Google to Disrupt Free and Fee-based Webmail

It turns out Gmail is not a joke. Since Google's email service is going to be free (at best/worse depending on how you look at it, POP3 access will cost a "nominal fee"), this is most likely going to be highly disruptive, destroying Yahoo or MSN's ability to charge for a mere few megabytes of space. And about time too, considering the falling prices of network storage, which made these offers artificial and plain stingy in this day and age.

It's interesting to see Google base most of what they do so far on advertising and deliberately undermine their competitors' ability to charge in the process (remember Blogger discontinued its Pro paid service). I've posted additional thoughts on my personal blog.