“Only two things are infinite, Einstein said, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

Now, the theory is no longer correct for sure. Yahoo Mail is giving their users infinite storage space. Well, that’s what they are promising at least. But could someone really commit to that amount of storage? Or is it just a marketing strategy to hit Gmail where it hurts? As I expected, Yahoo have reported that they based their infinite storage grant on their analysis of existing users, and how most of them are still below the 1 GB storage limit. In practice, Yahoo are not expecting perhaps even 30% of their users to reach the 1 GB storage, and even more, not all users will be enjoying this infinite storage privilege anyways. China and Japan will all be excluded from this feature as well. The statement does not give details about what are the conditions that makes a person eligible for the infinite storage. Perhaps they will only give it to people who are not utilizing the 1 GB after all. Who knows! Without any restriction, imagine what a handful of people could do with the Yahoo Mail in one day. This could lead to the largest Yahoo Mail black out in history, and lose the faith of their customers for good. Just like what happened to Google when Google Reader, Google Page Creator and Google Analytics all went down in one day.

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