I understand Google's reasons behind the change of pricing. However the way 
you're going about it is completely amateur and the perfect example of how 
to alienate your customers. Here are the main reasons:

1. I am an early adopter. We've read the FAQs and docs when signing up and 
chose GAE because of the lucrative CPU time based billing, I learny Python 
only to be able to take advantage of this. This was the core of the service 
which you're now throwing out the window.

2. I trusted Google enough to build and scale on GAE - of course it was in 
preview but Gmail was in beta for 3 years and nothing changed after that 
went stable. How was I to assume that leaving preview will include dramatic 
changing in the service offered (CPU time) and pricing (now up 400% on my 
side). Oh, right, should have probably not put trust in Google.

3. Transition time: after 3 years of preview you've suddenly given us 2 
weeks to adjust to the new environment... except the new environment still 
has faults (no Python 2.7 and the scheduler buggy). Today you've extended 
this by another week and a half. This is a completely unreasonable timeframe 
and the fact that even the GAE team doesn't have a set date implies that 
there's quite some chaos going on on your side as well.

4. Communication: all you've provided as guidance is a few liner pricing 
page, a blog post and a really short FAQ - all that barely go into any 
detail. Guess we'll have to figure out how to optimize for the new system. 
It's pretty clear from this form that either Google doesn't care about the 
few hundred percent of price increase that its customers will have to pay 
without investing heavily into optimizing their apps or that this was 
actually the motive (I remember Google started out as "Don't be evil" - but 
that was a while back).

I have been very much disappointed in how this situation is being (not) 
communicated and handled. I've completely lost the hard earned trust in 
Google. I'll try to optimize my app as much as I can and at the same point 
make steps to migrate to more viable platforms. This bitter lesson is also 
alienating me from using other Google developer platforms and services.

If you ask me you've just gained and tested a great enterprise cloud service 
(congratulations for that) and slapped all the early adopter developers 
using it in the face, degrading them to Guinea pig testers (congratulations 
for that as well). I would call this a short sighted move, but then again 
that's probably why I'm not running the GAE team.


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