Prediction #8: Someday I will voluntarily pay Google for one of their services.
Pretty close; there have been recent signs of this. Appengine is switching to a stricter payment plan. Google Apps for domain reduced their free user limit to 10. A lot of free API's are shutting down and some new ones require billing (Prediction, Storage, Search).
Although, in his particular case, it's Google paying him for his services...
Some things like the online photo albums have pretty low limits (1G storage). If I end up paying it will probably be for that. Despite having my own web-server, the link-in to my Android phone is huge convenience factor.
Pretty close; there have been recent signs of this. Appengine is switching to a stricter payment plan. Google Apps for domain reduced their free user limit to 10. A lot of free API's are shutting down and some new ones require billing (Prediction, Storage, Search).
Although, in his particular case, it's Google paying him for his services...