Monday, April 02, 2007
e-mail on paper - What difference would it make?
While logging into gmail today I noticed the announcement of Gmail going onto paper to support those hard-core handwritten letter champions.See more about it on http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html.I really didnot understand the idea behing this.I respect Google for its ever creative internet services it provides to its mammoth sized,ever increasing user pool.But this particular product that they have come up with doesnot make sense to me.After all if I need a paper copy of my e-mail wouldn't I send one myself.The only advantage that I might have with Gmail Papar is that I get this copy free of cost(if I don't mind advertisements on my letter pad that is) , but then how much legal credibility can I claim to this....anyways I hope to get more points of view on this, provided you care to express it here in the comments.
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1. They will have ads on the back of the mails, which means the ad companies are paying the cost of the paper.
Mails on Paper costs google = x Rs
Google will charge companies = x + y Rs for adspace (y is their profit)
Companies increase their product price by y Rs
Consumer will pay y Rs from his pocket.
Essentially one is paying y Rs to get his mails printed.
clever marketing by the goog folks.
The analysis on top look good....bu ti really dont get how they plan to print photos...I dont think its worth the deal for google or any of those advertisers.
But then here is an interesting twist to the story:
http://www.geektronica.com/2007-04-01-gmail-paper-april-fools
and there are more such.....this one is simply ridiculous !
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
Yeah Ravi you got it right,but its jus that x chooses to print his g-mail but y(the actual buyer of the product) pays for x ...
The logic is very simple
You buy a newspaper for 1.50 Rs which has about 30 printed papers and of which some have the glossy look and some are colored prints.
When you get it for 1.50 Rs why isnt this possible
Well, really interesting offer!!!
But what I think about this is, Its just one more strategic step in the direction of the google's goal. The Idea behind this is just to confirm the actual address of people so that they store into thier database. Google's Vision : To collect all the information of all the people in this World. So one can think of if some website or company has the authentic, confirmed information of 1 million or may be billions of the address of people, what they can do with this... Down the line after 10 years or so I think google will achieve its GOAL or atleast very close to it.
Well! It's April fool!! It was!
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