Very good point !
Google, please don't let us down.

On Sep 1, 5:42 pm, de Witte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Google,
>
> What are you doing? From the outside it looks like your team has no
> experience in how to deliver, market and sell a product.
>
>    1. You *know *that people will start screaming if their pricing is
>    raising from 300$ to 3000$.
>    2. You *know *that beforehand by analyzing the effect of new pricing on
>    your existing customers.
>    3. You *know *that people will leave because of this reason.
>    4. You *know *that people are making business plans with GAE, they will
>    move with these numbers.
>
> So why?
>
> Why didn't you contact them before, assisting them to make their app
> efficient and tuning your own model? If the community knows that there are
> large apps running on the cloud at a cost efficient plan, then it gives them
> *faith* to tune their own app.
>
> Suggestion:
>
>    - Put the python users on the old pricing model until 2.7 is ready.
>    - Contact all your 300$ -> 3000$ customers today!
>    - Make a new community group and add select 20 of these large customers,
>    work with them closely to optimize your pricing model and their 
> application.
>    Make the progress visible in this new group.
>    - Do not enable the new pricing model until 70% of these selected
>    customers are reasonable happy.
>
> Your product has a lot of potential, don't mess it up, due bad management.
>
> Any additional feedback is welcome.
>
> -Wendel

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