On Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:45:23 UTC+1, zdravko wrote: > > >> Because you can't just put me out of business... that's not how business > works. > > GOOG can certainly put you out of existence by suddenly pricing their > services out of your affordability range. > But if they want to charge me extortionate rates, they have to do it to the whole appengine customer base.
> >> You can't just steal a customer base that easily. > > Without you in business, your customer base will go to whoever is > providing the same service. > But I would just move my service to another host, keeping my customer base. > >> And no, I don't really see any similarity to Microsoft. Comparing apples > with oranges. > > Nevertheless, both apples and oranges are our dependencies on their > monopolies and self serving control. > I think you're being unfair. Google has never tried to exercise its near-monopoly on the market like Microsoft did and still does. Google is where it is because it's products are the best. It destroyed hotmail and yahoo mail with gmail by just making a better alternative and you can still get to hotmail through google search, can't you? Why would you though - it's crap. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/eTEZsm0mUJcJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
