I literally just wrote in my last post about Google’s storage space (or ’storage cloud’ if you will), questioning what on Earth they are planning on doing with it all if they have yet to release an unlimited email service while some of their rivals – with less space and more accounts to feed – have. Well, Epicenter on the Wired Blog network might have my answer.

They just published a piece making a case for why we could be see a big Google-Apple partnership announcement at WWDC. The theory goes that this partnership would revolve around Google providing the storage and Apple providing the .Mac service to create what could be the ultimate cloud computing situation.

.Mac is a joke at this point, everyone including Steve Jobs knows that. You know that when he emphatically says in response to a question about improving it, “stay tuned” – something big is coming. $100 a year for 1GB of storage in this day and age? Xdrive gives you 5GB of storage for free! Jobs needs to make a big splash to keep .Mac in business. Google meanwhile needs to make a big splash to show they aren’t falling behind their ‘unlimited’ rivals.

Imagine a .Mac service that charged you the same $100 a year – but you received unlimited storage (compliments of Google) in return. I would sign up for such a service in a heartbeat. In less than a heartbeat.