![]() ![]() By the way, want to freak yourself out? Click on the email counter on the top right side of the Gmail page and choose to sort mail by oldest first. ![]() You don’t know me very well if you don’t know that’s the plan I’m on (just call me Packrat Pressman).īut actually how much storage do you need for Gmail? My 14 years of personal email and whatnot, including some 18,000 messages in my primary in-box, are currently consuming a grand total of 5.66 GB. Both giants will also sell you a whopping 2 TB, enough to store an estimated 170 million pages of Word documents, for $100 or $120. At 20 cents a gig, Google’s plan is just a little cheaper than Apple’s intro 50 GB plan that works out to 24 cents a gig. Today you can get 100 GB of cloud storage for $20 year (that I remember paying $150 for a 400 megabyte hard drive once is just crazy). ![]() But it’s also true that the amount Google charges for extra storage has been falling over time. It’s true that the limit for free storage hasn’t been raised since 2013, when the ‘Plexers said we could stash 15 GB of digital detritus across Gmail, Drive, and Photos without charge. Google always limited the amount of storage for your mail and attachments and charged if you wanted more. On the other hand, it might deter people from using Gmail, hitting advertising revenue in ways not obvious to those outside the company.īut there’s one big problem with the scare story: Gmail has never been totally free. Even for a giant like Google, with revenue of $75 billion in the first half of this year, that’s a significant sum. If just 10% of Gmail users coughed up $100 a year, that would be $15 billion. It’s certainly a potential revenue source of great depth. The scare was that Google was going to start “ making us pay” for Gmail. Despite the season, though, I’m here to tell you it will all be okay. It’s the free email service with over 1.5 billion users that probably far too many of us depend on for all our personal online communication needs. You may have read some scary headlines this week, the week before Halloween, about Gmail. ![]()
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