My app gets about 70x price increase, but I'm not going to go anywhere else. Even with such a price increase, GAE is better than the alternatives. Sure that money would buy me quite a few dedicated servers. But it does not buy me a team of people who will fix issues at 4AM in the morning.
On Sep 1, 9:55 am, Kenneth <kennet...@aladdinschools.com> wrote: > What has always been the biggest concern about app engine? Lock-in. You're > at the mercy of Google. Sure there's typhoon ae etc... but really those are > not alternatives. > > What does Google go ahead and do? They do exactly what their critics said > they would do and what us GAE adopters hoped like hell they would never do, > screw us over. > > App Engine is finished not because we're all going to move off to EC2, but > because people who are considering using app engine will see exactly what > has gone on here with the pricing, think about the lock-in argument against > GAE, and decide not to use GAE. There will be a drop off in new apps, and > eventually Google is going to see GAE isn't really panning out and pull the > 3 year plug. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model, I'm at stage 4. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
