Hi Rossko. Thanks for the advice. Here is what I know: I was working on a project that requires Google Maps. Due to its characteristics, I estimated the following:
- I would have 5 loads per user in average (possible more considering that I can't save static images on my server, not even thumbnails). - Since the limit is 25000 loads, my project is limited to 5000 visits per day. - Concentrating the business on advertisement I can make between $10 and $15 per day (based on previous experience and websites that are already running since several years ago) Once reaching this level of traffic, the next step for any business is investing. The money earned has to be invested in advertisement to make the business grow and turn the 5000 visits into millions a day. But here is the problem. As soon as I get the numbers over the limit I will start loosing money (or if I'm lucky I'll get even). I'll have to stop investing in advertisement and my business, for one reason or another, will be dead in 5000 visits (no money for me, no money for Google). And with that level of income, it's impossible to pay for a premium account (and according to the values I saw a premium account is too expensive as well, comparing with any cloud service). Conclusions: With the current business plan there is a gap. You can't start a project that might turn into a big business because you have to be a big business since the beginning to be able to afford the services you need. It's IMPOSSIBLE to scale. Once you reach a point in which you have to start paying your business is frozen because you can't pay for the service without loosing money. And if you don't pay, Google don't make ANY money. Google knows the numbers. They have a cloud service and they know the low cost of the bandwidth and storage. A static image, for example, is no more than 50k, thus 1000 images will be 50 megabytes. The cost of bandwidth for 1 gig is $0.13 (maximum), so for 1000 images we are talking about $0.0065 (it's not even a cent). You can't turn this into $4 without killing thousands of projects that could become big business and bring millions of dollars to Google. I think I don't need to explain more, Google has ALL the numbers they need to understand this. Thanks for reading JD On Nov 7, 8:40 am, Rossko <ros...@culzean.clara.co.uk> wrote: > > Hope you can come up with something realistic... > > Clearly Google think they already have, and it is already in place. > > One way to encourage re-think is to provide a concrete alternative. > We don't have access to the numbers (users, hits, etc.) to see how a > suggestion pans out, but if a suggestion is made it should be easy > enough for Google to do sums. > It might be most effective to present such a suggestion with an > estimate of the results, compared to the status quo. > > Most likely the wrong Google folk are reading this forum, but if the > message is more persuasive than "poor me" and more like "benefits to > Google", I'm sure it would get passed upwards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
