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it was obviously marketing material, but if this tweet is right, then it was just blatant false advertising.

• kjkjadksj 3y ago
  Google always does fake advertising. “Unlimited” google drive accounts for example. They just have such a beastly legal team no one is going to challenge them on anything like that.
  • Dylan16807 3y ago
    What was fake about unlimited google drive? There were some people using petabytes. The eventual removal of that tier and anything even close speaks to Google's general issues with cancelling services, but that doesn't mean it was less real while it existed.
    • ambrose2 3y ago
      What about when gmail was released and the storage was advertised as increasing forever, but at first they just increased it infinitesimally slower and then stopped increasing it all.
      • Dylan16807 3y ago
        Oh, long before google drive existed? I don't remember the "increasing forever" ever being particularly fast. I found some results from 2007 and 2012 both saying it was 4 bytes per second, <130MB per year. So it's true that the number hasn't increased in ten years, but that last increase was +5GB all by itself. They've done a reasonable job of keeping up. Arguably they should have kept adding a gigabyte each year, based on the intermittent boosts they were giving, but by that metric they're only about 5GB behind.