Yahoo! & E-mail
I’ll give Yahoo! some credit. They really are trying hard to compete with Google, that’s for damned sure. Take a quick read through this article. I’ll still be here, I promise.
OK? Cool.
You know it’s funny when the unofficial Yahoo! blog writes:
"the first serious challenge to Gmail since Google forced competitors to unsuccessfully chase its ever-expanding storage capacity."
When you are attempting to justify your products features and functionality against your top competitor’s, you are definitely in a tough spot. Yahoo! didn’t have the privilege of releasing a statement saying:
"Unprecedented Web-based e-mail storage."
Google had that fun. And they are still going strong. Check out the Gmail home page. They have that active disk space counter running there. I’ve seen it directly correlate to the space in my Gmail account — that’s awesome, and in my opinion, a genius blend of marketing and functionality.
Sadly, I think the only way Yahoo! is going to make a splash in the Web-based e-mail market now is to be the first to offer 1 terabyte of storage. That would be cool, and with the terabyte coming of age, I’m sure Google would step up the plate and offer 2-4 terabytes of space for each user. Imagine that, huh? The more space we get, the more crap we all find to fill it with. It’s like money — usually, the more you have, the more you spend.
