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I remember when Gmail first came out to the public with a whopping 1GB of email storage, 50-100 times what the competitors were offering[1]. It was a great, str
by eggbrain 15y ago
I remember when Gmail first came out to the public with a whopping 1GB of email storage, 50-100 times what the competitors were offering[1]. It was a great, streamlined mail experience that users flocked to immediately, leaving Yahoo Mail and Hotmail in the dust.
If this leak is true, it will be one of the most underwhelming releases by Google in quite a while. 5GB? That's 2.5 times what Dropbox gives you for free (and they've been giving 2GB away for years), at parity with Amazon Cloud Drive (in 2011), and 1/5th of Microsoft's SkyDrive (25GB).
What happened to the Google that would release products that really rocked the boat?
[1] http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html
- Kylekramer 15y agoIf pure higher storage numbers are the way to rock the boat, wouldn't Dropbox be one of the least impressive options and everyone would be praising Skydrive? There is clearly much more than just greater bytes equals greater storage service. Even if Gmail only offered a similar amount of storage as Yahoo/Hotmail when it launched, it still would have been a leap forward for its interface alone (though the lanuch would have lost some of its punch, obviously).
- jxi 15y agoWell, did Box.net "rock the boat" by offering 50gb of storage for free? That's much more than any competitor, and frankly IMO most people would prefer Dropbox despite it's much smaller size for free users. There are many ways to rock a boat, and just offering whopping amounts of free stuff isn't the only way. Creating something genuinely useful is much more important. Gmail's storage was genuinely useful because it mean you never had to think about deleting emails anymore. We'll just have to see whether Google Drive will be useful or not...