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> 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
by 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 agoThey 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 agoThat link just suggests people mistook "free tier increases" for "infinite"... which isn't much of a promise