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To be fair, the point of preview models and stable releases is so you know what is stable to build on.

• Aeolun 1y ago
  The moment you start charging for preview stuff I think you give a tacit agreement that you can expect the price to not increase by a factor of 4.
  • woleium 1y ago
    that’s a somewhat naïve viewpoint.
    • Aeolun 1y ago
      I think the fact that everyone is like ‘wtf’ now kind of reinforces my viewpoint? Doesn’t mean you can’t do it, but people won’t be happy.
      • woleium 1y ago
        Who cares about happy (in the short term), as long as they continue to pay.
• jjani 1y ago
  Gmail was in beta for what, 2 decades? Did you never use it during that time? They've been using these "Preview" models on their non-technical user facing Gemini app and product for months now. Like, Google themselves has been using them in production, on their main apps. And gemini-1.5-pro is 2 months from depreciation and there was no production alternative. They told everyone to build their stuff on top of it, and then jacked up the price by 4x. Just pointing to some fine print doesn't change that.
• vardump 1y ago
  I'd be more worried about Google just discontinuing another product. For example Stadia was similarly high profile, but it's gone now. More examples here: https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/