LOS ANGELES—MiKandi actually did release an app for Google Glass on Monday, called enticingly Tits & Glass. According to a MiKandi blog post, it quickly attracted 10,000 visitors to a site created for the new app, and a dozen Glass owners signed up to use the app.
“Not surprisingly,” wrote MiKandi CEO Jesse Andrews, “we’ve reached our API limits. Our previously approved request to up our limit was later denied today, so unfortunately, there’ll be no more updates to Tits & Glass until tomorrow.”
Those plans had to be quickly changed, however, when Google, in what had to be a reaction to the new app and the significant media interest in it, changed its content policy for Glass developers to prohibit anything of a sexually explicit nature, including mere nudity.
Section D (1) now reads:
Sexually Explicit Material: We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography. If we become aware of content with child pornography, we will report it to the appropriate authorities and delete the Google Accounts of those involved with the distribution.
Reacting immediately, Andrews updated the MiKandi blog to announce the change in policy, writing, “When we received our Glass and started developing our app 2 weeks ago, we went through the policy very carefully to make sure we were developing the app within the terms. We double checked again last week when making the site live on the Internet and available for install for testing during last week’s announcement. We were not notified of any changes and still haven’t been notified by Google. We also double checked our emails to see if any notifications of policy changes were announced, but we haven’t found any such emails.
“Although the app is still live and people are using it,” he continued, “at this point we must make changes to the app in order to comply with the new policies. Expect to see changes to the application tomorrow.”
Lingerie & Glass?
