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What about the infinite email? They said with Gmail, all the email would be free, and infinite, and forever. That you'd never have to delete email again. Now

by cnst 6y ago

What about the infinite email? They said with Gmail, all the email would be free, and infinite, and forever. That you'd never have to delete email again. Now I have to pay them 1,99 USD/mo just to continue using my email, even though the majority of the email in my mailbox are the public OSS mailing lists -- which could "easily" be compressed if they had wanted to. P.S. I specifically checked for large attachments using the search -- almost nothing; Google quite literally makes me pay just to have access to searching the OSS mailing lists that I'm subscribed to.

gerash 6y ago
Oh no. Don't you want to be the customer and not the product by paying for a service you use?
- cnst 6y ago
  Just because they extort a payment from you, doesn't mean you're not the product.
- throwaway810 6y ago
  You can pay all you want and still be the product.
duskwuff 6y ago
> They said with Gmail, all the email would be free, and infinite, and forever. Where? Gmail's initial publicity all focused around the fact that it provided 1 GB of storage, and would slowly grow over time. I don't remember them ever promising "infinite" storage.
- cnst 6y ago
  They had big infographics that their storage was more than infinity. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-24/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-24/gmail-hook... > A big driver of the shift is Gmail. Google shook up the email business when Gmail launched in 2004 with much more free storage than rivals were providing at the time. It boosted the storage cap every couple of years, but in 2013 it stopped. People’s in-boxes kept filling up. And now that some of Google’s other free storage offers are shrinking, consumers are beginning to get nasty surprises.
  - setr 6y ago
    That link just suggests people mistook "free tier increases" for "infinite"... which isn't much of a promise
kazinator 6y ago
1. I remember that as far back as 2004 and 2005, Gmail already posted showed in the UI how much the user was using, out of the total. 2. As a freeloader, you are not in any contract with Gmail; this article is about Local Guides who did a form of work for Google, in exchange for a form of compensation, which is easily seen as a contract.

by cnst 6y ago

gerash 6y ago

Oh no. Don't you want to be the customer and not the product by paying for a service you use?

cnst 6y ago
Just because they extort a payment from you, doesn't mean you're not the product.
throwaway810 6y ago
You can pay all you want and still be the product.

duskwuff 6y ago

> They said with Gmail, all the email would be free, and infinite, and forever. Where? Gmail's initial publicity all focused around the fact that it provided 1 GB of storage, and would slowly grow over time. I don't remember them ever promising "infinite" storage.

cnst 6y ago
They had big infographics that their storage was more than infinity. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-24/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-24/gmail-hook... > A big driver of the shift is Gmail. Google shook up the email business when Gmail launched in 2004 with much more free storage than rivals were providing at the time. It boosted the storage cap every couple of years, but in 2013 it stopped. People’s in-boxes kept filling up. And now that some of Google’s other free storage offers are shrinking, consumers are beginning to get nasty surprises.
- setr 6y ago
  That link just suggests people mistook "free tier increases" for "infinite"... which isn't much of a promise

kazinator 6y ago

1. I remember that as far back as 2004 and 2005, Gmail already posted showed in the UI how much the user was using, out of the total. 2. As a freeloader, you are not in any contract with Gmail; this article is about Local Guides who did a form of work for Google, in exchange for a form of compensation, which is easily seen as a contract.