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Google to offer paid storage increases for Gmail and Picasa
Starting at around $20 per year, Gmail users will be able to inflate their inbox with an additional 6GB. Or they can go for the really beefy option, which at $500 a year will net you 250GB of space. That's a lot of space, but that's also a lot of money. The pricing schemes seem to apply to both services. Likely if it takes off they may expand it to other Google offerings.
Why are they doing such? Certainly not for backup reasons - $500 can you get a lot more than 250GB of space, such as in the form of USB drives.
Despite using Gmail since nearly its inception, I've yet been able to come close to filling that 2.8GB of space. However, Google woudn't be offering this service if they didn't think people would want it, so obviously there are many who do. The article mentions in particular people who treat Gmail as an online backup solution, which could easily fill up 2.8GB. Could this bleed itself into other services as well? Paid searches? Paid video content? I'd hate to see Google become just another “lite” vs “premium” provider, like so many good products and companies do.
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Indeed it would suck to see Google become [quote]another “lite” vs “premium” provider, like so many good products and companies do.[/quote]However [seeing as I believe they will run that road] perhaps Google will set itself apart from other companys by having very generous and feature-full products/services available to the public for free.
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Seconded, i'm not so glad to hear Google taking this path, but i guess that it's not so easy for them to offer up to 6Gb to everyone. Even more now because when they began doing the gmail stuff with so much storage, they were not so popular, and you could only register by invitations (5 per user at the beginning).Now Sign Up for gmail and its very useful 3Gb is free and available for eveyone, and to my opinion the 6Gb for $20 a year is not so expensive.
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Well..I haven't had this GMail account for more than two months (I think).I didn't pay for anything. In fact - I payed for box.net storage.Then there's this screen-shot I took today:[url]http://www.box.net/shared/ep6o5vbug9[/url]
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Feeling alil weird, seeing that. It's surprising, if you know what I mean.
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