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just like unlimited yahoo mail space, or google's unlimited email space or that airline from 80's that took back through technicalities the "lifetime" ticket, no?

I would not trust anything that's long term more than 10 years, and even that is a stretch. I agree with GP, it's a cash grab.

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>or that airline from 80's that took back through technicalities the "lifetime" ticket, no

As far as I'm aware American Airlines only revoked two lifetime AAirpasses of the 60+ sold; both were accused of using their companion pass fraudulently. From what I remember one was accused of approaching people at the airport and attempting to sell his companion seat, the other was accused of using his companion pass to book a seat next to his for a nonexistent person so he wouldn't have to sit next to anyone.

We don’t even have to go back to the 80s to find this kind of impermanence.

When the war between Ukraine and Russia first started, energy prices in Europe skyrocketed, causing several utility companies to cancel their customers’ existing fixed-rate plans, to instead pass on all expenses.

Force majeure is almost always an exception to contracts, and for good reason.

and yet it probably would not have been "force majeure" if it had gone the other way

Google never had unlimited email space. They launched at 1GB (which seemed huge) and increased it over the years, but it was never unlimited.

They marketed it at the time as being "unlimited", which at the time was a reasonably fair description

Can you point to any archived material with that claim? Many of us have been around to remember everything from that time period, and they never made such a claim in my memory. When Gmail launched there was a very prominent bar graph at the bottom of every page that told you how much storage you were using and how much was available.

I was around at that time and I definitely remember the 'unlimited' phrase in the press. I'm sure youre also correct about the bar graph though. Although as I remember it they kept lifting the ceiling of that bar graph faster than anyone could fill it up

All of those services maintain a clause stating they can revoke that "unlimited" service at-will. I doubt that's the case here.

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