I hate loads of rubbish, like this in particular.
Why GMail is so popular? Why its the biggest thing on this side of the universe? Yes, it is because of the space it offers, and some of the unique features it has. Not to mention that it is also owned by the largest internet search engine company, Google.
Who is to say that GMail is not in beta testing stage? That changes are not continually being made to the service? (Such as backend and system things), that reported bugs are being fixed. Not him, not anyone else. Just because you can’t see any changes being made does not mean the system is no longer being developed, it may even be that the code running behind the public demonstration is not even the latest.
The idea of the whole invite system is to get as many users in to using GMail as much as possible to get as much testing on the system before it is actually released to the mainstream public. That’s exactly what happened, and how it happened was intentional.
So what about the compression? It doesn’t mean you don’t get your 1000 MB of email space, it just means its compressed down on the server. Hotmail and Yahoo already have similar things in place where existing/older messages are compressed on the server to save space. It seems logical to me.
People give away invites, out of their own generosity. They don’t have to. Who cares if they do?
You can’t use the argument about there being so many developed applications for GMail. What about Windows for example? TweakUI, TweakCPL, XSetup, Powertoys, and every other “extension” program there is for Microsoft Windows.
And the answer to whats next, yes, GMail will be able to cook your dinner soon too. :rolleyes:
It does appear that the author has posted a “counter article”. At first I was going to sit by and follow Lobster’s advice and not actually reply to it. I just wanted to point this out: Maddox’s website. Segosa’s website. Wow, they look pretty familiar to me. I wonder who copied who. These are the lame kind of tactics this author uses – he picked up on a spelling mistake and afew grammer mistakes in my article. Good work genious :rolleyes:
Now. When you develop beta software, do you put it all online for users to see whilst it’s still buggy or not properly tested? Sure, some companies do. Others have a commitment to their users to provide a stable service. Look at Google. Look how popular GMail is. If Google were to update to a buggy version, even though its still in beta, what would the look the users would cast against it?
In his updated article, his counter argument about the space was he was just saying that GMail don’t reserve you a whole 1 GB of space. That’s exactly the same as other email providers such as Hotmail and Yahoo. Don’t you think that when Hotmail ups its free accounts to 250 MB there is going to be a lot of accounts being moved around on servers? To minimise this they compress the emails, which also means you don’t get 250 MB of “actual” space.
You can visit his site all you want too, he needs the hits.
This is my last post regarding this matter, as I couldn’t really care about what this person posts, I was just picking an example.