Googleplexity
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.
February 8th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
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
February 9th, 2007 at 10:35 am
1.7GB of email? Impressive. I don’t think I have that much, and I’ve got years of saved stuff…
February 12th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
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.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Dave must have worked with Mr. Annis?