This comes just a week after Yahoo! met Google's massive 1 gigabyte free storage allotment. Will Yahoo! go toe-to-toe? And what are we going to do with all that storage? A Yahoo! spokesperson told Michael Bazeley at Silicon Beat: "at a certain point beyond 1 gigabyte, it's just a number and becomes irrelevant to most free e-mail users. As an offline analogy: Going beyond a gigabyte for free is like adding a bucket of water into an ocean.''
A possible point of differentiation for either of the Internet giants: cool ways to use all that storage. Consider the buzz Apple has created around the Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle -- what are these products for, and what will people actually do with them?
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Steve Rubel notes that Gmail also release new features. Read about them here. And if you want a Gmail invite, let us know.
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