"GQL is a query language that is used with the Google App Engine datastore." "Our Users API allows you to authenticate users with Google Accounts" from some o

"GQL is a query language that is used with the Google App Engine datastore." "Our Users API allows you to authenticate users with Google Accounts" from some of the quotes earlier, "you cannot write to the filesystem - due to distributed nature of the system, you have no idea where the file will end up." "you cannot open sockets! you can only use the limited API that they provide (URL & mail sending API). Forget about Twisted :(" "no threads (Google says they provide scalability in other ways)" To me looks very specifically that applications built on this framework can not be transferred without a major to full rewrite, thats very much lock in, it doesnt make it easier for google to buy startups, it makes them easier to no longer need to buy them. your users become their users. your applications become part of the google infrastructure. This looks like the most dangerous and hopfully damaging thing google have done so far