Maybe not for people like my father, who's STILL on hotmail, but for people who use email heavily that was certainly a large part of the motivation. The desire to keep one constant email address is exactly why Gmail was so popular. Went from a dozen or so spams a day to less than one a month) So.I went from changing addresses every six months to having the same address for about eight years now. Some of that was due to storage, some due to spam (When gmail launched there was no comparison with the spam filters. I think I went through four email accounts in those two years. In the two years before gmail launched the situation with email storage was really getting to be a problem, due to increasing internet speed and file sizes. Yes, users don't want a new email address.
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Plus I've gone through four or five computers since getting Gmail, so files that I can currently just grab out of my email would have otherwise been scattered across six or seven hard drives. xyz than I am to remember where the hell I stored that file.
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I'm a lot more likely to remember that I got a PDF of that two semesters ago from Ms. Your guess is as good as mine as to what the limit was with a 2 meg inbox.) The search helps a lot too, though that's obviously related - no need for search it if you can't store it. Most providers still limit it to 10 megs, while Gmail is 20. 'email it to yourself' or even 'email it to me' was not a feasible way to transfer or store files until Gmail (Gmail was also the first, and still one of the few, providers to allow large attachments. For me at least, Gmail's storage capacity revolutionized email. Others - hell, I still have attachments of hundreds of kilobytes, sometimes even megabytes, from five years ago that I pull up occasionally. Granted, a lot of my gmail emails I could do without. I would generally overflow those in 6 months to a year. Before Gmail existed, the largest mailbox capacity that existed (as far as I know) was Fastmail, with 10 megs, with 1-2mb being common (hotmail, yahoo, aol, etc). My Gmail account is currently using 2.5 GIGS. They already have this problem in other markets. On top of that Google has serious problem with anti-competition regulators and this is just going to make those issues worse when Dropbox and other companies will demand Google to stop leveraging their search engine against them. They already know so much - hell, they track Slashdot too. Lastly, but even more so importantly, putting everything for Google to datamine and crawl is just stupid.
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Hell, most of them are free for home users, and I really wouldn't trust Google with my company or work data - I would use a professional hosting service with SLA and company that has no need to mine my data. There are tons of companies offering their services with ridiculously low profit margins. I also fail to see why this would get any good amount of users even if Google did advertise it correctly - unlike their search engine, gmail and youtube, cloud storage is nothing new. This would be a huge problem with cloud storage like Google Drive. For starters Google has a long history of abandoning projects after they fail to gain users on them. Today the R&D department of the company is in Budapest, however Tresorit is registered in Switzerland where Andreas Kemi is based, President of the Board and investor.There are two large, very real problems with Google Drive. István Lám who founded Tresorit in 2011 and is living in Hungary studied at the EPFL in Lausanne. We even developed a tool to help users migrate data securely from Wuala to Tresorit in collaboration with Wuala engineers”, writes Tresorit CEO István Lám in a blogpost. Everyone in our team is prepared and committed to deliver an excellent service. “We are proud that Wuala recommends Tresorit to their users to keep their files safe after Wuala shuts down.
In order to ease the impact of the Wuala service termination, Wuala has partnered with Tresorit-a provider of end-to-end encrypted cloud storage for businesses and individuals-and created a secure, easy option to transition data to Tresorit.
In 2009 they sold their company to LaCie – part of the Seagate Technology Group. Wuala has been founded by the Swiss entrepeneurs Dominik Grolimund and Luzius Meisser. Effective Sunday, 15 November 2015, the Wuala cloud service will terminate.
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Full account service will continue through 30 September 2015, at which point all active accounts will shift to read-only mode. Since yesterday Wuala users are no longer able to purchase storage or renew existing accounts.
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