| Exactly. As an early adopter, I brought who knows how many souls to gmail. I set up a couple small companies on Google Apps, or whatever they want to call it this year. (Mine is called GAFYD...) When Google gave me a free HTC Magic handset in San Francisco, I showed it to everyone. I performed tricks with it. I made people want one. To this day, three members of my immediate family use newer models of my old Pixel phone. I told a man with a lot of CPU heavy jobs that GCE exists. I'm talking about "influence" a lot.. but let's be clear, that's not all. Google knows me--or at least it had the opportunity to. Somewhere between all those referrals and the emails in my mbox files at gmail and GAFYD which pre-date the launch of those services by a decade or my bug reports, or working in one of their datacenters for a while, they should know that I helped them be what they are today. Maybe they do. Maybe this kind of treatment is what I deserve. (to reiterate what others have posted, it isn't about the money. It's about the major unplanned migration. Which they still have not notified me about.) |