Anyone remember how Google toyed with the pricing on its Maps API? In October 2011, Google upped its Maps API pricing to $4+ for 1,000 map loads [1]. Developer

Anyone remember how Google toyed with the pricing on its Maps API? In October 2011, Google upped its Maps API pricing to $4+ for 1,000 map loads [1]. Developers rebelled and switched over to OpenStreet Map [2]. Eight months later, Google dropped the price to $0.50 for 1,000 map loads [3]. [1] http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-of-usage-limits-to-maps.html http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction... [2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/google-maps-api-vs-openstreetmap/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/google-maps-api-vs-openstre... [3] http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/22/google-maps-api-gets-massive-price-cut-in-the-wake-of-developer-defections/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/22/google-maps-api-gets-massiv... What's to say the GCE pricing won't also yo-yo like this?