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1 Apr 2005, 01:40 PM | #1 |
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Google plans to double Gmail capacity
More hot news: Google plans to double Gmail capacity to 2 Gb...
http://news.com.com/Google+plans+to+...tag=html.alert Excerpt: Google plans to offer a bottomless cup of storage with its Gmail Web-based e-mail service, dramatically raising the bar for rivals in the sharply competitive business for the second time in a year. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web giant on Friday plans to double the free storage on Gmail from 1GB to 2GB, said Georges Harik, Gmail product management director. After that, Google will add a yet-to-be-determined amount of extra storage daily, with no plans to stop. The move highlights the seemingly inexhaustible storage needs of a small group of heavy e-mail users, and the sharply falling costs of online storage. Lifting pre-defined storage caps for Web-based e-mail could have broader ripple effects, Harik said, changing the way people think about quotas from something that is set in advance to something that grows with the user. |
1 Apr 2005, 01:42 PM | #2 |
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Well, what on earth is going on in the free email world! Is there a method to this madness lol
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1 Apr 2005, 02:31 PM | #3 |
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2 GB and then add to this amount daily? Wow!
The last paragraph in the referenced article from news.com states that Gmail will remain in beta for now with no timeline for release. |
1 Apr 2005, 02:47 PM | #4 |
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Mine is already increasing in size....slowly. Every time I check my account, it goes up a little more.
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1 Apr 2005, 02:57 PM | #5 |
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really no need to throw anything away.
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1 Apr 2005, 03:34 PM | #7 |
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Storage Going Up!
My storage limit has gone up 75MB so tonight. It seems to go
up 1 MB every few minutes or so. Anybody got any idea what's going on? As of now my limit is 1078 MB. Charlie |
1 Apr 2005, 03:43 PM | #8 |
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Could be a joke... or a real-feature-masquerading-as-joke i.e. perhaps Google is moving to 1.5GB or 2GB, but is doing it in a "discussion-worthy" way. After all, they love creating a buzz!
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I swear I guessed before checking, but here's the relevant info straight off Gmail:-
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1 Apr 2005, 03:45 PM | #10 |
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My storage is going up also, maybe in proportion to the amount of usage. It could be part of the Google storage upgrade discussed here.
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/...threadid=34297 |
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1 Apr 2005, 03:57 PM | #12 |
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Relevant aside: My sincere advice to Gmail competitors is to stop trying to compete on storage! I am sure this announcement is going to prompt new calls for storage quota hikes on this forum and elsewhere, but I honestly don't believe you can ever out-do Google on that front. Any knee-jerk attempt to catch up will only cost more money, while benefitting a tiny tiny fraction of your userbase.
Instead, you need to focus on all the other things your service offering can do that Gmail can't - and start coming up with more points of differentiation. |
1 Apr 2005, 04:00 PM | #13 |
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Yahoo or Hotmail would have the capacity to do that. Tho I think that 2gb is just getting crazy - will it be 5? 10? no 50gb storage next?
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Storage costs continue to drop about 50% a year, so presumably Google could keep doubling capacity each year basically forever, so long as it's willing to pump cash into infrastructure. |
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1 Apr 2005, 04:10 PM | #15 |
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i'm using gamil as one of my main email services. so i'm checking it several times in a day. i noticed that my gmail account is now offering 1097 mbytes. gmail also added rich formatting. it's getting better.
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