what's google's intention with gmail?

[tami]

so the gmail main page still indicates that google is intending to give more and more space to gmail users and the number slowly increases -- even right now.

my question: is this going to last forever, or are they going to stop that anytime soon? and why is it still happening?

i guess there's an appeal factor to consistently increasing the space (albeit slowly), but i wonder why they are still doing it -- no complaints here, though -- i find it fun.

i just wonder if they have any intentions for making the account capacity at 5gb or 10gb or stopping at an arbitrary number like 2154.29329348 gb or continuing this forever (it's not going too fast so maybe that's their goal).

thoughts?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Publicity.

It's not like anybody will ever use that much space.

That being said. My GMail drive is getting bigger and bigger every day

 

[CTrainBEB]

i'm still waiting for be offered some dough for my 50 invites from some spammers

 

[monk3y]

Just a ploy to keep sucking in all the users that use hotmail and yahoo... and they WILL prevail

 

[JoeKing]

it also acts like an advertisment to potentional clients google will market your email addys to. :evil:

But I bet they'll eventually cap the storage. Right now it's just a great way to gather more users.

 

[alien42]

they are increasing the space but the increase is getting smaller which can theoretically go on forever and not amount to that much space

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: CTrainBEB
i'm still waiting for be offered some dough for my 50 invites from some spammers

Back when email invites were going for $50 on ebay, I bought mine for 25K meat and some food on KoL

 

[CTrainBEB]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Back when email invites were going for $50 on ebay, I bought mine for 25K meat and some food on KoL

damn, i missed my chance!

 

[FlyLice]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Publicity.

It's not like anybody will ever use that much space.

That being said. My GMail drive is getting bigger and bigger every day

whoa that is so tite

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
That being said. My GMail drive is getting bigger and bigger every day

that is sweeeeeet. thanks for the link

 

[FoBoT]

that is like asking why the Borg assimulate races/planets

 

[intogamer]

yeh gmail drive helps me benifit gmail

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: FlyLice

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Publicity.

It's not like anybody will ever use that much space.

That being said. My GMail drive is getting bigger and bigger every day

whoa that is so tite

Seriously. I'd be a little cautious of saving anything too important on it, though.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Seriously. I'd be a little cautious of saving anything too important on it, though.

All it does is email the attachment to yourself.

It'd be no different than if you logged in via a browser.

Set the recipient to yourself. Attached the file. threw in a little subject\blurb and hit send.

It's just a really slick way of doing all that for you with a nice drag & drop.

Pic

Mine hasn't been used much.

The 10MB limit kinda kills the deal

but it's GREAT for sharing files with friends

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
that is like asking why the Borg assimulate races/planets

and that, too, is an EXCELLENT question!