The Google is about to offer Gmail to anyone who wants it (or at least anyone who can get text messages). Also, they are about to upgrade storage to 3 gigabytes per user. That’s a lot of disk space. Math time!
1.2 billion net users * 3 gb per person =
3,600,000,000 gb / 500 gb per drive =
7,200,000 drives * 183.99 each =
$1,324,728,000
$1.3 billion. Now, for me and you, it would take a little while to come up with that kinda cash. But not the folks from Mountain View!
$1,324,728,000 / ($3,077,446,000 profit in 2006 / 365 days) =
157.1 days
Or, a little more than five months.
It’s possible ordering 7.2 million hard drives will kick in a quantity discount. I’ll leave it to someone else to factor that in.
Whew! I’m glad they’re upgrading to 3GBs. I’m at 1.7GB and haven’t had time to go in and clean house…shudder.
re: having to sign up using SMS…bleh! I’ve got 180 invites left if anyone wants one. heh heh ;D
1.7GB of email? Impressive. I don’t think I have that much, and I’ve got years of saved stuff…
Small World Moment: My Dave just forwarded me an email from Gainesville with a picture that someone painted of the Kool-aid Man and hung next to a wall that is atually broken. You, Dilger, are on the list of people who recieved the email in the same swoop as Dave.
Dave must have worked with Mr. Annis?