inasisi <inas...@gmail.com>

So all of us need to pay money for using the API, irrespective of how
big our spending is and how small our actual quota usage is? If so
despite all the flowery language that you have used to explain the
change, this reeks of "Bait & Switch" and hate to see a company like
Google get into such cheap practices. You initially provided the API
free of cost to us. Now that we have built all our systems around it
and has kind of become indispensable, you are turning around and going
to charge us for it. Mind you, my programs are very efficient as far as
the usage of my quota goes and I consume only a very small portion of
my monthly quota. But I still hate to have to pay for that usage
especially when we were not told about it initially.

What would be more equitable would be to assign a certain amount of
free quota to people based on their spend and then people can buy more
over and above that.