After Google’s big Glass transition announcement on Thursday, there has understandably been a lot of uncertainty among the Explorers about being left behind. Many users are wondering about hardware support and server availability, concerned that their $1500 devices may be left high and dry.

There’s a group of people who have invested a great deal more into Glass, however: those who have built it into their business plans. Not surprisingly, developers and entrepreneurs in the Glass ecosystem have concerns that scale with their investments. What’s a Glassware dev to do in this new, post-Explorer world?

According to Google, keep working. In a Google+ response to a concerned developer, official Glass Guide Becca Samson explains,

It’s never a wasted effort to experiment and innovate with a new form factor. There’s so much to learn with a new paradigm for computing such as Glass and the best way to learn is to build something and test.

Email replies sent by the Glassware approval team echo this sentiment, also clarifying that the official Glassware directory isn’t going anywhere soon. One such email reads,

You can still build Glassware, submit it for review, and after a successful review, release it on MyGlass.

Clearly, Google wants developers to continue work on their Glassware, with an understanding that it will still be made available to users for the foreseeable future.

However, lest anyone get too comfortable, don’t lose sight of the fact that a fundamental shift is indeed underway. In a related post on the (members-only) Glass Community, Samson adds,

As for the future versions of Glass, we’re still building platform components and polishing the overall user experience. It’s safe to say you’ll need to make some changes for future versions of Glass.

The bottom line for developers seems to be this: business as usual for now, with big changes ahead.

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