All this "we aren't a non-profit" and "oh poor us we have to make some money" and "its better than if we turn it off", just deliberately misses the point: It w

All this "we aren't a non-profit" and "oh poor us we have to make some money" and "its better than if we turn it off", just deliberately misses the point: It was news to us that they are losing so much money. It was news because they spent the last three years telling us to jump through insane hoops, locking ourselves thoroughly into a for-profit company, on the sole belief that doing so would allow efficiencies and scale not to be found elsewhere. The complaint is not "you shouldn't make money off us". The complaint is what the fuck was all that bullshit we've been doing for three fucking years if it didn't make any fucking difference - as demonstrated by your "viable billing prices"? And what does it say about their competence? After three years, they only discovered in May that they were measuring the wrong thing? Google? The analysis company. Only in May someone decided to look at how all the "brilliant GAE Way" actually impacted performance and resources? Nobody thought, "this cpu billing is all very well, but we are actually running 20 bazillion machines to serve 5 web pages per second - maybe our model might be wrong". For the tiny guys, the free plan is viable. Perhaps for the giant guys, (I don't know) the plan is viable. For everyone in the middle, it is better to go to EC2. The only people who say they are staying are those who do not have the competence to move to EC2 or Heroku, i.e. non engineers every one of them. So GAE used to be all "Hey, engineers, come code to our awesome paradigm shifting api, and you can be efficient and scale." Now GAE is, "Hey, MBAs and Muggles, have your monkeys write generic java/python and we'll make it scale no matter what the cost (to you)!"