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Official apology for retiring a free API?

• jsnathan 10y ago
  Seems to me that when you intentionally lead people to believe that they can depend on you for something in a way that they wouldn't otherwise have, you create an obligation for yourself to keep that promise. Should be that way, anyway.
• sametmax 10y ago
  In the case of Google, it's been building product during the last 10 years by doing the following: - offering a free product; - letting people build stuff with it; - create some sort of business model and profit. Google relies on the community to live. e.g: there would be no android without dev creating app for it, so they provide a system API letting you create something on it. Without that, Android would be an empty shell. It's a win-win situation, but to work it needs respect from both sides. Here, I don't see any kind of respect from Google, just another beta product trashed. They have the right to do it, but as a developer, I have the right to not want my time wasted. Hence, if Google wants its community to thrives, it needs to be nice with the people being part of it.