Besides the obvious extra income that the API generates. Am I right in understanding that the reasoning behind charging for API usage is to encourage most efficient use of the service? Are there any plans for the API charge to be reduced/removed if the code that calls it can be agreed 'most efficient'? For example, Adwords Editor (as a google application) dose not 'cost', but must use the API. Is the main reason that this application is 'free' is that it is trusted google code? Or is it because it is a 'human' interface tool like the website? I would hate to be cynical and assume that the whole thing was google's continual resistence to other people's code using it's service.
Those of us who work 'back of house' trying to improve the lives of those having to deal with long lists of activity are being negatively affected by the fact that (in the case of google, and google alone) we are costing extra money. It maybe 'relatively' small when viewed from the point of view of google's overall ad revenue, however from the point of view of small department budgets and extra £50 a week adds up. Especially when the department (in my case) is one person. In this economic climate those of us who are not directly fee earners have to be very careful to not appear as a drain on company resources. I wonder, yet, if the API charge has lead to a developer losing their job? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
