This is exactly why I'll always be wary to depend on Google's services. And it isn't the first time they do this either.
First they monopolize the market via cheap rates and branding, then they make it exorbitantly expensive.
Wrong. It's completely acceptable. It's their business, and this is the risk you take when you make your business dependent on another business.
>This is exactly why I'll always be wary to depend on Google's services. And it isn't the first time they do this either. >First they monopolize the market via cheap rates and branding, then they make it exorbitantly expensive.
Google isn't the only company that does stuff like this. Almost any company would do this if they had the opportunity.
Very few business would do well in such an environment.
If Google raising prices obscenely "isn't acceptable", then what are YOU going to do about it? Nothing, right? Is Google going to change their ways because a few people proclaim "this isn't acceptable!"? No. Therefore, it IS acceptable.
I'm waiting to be proven wrong.... which will only happen if this price-raising is canceled, which I don't think it will be.