do we really need to see a post like this for every submission on a Google service? It seems pretty obvious GCE is fundamentally different than something like Reader/Wave, both consumer products (not platforms), given away for free, and very far from Google's main focus (cloud computing)
they are obviously putting incredible resources into GCE - comparing that to some of their consumer app experiments is just ridiculous
it's not very obvious when you look at the amount of service specific code, training, and learning for developers and opps that goes into committing to one of these iaas providers
google appears to create products via the shit and giggles method, with concomitant level of (non)commitment. it's an incredibly fair question to ask if this doesn't move the needle by becoming a $1B+ business inside a year or two, is Larry going to more wood fewer arrows it out of existence? And what would that do to any company with a couple person-decades of work poured into gce apis and services and internal training
also, if larry where smarter he could directly address this, eg: "Come hell or high water I promise google will support this business for a decade"
they are obviously putting incredible resources into GCE - comparing that to some of their consumer app experiments is just ridiculous