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I don't know what the story is behind this but if Apple is upgrading people I'd say it's a smart move. Call it the "Gmail Rule" which states "You should give p
by TomOfTTB 17y ago
I don't know what the story is behind this but if Apple is upgrading people I'd say it's a smart move. Call it the "Gmail Rule" which states "You should give people a monstrous amount of storage because it's great PR and 99.9% of people won't come anywhere near using it anyway"
End Result: Happier customers for almost no cost (With storage as cheap as it is the .1% who do use a lot of space will still be relatively cheap to maintain)
- Dobbs 17y agoThere is a difference between email space and storing files. It is hard work to store lots of emails. Particularly when gmail has a limit on size of attachments. Data storage, easy to abuse.
- jonknee 17y agoIt's a lot of work to store this much data too. 2TB would take weeks/months to fill up on almost everyone's internet connection (5 megabits up = 39 days).
- TomOfTTB 17y agoYou're certainly right but I still think the number of power users who would even be able to fill 1TB worth of space is minimal. I mean, your average Mac is only sporting about half that. Plus, since you can't exactly stream your audio/video files of iDisk I'd imagine that would cut down on a lot of abuse (since most people want their media on hand)