Google App Engine is Hype?!

Some people are saying that Google’s latest offering is nothing more than an over-hyped me-too of Amazon’s S3 service. I’m almost tempted to think that said people are just playing the devil’s advocate. No knowing that much about either S3 or the Google app engine, I still have to chime in on this matter, being the google fanboy that I am!

I mean, seriously people, when was the last time Google did a me-too of anything? They don’t do me-too’s. The make acquisitions, and they do it the right way as a win-win for everyone. They buy out the company, pay them all mucho bucks, keep them all on staff and just give them more resources to improve their tool in the way they always wanted to anyways. And then, of course, they offer it for free to the public, so everyone wins.

If it’s not an acquisition, then it’s some amazingly awesome engineer’s 20% project that takes off.

And in either case, every single product they offer blows everyone else completely out of the water. I mean…completely. They just entirely annihalate all the competition, make it look easy, and slap a very nice, clean, and now-familiar user interface on the thing to boot!

So, I’m sorry, call me one of the mindless followers of all that is Google, but I can’t help it they just rock that much. I mean - gmail, google docs, the calendar, gears…all their API’s, oh did I forget search?

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