Google has 100,000 employees not one can offer up anything in defense of their pricing? That's sad, I'm sure they have some explanation for what they did, and why they did it, and how they want things to evolve from here. Would be nice to hear something even if it was PR laden.
This pricing hike is over a year and old and everywhere I see complaints and about it and not a shred of explanation from them.
I'd expect something like "Yes Google Maps was free for a long time, but it's a very expensive service to run, for the service to exist long term we needed to increase the cost. Here are some resources how to contain your costs. Here is how to apply to be a non-profit."
I have to believe there are hundreds of people at Google who fully understand this has ruined many people's projects, do they not feel some obligation to at least open up a channel of communication? Seems like a no-brainer.
Or are they just so embarrassed and so wracked with in-fighting that they can't stomach even authoring a post?
This pricing hike is over a year and old and everywhere I see complaints and about it and not a shred of explanation from them.
I'd expect something like "Yes Google Maps was free for a long time, but it's a very expensive service to run, for the service to exist long term we needed to increase the cost. Here are some resources how to contain your costs. Here is how to apply to be a non-profit."
I have to believe there are hundreds of people at Google who fully understand this has ruined many people's projects, do they not feel some obligation to at least open up a channel of communication? Seems like a no-brainer.
Or are they just so embarrassed and so wracked with in-fighting that they can't stomach even authoring a post?