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This is PR, it doesn't need to be of use...fact is it's double what the competition offer, and that's all that matters!nagromme said:I'm not sure what commonplace real-world problems that solves, but OK
I welcome this.
I will probably use my gmail account as my primary personal address for a long time to come. I am liking the service very much at the moment.
I will probably use my gmail account as my primary personal address for a long time to come. I am liking the service very much at the moment.
Nermal said:Posted on a competitor's site even!
I noticed that too. Pretty solid of Yahoo, they probably don't want to get in a server farm battle against somebody who says "there's no limit..."
My limits at 1195 mb right now, whereas it was at 1gig last time I looked at the bottom. That's cool they're trying not to put a cap on the size, because that's basically the one thing you never want to worry about with web e-mail. Trying to move messages around to make space is a hassle.
Go google!
nagromme said:I'm not sure what commonplace real-world problems that solves, but OK
I use Gmail as my primary e-mail address, and I use their POP access and all of my incoming and outgoing e-mail is automatically archived by Gmail, so the more space the merrier.
I could absolutely see using up the 1GB in a year.
macridah said:
seriously, if apple was taking this sort of approch with .Mac that google is with thier GMail people would be signing up all the time, i know i would
Gmail and .Mac don't compare.
Economies of scale and revenue models aside, email storage can be offered affordably because most people won't even use a fraction of it. A few use 1 GB or more... but most use far, far less. iDisk, on the other hand, invites mass dumping of big files by a simply drag and drop--not to mention public hosting of content to people OTHER than the account owner: a bit more bandwidth.
Economies of scale and revenue models aside, email storage can be offered affordably because most people won't even use a fraction of it. A few use 1 GB or more... but most use far, far less. iDisk, on the other hand, invites mass dumping of big files by a simply drag and drop--not to mention public hosting of content to people OTHER than the account owner: a bit more bandwidth.
nagromme said:
Agreed. Although it would be nice for Apple to compete on storage space, we must remember something:
.Mac lives on beautiful, silver, reliable, expensive Xserve servers, and Google uses massly-obtained, second-hand PCs in huge warehouses.
Aside from that. .Mac is designed for tight integration into the computing experience that Google will never have. I believe we haven't seen nothing yet!
So what?coolfactor said:
When was the last time you went to visit your nice xserve just to admire it. Who cares. I want value for money, I don't give a monkeys how it's hosted, so long as it's reliable, which Google seems to be doing fine without "beautiful, silver, reliable, expensive Xserve servers".- nagromme
A fair point, but Apple still should be able to offer more. At worst 512MB.
edesignuk said:So what?
agreed, hopefully there will be some nice changes done to .Mac with Tiger being introduced, i wouldnt mind paying the money if i was getting something worthwhile at least, but as of right now there is no reason for me to sign up
It's an AP press release. Yahoo would have to take deliberate (and possibly difficult) action to block it. And if they did that, word would quickly get around, destroying Yahoo's reputation as a news source.Nermal said:Posted on a competitor's site even!
Not with 2GB+ of space they don't!AL-FAMOUS said:im using 0mb or 0% of 2018mb
do people not delete there unwanted mail anymore?
edesignuk said:
They will in time...4-6months. They won't be stopping the .Mac service for a long time yet or let it get (even more) embarrassing.
Personally, I don't need 2gig .... I spose 512 will be nice, but still not essential for my needs.