Yahoo recently announced their “to infinity and beyond” unlimited email storage, and from that has come several things to think about. First, can any service truly offer “unlimited” storage to everybody? There has to be some cut off point, doesn’t there? Secondly, how much is too much? Do users really need that much storage?
Even extreme power email users probably don’t need that much storage. Especially when most people have at least two accounts – one for work, one for home, one for school, family, etc. With multiple accounts, you’re sure to have plenty of room.
To wrap up this topic, here are the results of our last poll where we asked , “You’ve got lots of email storage, but how much do you actually use?”
— Poll Results—
There were 343 votes total, and out of those, 42% of voters said they used between 51 and 500 MB of their storage space. Next was 0–10 MB with 19% of the votes. Very few people used anything more than 500 MB of storage.
Certainly, a lot of people are happy that Yahoo has made the move to “unlimited” storage and because of that, other services will probably follow. Regardless of how much storage space everyone uses, not one person can complain about the price for email storage these days. It’s free!
although adding some nice features while keeping the same storage space they offered would have been a better idea, how about making the attachment 100MB or allowing for POP3 or forwarding and so on..
I definitely agree with the attachment size increase! That would be more beneficial to more people than unlimited storage!
Opps, I made a comment that I want to delete but I can’t.
I agree that attachment sizes definitely need to get bigger, but they have been at the same size for what seems like forever. Once file storage solutions start to become a bigger reality then maybe attachment sizes will grow accordingly. It would probably be silly for Google to offer unlimited file storage with 100MB filesize limitations and still just have 10MB attachment limits. They are probably looking for ways to remove nearly all limitations.
They should definitely be making @yahoo.com addresses POP3 enabled. Especially as they don’t charge for it in other countries (or so I’ve heard). They want to keep the attachment sizes and POP3 service cut off so that they can try and sell people on Yahoo! Mail Plus. Does anyone actually pay for this? I honestly wonder how much money they are making on it. And with Google POP3 enabled, they’re going to have to give up the ghost if they want to maintain their hold on the email market.
I think they definitely need to drop the Yahoo! Mail plus program, especially now that they’re offering unlimited storage.
Actually I do know some people who pay for the Yahoo! Mail Plus service simply for the POP access. I try to convince them to switch to Gmail but that just sounds like too much work for some people.