3 years 'preview' is rare and unreasonable in my opinion. If you are not certain about the usage patterns and price model etc, you can do a closed beta with selected customers. 3 years of experiment with this public massive scale on real commercial products and serious paying customers, I've never heard of, let alone a price increase with this magnitude in the end.
Best, Will On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Wesley C (Google) <wesc+...@google.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Angke Chen <ang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If all you said is true, then why the billing in the preview was so >> cheap for 3 years? >> >> BAIT AND SWITCH I call. > > > it usually takes awhile for a product to bake before realizing that it is > indeed viable to the market. we couldn't make it *completely* free, so a > pay-as-you-go method worked well for Google and App Engine users alike. we > also wanted to continue to attract users to platform. as i already mentioned > in my previous message: "it was/is also in it's beta or preview period... a > time for users to "try before you buy." > 3 years isn't unreasonable for a preview period, and since we launched, > we've kept on making improvements and adding new features to the platform -- > new releases about every 6-10 weeks! yes, there have been a few small bumps > along the way, but this is the way of the cloud. we're continuing to make > the platform better for users, and hopefully some of you will see that it's > still a worthwhile endeavor! > best regards, > -- wesley > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 > "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 > http://corepython.com > > wesley.chun : wesc+api at google.com : @wescpy > developer relations :: google cloud products > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
