the Windows Phone Marketplace and as part of this effort, the company just clarified some of its guidelines for developers who want to sell their apps in Microsoft's app store.
The FTC also took the opportunity to introduce a new set of guidelines for mobile developers, in which it provides helpful info about how other mobile apps can avoid running afoul of consumer privacy in the same way as Path in the future.
It was evident during the study that more work needs to be done to develop high quality knowledge bases that provide content for decision support, and that usability is a crucial issue that warrants evaluation and development of guidelines for software developers.
