What's stopping them from making it large? Storage must not be any issue for Google, ofcourse. What point I am missing ?
Ask HN: Why there is an attachment limit of 25mb on gmail?
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Re: Ask HN: Why there is an attachment limit of 25mb on gmail?
#2Probably so that people continue using it as email and not as a file transferring service ?
Re: Ask HN: Why there is an attachment limit of 25mb on gmail?
#3Gmail is free. Storage costs money to maintain. 25mb limit per email + 7.5gig free 'storage' ain't bad.
Re: Ask HN: Why there is an attachment limit of 25mb on gmail?
#4SMTP is pretty inefficient, especially with binary files, so a 25MB file could be quite a bit bigger during transmission. Add to that being able to send to many email addresses and GMail could end up sending out e.g. 1GB for a single mail, even though the stored value is 25MB.
Frankly, I'd be a bit irritated if people started sending me 100MB files via email. Put it up on a server and let people download it.