Seems to me that when you intentionally lead people to believe that they can depend on you for something in a way that they wouldn't otherwise have, you create an obligation for yourself to keep that promise.

Should be that way, anyway.

In the case of Google, it's been building product during the last 10 years by doing the following:

- offering a free product; - letting people build stuff with it; - create some sort of business model and profit.

Google relies on the community to live. e.g: there would be no android without dev creating app for it, so they provide a system API letting you create something on it. Without that, Android would be an empty shell.

It's a win-win situation, but to work it needs respect from both sides. Here, I don't see any kind of respect from Google, just another beta product trashed.

They have the right to do it, but as a developer, I have the right to not want my time wasted. Hence, if Google wants its community to thrives, it needs to be nice with the people being part of it.