It seems that Yahoo is really missing the point. Its not a mail storage pissing contest to see who has the biggest drives that can service the most people. Rather, when Google unveiled their mail service, it was a very intuitive and inspired web based client that came with the added bonus of 1 gigabyte of storage. It also led to having a gmail account a status symbol, I still have other students and professors at my school clamoring for one. With the rest of the e-mail providers not understanding this, and just giving out increasing storage, it seems to me that they are doomed in the long run.
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It seems that Yahoo is really missing the point. Its not a mail storage pissing contest to see who has the biggest drives that can service the most people. Rather, when Google unveiled their mail service, it was a very intuitive and inspired web based client that came with the added bonus of 1 gigabyte of storage. It also led to having a gmail account a status symbol, I still have other students and professors at my school clamoring for one. With the rest of the e-mail providers not understanding this, and just giving out increasing storage, it seems to me that they are doomed in the long run.