Gmail was invite only at one point. I remember when everyone was clamoring for an invite. I wonder if it would’ve had the same success without that hype.
Hard drives have grown in capacity far beyond 3x in the same time period. Even more so if you consider the $/GB value rather than just max capacity.
It's now 15GB, but if you use Drive or Photos it uses the same quota pool.
Conspiracy theory: Google refused to implement an option to disable inserting email quotes in responses, knowing that such an option would make more efficient use of storage space.
Quota is used by attachments, which Google refuses to let you delete, because they want you tomoay for storage.
Storage is 18% full - Using 5.3 GB of 30 GB
I think I have some time until I need to delete or pay.
Would you rather they parse all your private communications for advertising profile purposes and keep it free-as-in-Facebook?
It was basically a decade-plus free trial. I can’t see how that was a bad deal.
I pay for email(Fastmail) because I want to support the team working on keeping my main communication channel working smoothly, and would rather not have my emails parsed by the advertising surveillance state.
At minimum, they do this for internal use.
Is this sarcasm? You know they literally do this, right?
And even if they didn't, not doing it doesn't give them a pass to promise people something and then take it back.
GMail was also in beta for a really long time like > 2 years.
You don't need to generate hype when your product is that good. Same as you don't need to generate power for an electric car powered by an antimatter generator.