Re:Was Steve Yegge Right?
by libria on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:50PM
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Prediction #8: Someday I will voluntarily pay Google for one of their services.
Pretty close; there have been recent signs of this. Appengine is switching to a stricter payment plan. Google Apps for domain reduced their free user limit to 10. A lot of free API's are shutting down and some new ones require billing (Prediction, Storage, Search).
Although, in his particular case, it's Google paying him for his services...
Re:Was Steve Yegge Right?
by gcp on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @04:47AM
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Some things like the online photo albums have pretty low limits (1G storage). If I end up paying it will probably be for that. Despite having my own web-server, the link-in to my Android phone is huge convenience factor.
Pretty close; there have been recent signs of this. Appengine is switching to a stricter payment plan. Google Apps for domain reduced their free user limit to 10. A lot of free API's are shutting down and some new ones require billing (Prediction, Storage, Search).
Although, in his particular case, it's Google paying him for his services...