I remember back in 2004 when Gmail gave me an account with 1 gb of storage space. And the storage space constantly grew! This crushed their competition. Google promised that I would never need to delete another email again. They had a great motto for their storage: "Infinity +1." I was thrilled. I thought that would last me my entire lifetime.
Gmail's storage has now grown to about 7.5 gb. But the growth has slowed down...it has slown down a lot. It grows so slowly now that I'm not sure it can accurately be described as real growth. The competition has caught up. Both Yahoo! and Hotmail now offer unlimited email storage.
7.5 gb of storage seemed like an infinite amount of storage in 2004, but it's no longer 2004. It's almost 2011, attachments are bigger, large newsletters arrive in my inbox every few minutes, and I can fill up that much storage space in a month if I wanted to.
So, now what? Gmail is awesome on a Blackberry and their features are great...but switching to a new inbox that I will outgrow in a year or two seems silly.
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