Get a Gmail account

Everyone is pimping invites, yet no one has provided any reason WHY someone would want a GMail account over any other EMail account. :)
 
because it's one of the best interfaces I have seen for web mail, it's very fast, a gig of space, and getting in early makes sure you get the user name you want and don't have to get a username such as [email protected].
 
The following is for discussion only. If I don't want it, I'll not get it.

electron said:
because it's one of the best interfaces I have seen for web mail, it's very fast, a gig of space, and getting in early makes sure you get the user name you want and don't have to get a username such as [email protected].
I guess that I am just dumb, or slow....

<IMHO>

1. I don't know why anyone would want an email address at someone elses domain.
2. Why would ANYONE want a gig of space for email? To save spam for posterity?
3. I look at a web interface as a secondary means to access email. I normally use Outlook. That said, reading your mail can only be done in so many ways... Mail is Mail.
4. Nothing is free. There's a catch. Advertising?

</IMHO>
 
1) the target audience is the people who use hotmail , yahoo mail, msn mail, there are millions of them, people who can't figure out how to get their own domain, or pay for the hosting.

2) spam usually fills up the mail box fast, it allows people to exchange pictures without bouncing them, and of course it's also a marketing thing

3) again, geeks know how to use outlook, this is for people who want to be able to i.e. email while at work or on the road and such.

4) no catch, it's google, their interface is as clean, if not cleaner than the google search engine.
 
again, geeks know how to use outlook, this is for people who want to be able to i.e. email while at work or on the road and such.
Or for "Geeks" who want a "dumping grounds" email account, to use as a registration Email for various sites, etc...

As for the catch, there have been rumors that google will scan your gmail for relevant topics and thus send you spam (relavant spam, hehe) to you account. This has not been verified.
 
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