purely speculation but I'd be willing to bet... - App Engine was close to going the way of Wave, the free translate API and Labs. - someone/some group pushed back hard for one last chance to make it profitable with the new pricing model - 2011 4th quarter is the make|break time for app engine. If it doesn't become profitable right away with the new pricing then the 3 year clock will start ticking, probably no later than the 2nd quarter of 2012 I think it's unfair to cast the GAE team as being party to any kind of bait and switch strategy. From the outside looking in it appears the culture is changing from being engineering/ideas driven to being business/profit driven and GAE is just trying to survive the transition. As a very early GAE adopter, promoter and someone who built a thriving business on Google API's I hope they get lucky and make it.
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