a gig of space but is hardly an insurmountable advantage, if it costs google $10 a year to provide that storage then whats to stop yahoo adding a gig of space (apart from institutional and investor resistance).
The reason that google will eat yahoo’s lunch is because it has looked at how people use email and has built a web based email client that uses the powerful functionality that you can get in modern browsers. The way it threads discussions or conversations as it calls them, the elegant spell check, the auto complete, the keyboard shortcuts, I mean this browser based email client is as full featured as my desktop client and in some ways even better than that. If google takes that design discipline to its other products, it will trounce yahoo in the life engine category in the end.
It’s amazing to me that Yahoo went from agile upstart to a potentially vulnerable corporation unable to revamp its products fast enough. i’ve been using yahoo mail for 4 years and it hasn’t changed to take advantage of the opportunities new browsers present. Yahoo is like the American car industry in the 70’s with investments in old technology getting blindsided by the Japanese car industry that had been forced to re-tool due to getting wiped out in WWII.
0 Responses to “google will eat yahoo’s lunch”
Leave a Reply