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If they had just announced they would be charging for it people would also be upset. By announcing they're shutting it down, then backpedaling a little by offer

• yhlasx 15y ago
  More to that, now they are the good guys who read all the comments, cared about their users, listened to their opinions and are changing their decisions based on those comments. Agreed, Ingenious.
• codexon 15y ago
  Maybe they didn't think anyone would pay for it.
• sorbus 15y ago
  It's also a very good way to figure out how many people would actually be willing to pay for it. Not the best way, obviously, due to the number of irritated developers, but it might provide more accurate results than a survey, and certainly gets people to speak up.
• jnhnum1 15y ago
  did you even consider that this was genuine?
• DanielRibeiro 15y ago
  I was actually expecting the whole "shutting down" announcement to be a Lean Startup-esque experiment. If it is, I am really glad, because I'd rather that companies (startups or not) focus on things that people really want. I can't help but imagine all the good Google could have done if it had done this go Wave (either by pivoting it into a better product, or by leaping the whole team into greener fields sooner).