&gt; <i>since API clients are essentially renting the vendor&#x27;s platform and launching businesses based on this, there needs to be some legally-enforced stability. I would like to see something like a landlord-tenant relationship.</i><p>Except when a tenant is kicked out of their apartment with no notice, they might literally die. When Routebuilder gets shut down (with at least 2 weeks notice if not more, according to the article), someone organizing a marathon might... have to use a different, also free service?<p>And let&#x27;s not forget that Google is a private enterprise offering an absolutely insane amount of data and access for free. The bar for &quot;legitimate reason&quot; to revoke API access is (and should be) legally no higher than &quot;Google wants to.&quot; They actually go quite a bit above and beyond by having Terms that you can read and that as far as I can tell they abide by.