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As per Gmail’s infinite+1 plan, their storage space is ever increasing, but rival Yahoo! Mail quickly spoilt Gmail’s game by offering unlimited storage space. Inevitably, Gmail has responded back by speeding up the storage counter on their homepage. The free storage space will gradually increase in upcoming days. According to numbers put up by Googlified:
Gmail’s storage space will reach 4.2GB by October 23rd. It will grow by another 2.8GB by January 4th, which takes the total free storage to 6GB. After January 4th, Gmail’s storage space will grow by 3.3MB every day, which approximately comes up to 10 times than current growth rate. And by the year 2038, Gmail will offer a whooping 42GB of storage. Cool!
Google’s paid storage has been upped as well. For the same price, you’ll be getting around 50% more storage.
- 10GB for $20 per year
- 40GB for $75 per year
- 150GB for $250 per year
- 400GB for $500 per year
Eventually, the number might sound too unrealistic, but in the current scenario, I think Gmail must really abandon their infinity+1 plan and jump onto unlimited storage bandwagon, just like how Yahoo! did.
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wrote, on October 12th, 2007
No thilak ! i support gmail on this. Spaces are like chocolates, you have to enjoy each bite and then complete eating it. Not like what yahoo did, dumping the whole candy in mouth!
I like the way google employees think! even though now i love to see my inbox increase !
wrote, on October 12th, 2007
Sankaranand: Either ways, it’s good for users right?
wrote, on October 13th, 2007
you mean enjoy every byte….LOL
wrote, on October 13th, 2007
gmail started their service by invite mode which in turn contributed a part of success. So basically everything depends on the way of marketing !
wrote, on October 13th, 2007
gmail will soon replace my drives…when will that day come?
wrote, on October 13th, 2007
Oh this is great news! I had just upgraded my storage and I was annoyed because I didn’t know they were upping everything! But if they’re upping the paid storage too, I’m good with that!
wrote, on October 13th, 2007
But that counter was really interesting. I’d say that it is one of the things which gave it popularity. If they go on to unlimited, I don’t think it’ll match its marketing strategies. I think it needs to innovate something different to bring back customers from Yahoo!
wrote, on October 13th, 2007
Sreejith: You are right, but that counter got a little more interesting as it counts at a faster rate now.