A Nonny Moose Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 GMail is now free according to this article in Macworld Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
teehee Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Well, its always been free, save some advertisements. I think the news here is that there are open sign-ups for it. No more invites, no more cell-phone text messages :pirate2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-302806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I've had a Gmail account since even before the text-message-signup days. This is nice for new users, since the text-message seemed, IMO, a bit tedious and annoying. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-303132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 you mean there are still people on the planet that don't have GMail? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-303248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanBen Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 you mean there are still people on the planet that don't have GMail? LOL, seems like it!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-303259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 I don't think gmail should be open. It should stay invite to prevent bad accounts. People will just use this service for easy email accounts for porn sites or spamming. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-303366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 when hasnt it been free? and adblock plus firefox plugin is great, it blocks all teh adds from websites, including this one Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-303369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kahuna Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 I don't think gmail should be open. It should stay invite to prevent bad accounts. People will just use this service for easy email accounts for porn sites or spamming. yeah um, people are already doing that.. thx. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-303708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 (edited) Fail to see the news here. Its cool that after ummm 2 years they have made it "Public" but oh well. I got my account the first month it came out now I have 4 of them I guess after 2 years its not beta anymore. I liked it when the didnt have all the extra {censored}. No messenger or news ticker or any of that stuff, just freakin email. Plain and simple! Dice LOL i got this account in 9/10/04 that was when my Staff email came Current status In March 2004, Google said that Gmail would probably be released publicly after six months of testing, which would have placed their launch in September 2004, but it is still in beta as of January 2007. Speculation also regarding the release date is right after The New York Times said they had "credible sources" saying "Gmail will be released publicly by the end of the year 2005." As of present, however, one needs an invitation from an existing user or to sign up via text message using the gmail homepage (www.gmail.com) and a U.S. cellular phone that has SMS capabilities to get an account, and the site still says it is in the beta development stage. The number of invitations existing account holders can send has been varied, presumably to control the usage and growth of the system. For all intents and purposes, Gmail is open to the public now, since thousands of invites are publicly available from many websites. The use of the invitation/text message system helps prevent spammers from registering numerous accounts for purposes of spamming, and will ensure that any account used illegally will have another valid e-mail address or phone number to trace a user (the one to which the invite was sent). Edited February 15, 2007 by Dicenet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42374-gmail-now-free/#findComment-303741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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