Gmail is up to 2 gigs… and no one cares.
In an appparent attempt to win a Disk Space Pissing Contest with Yahoo, Google increased the mailbox size limit on Gmail accounts from 1 gigabyte to 2 gigabytes.
Ars Technica reported this development and noted, thankfully, that no Gmail user actually gives a shit. None of them used the full 1 gig. Hell, barely anyone languishing in the Purgatory of Hotmail uses the 250 MB capacity over there. It’s allll about the marketing. (Sadly, the parallels to Apple’s “number of songs on a iPod” marketing tack are striking… and just how many iPod owners use their devices’ full capacities, anyhow?)
The whole marketing schtick reminds me a bit of the “Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages” text sitting happily at the bottom of Google.com search page right now. Who cares if it’s an 8 billion page index if half of those pages are shill Googlebomb placeholders? After all, Yahoo’s results seem to be looking more and more relevant every day, conveniently devoid of the dubious sites Google ranks so highly.
I guess size doesn’t matter after all.
April 1st, 2005 at 5:59 am
I have a 60 gig iPod filled to the brim. So I would love to have a bigger iPod.