Taque said:
So dare I ask where Google is getting all the gigabytes to supply 80 trillion accounts with enough space?
Well you have to take some things into consideration:
Not everyone who has a gig of free space will use it fully
Data compression can do wonders (excluding attachments)
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They just have to monitor security newsletters and script-hack their way into other peoples servers to use their space plus they need lots of space for the search engine anyway so they just order thousands of cheap IDE drives to build huge RAIDs and get a huge volume discount.
Personaly I don't need a Gmail account. I already have a gig of mail space that I don't use from a freemailer that doesn't have beta status.
Plus I'm one of those crazy guys who wave a *violation of privacy* sign.