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They own .blog so I am guessing they can at least keep that part of the bargain. As to what level of service they can maintain over 100 years, or whether the we
by robjan 3y ago
They own .blog so I am guessing they can at least keep that part of the bargain. As to what level of service they can maintain over 100 years, or whether the web as we know it will continue to exist, remains to be seen.
- unnouinceput 3y agojust 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.
- xcdzvyn 3y agoAll of those services maintain a clause stating they can revoke that "unlimited" service at-will. I doubt that's the case here.
- readams 3y agoGoogle never had unlimited email space. They launched at 1GB (which seemed huge) and increased it over the years, but it was never unlimited.
- codeulike 3y agoThey marketed it at the time as being "unlimited", which at the time was a reasonably fair description
- callalex 3y agoCan 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.
- codeulike 3y agoI 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
- refactor_master 3y agoWe 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.
- CamelCaseName 3y agoForce majeure is almost always an exception to contracts, and for good reason.
- redeeman 3y agoand yet it probably would not have been "force majeure" if it had gone the other way
- i_am_jl 3y ago>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.