On Jul 7, 8:14 am, Drew Spencer <slugmand...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:45:23 UTC+1, zdravko wrote: > > > >> Because you can't just put me out of business... that's not how business > > works. > > > GOOG can certainly put you out of existence by suddenly pricing their > > services out of your affordability range. > > But if they want to charge me extortionate rates, they have to do it to the > whole appengine customer base. > > > >> You can't just steal a customer base that easily. > > > Without you in business, your customer base will go to whoever is > > providing the same service. > > But I would just move my service to another host, keeping my customer base. > > > >> And no, I don't really see any similarity to Microsoft. Comparing apples > > with oranges. > > > Nevertheless, both apples and oranges are our dependencies on their > > monopolies and self serving control. > > I think you're being unfair. Google has never tried to exercise its > near-monopoly on the market like Microsoft did and still does. Google is > where it is because it's products are the best. It destroyed hotmail and > yahoo mail with gmail by just making a better alternative and you can still > get to hotmail through google search, can't you? Why would you though - it's > crap.
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