It depends on what you mean by small. Many apps will still be able to run for free on GAE. But yeah, as soon as an app goes beyond the free quotas then the pricing may be way too high.
And companies developing larger applications may not want to use GAE because of the limited datastore functionality. So I'm not sure exactly what kind of customers Google is targeting with GAE. To speculate a bit: Yikes, maybe Google now has too few large customers and that they now on purpose have chosen to kill GAE, because they see that they will never have enough large customers whatever they do and whatever price model they use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/QAsV9dqJpeoJ. 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.