Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit

An anonymous reader writes "Google claims that people are devouring capacity with photos and other attachments on its Gmail e-mail service faster than the company can add to it at its current pace. So Google said on Friday that it would increase the rate at which it is adding capacity to its web-based service. There's only one problem, Google's main competitors — Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail — far surpassed Gmail this year with their own capacity."

Comments

Passed up, nothing

[stonecypher]

Yahoo! Mail went to unlimited like six months ago. Anyone still watching their mail space should focus their time fending off mastodon with their obsidian knives.

Re:hands up

[Enderandrew]

I haven't filled my inbox, but I use GMail to the Maxx!!!

it's true!

[ClippySay]

/ It's true, people is attaching files of \
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Re:hands up

[ukatoton]

NOOOOOO! Leave my 3069 MB alone!

Re:just one new feature

[Duncan3]

It takes at least 5,001 engineers to figure out how to delete attachments, and Google only has 5,000. So it's really just beyond them to figure it out. It's not like the code to do that is just laying around in a dozen open source packages or anything.

I've known dozens of people what "worked" at Google, and they all say it's just one big party. The only people that work are the low-paid ad sales crew - the ones responsible for 99.9% of last quarter's revenue.

If it doesn't sell ads, noone works on it.