Ok. If you build an app on top of the Real-time API and I use it, can you guarantee me that you will maintain the app as long as the API is live?

I doubt anything will change your opinions about Google:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=anon1385

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=anon1385

Carry on, I guess.

Yes I'm not a huge fan of Google, what is your point? They are a for profit corporation, so I'm not sure why I'm obliged to like them.

There has been a lot of Google news the last week, and loads of submissions on HN, so I've made quite a few posts on them. That is hardly comparable to having an account for a year or more but only ever posting in stories about a single corporation to defend that corporation.

I don't know why you linked my submissions, only 4 out of the last 30 of them, going back ~560 days were about Google or Google products.

I don't think anyone is saying that you're obligated to like them. The problem they have is probably with your tone, which suggests that Google is obligated to literally never, ever shut down any product they experiment with.

In what way does any of that invalidate his point ?

Both of the api are still available. Translate is the same as before but you must pay for it, google web search has been replaced by google custom search and you must pay for it.

His point is that things must never change?