Does Apple have a comparable program?
I don't see a reference in the Apple materials about any bounty reward program for Apps vulnerabilities [1]. If this is true, then Google was going above and beyond and is now simply reverting to the mean so they can reduce any potentially excess financial spend. Maybe they don't actually care so much about their users after all? If they were shifting the limited funds to a more effective vehicle, they missed the prime opportunity to mention it (tongue in cheek, because Elgoog doesn't have real resource constraints).