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> back when 4MB quotas were the norm Hotmail had a very low quota, somewhere in the 1 MB to 10 MB limit, so users had to delete an email before sending a new e
by redis_mlc 6y ago
> back when 4MB quotas were the norm
Hotmail had a very low quota, somewhere in the 1 MB to 10 MB limit, so users had to delete an email before sending a new email. lol.
That was the motivation for most users to switch, not "because gmail is fast," despite the humblebrag.
- svantana 6y agoExactly. Paul B gets a lot of credit for designing a nice AJAX product, but me and most people switched from hotmail mainly because of the storage, and partially because of google's cool aura at the time (remember "don't be evil"?) The search bar was nice but would have been pointless in hotmail where you were forced to delete your old emails anyway.