Comments on: Yahoo! Mail Is Offering Unlimited Storage

By: Aniela

Aniela — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:03:32 +0000

I think yahoo should work more on their spam filters. With gmail, I barely get any spam. My yahoo inbox gets over 250 spam messages/day. I guess now I can take advantage of the unlimited storage they offer

By: KwangErn Liew

KwangErn Liew — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:58:23 +0000

Email is only a small part on the services that each Google and Yahoo! provide.

Space is cheap now. It’s only naturally to go this way to give the “wow” effect, albeit a very small one for non-average users.

Also, non-average users don’t usually migrate from one account to another without a good reason.

By: Gaman

Gaman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:26:04 +0000

It’s true

By: iklan baris

iklan baris — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:38:59 +0000

Hi Sabahan, Is it true or just April Mop?
What unlimited means? ..
If google can give me unlimited , .. i can use my gmail drive to get unlimited harddisk cool.
BTW does any ne know if we have some kind of gmail drive in yahoo mail ?

thanks

By: bengodomon

bengodomon — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:04:52 +0000

Gmail can easily counteract that: they could also announce to offer the same thing, with more features, like ability to create folders.

By: Gaman

Gaman — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:02:00 +0000

I do believe offering unlimited space could attract new users. That’s what has been happening in the web hosting industry and people still fall for it.

By: Terzam

Terzam — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:27:20 +0000

In reality, nobody goes through 2GB per annum on their email accounts. You just can’t compare your work email with your personal one! The difference is the file attachments you get from work… ppts, doc and excels.

The fact is the cost of storage is DROPPING FAST! Marketing gimmicks such as these will not necessarily attract a lot of new users… (how many email accounts do I have now, 3-4!?)

The next step is to find a more intelligent way of storing my mail, music, movies etc!

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:45:41 +0000

Personally, I agree that this is just a marketing gimmick.

Assuming your personal emailing activity is just as robust as a typical work-related email, you’d probably consume around 2GB per annum; this of course assumes that you don’t delete a single email.

I’m sticking with Gmail not because of the storage size. I love the interface and I think the “Labels” concept is way better than the traditional “Folders” approach.

Plus it seems that Y! is setting certain restrictions on what sort of file you can store in your so-called “unlimited” storage.

What I’d like to see is what sort of API will they be showing to developers to play around with their “unlimited” mailboxes.

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