In 2004, Google’s announcement was quite airplane, as nothing similar was yet available elsewhere.
For example, when Gmail was released, Google wrote that millions of M&M’s chocolate creams had been spent on developing the service. Beata Zawrzel/Nurphoto/Shutterstock
Google’s Email Service Gmail nowadays has silent and crushing user figures. The service has 2.5 billion regular users and has been charged more than 10 billion times for Android.
However, at the time of the release of Gmail, it was treated quite skeptical. The reason was simple: it sounded too good to be true.
Another factor that deteriorates credibility was the date Google chose to publish Gmail. It was introduced to the public on 1 April 2004, April Day.
The third reason was that Google clearly removed in a news release, so it was difficult to take it seriously. Company, for example wrotethat millions of m had passed during the development of Gmail& M’S chocolate.
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Nowadays it may sound a bit strange if Gmailin says it is “too good to be true”. For this, it is worth considering what kind of jama the world of emails was at the time of Gmail’s release.
In 2004, the kings of e -mail services were Yahoo, Aol (America Online) and Hotmail around the world. The hatch also enjoyed the popularity in Finland.
However, the problem with email services was that they did not include terribly space. So the received emails had to be constantly cleaned up.
Also, the emails did not arrange in any way unless the user himself arranged them in the folders they wanted.
In Gmail, on the other hand, the user’s emails were neatly organized into discussion threads. In addition, the service had a revolutionary one gigabyte storage space for its emails. This was over a hundred times more than in typical email services.
So it’s no wonder that Google’s announcement was not initially believed.
However, by Gmail, Google took quite a bit of risk. Neowin saysthat a company’s leader did not think Gmail would ever reach even a million users.
What would also be made by Microsoft’s answer to Gmail, programmed in the JavaScript programming language. For example, Microsoft could have changed the operation of its dominant Internet Explorer browser and thus prevent Gmail from working properly.
However, the fears proved to be unfounded. On the contrary, Microsoft improved Internet Explorer so that Gmail worked better.