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I don't want a $99 .mac package: just mac.com mail!
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 07:48 AM
Send them feedback here:
http://www.apple.com...ack/mac/pm.html
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 07:59 AM
I will, in my opinion it's fair to charge money for the .mac service. Just: it seems unfair to sell only the complete package.
It's like M$ Office some years ago: I wanted to buy just Word... I had one option back then: the whole Office package!!!
I wish they would offer mac.com mail alone for lets say $15 a year.
And then: will the complete .mac package also work elegantly with a standard 56k dial in modem????? I mean I'm connected by a cable modem, but a lot of people are not....
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 09:17 AM
This whole 99 or 49 bucks is bs. This is one of the supidest moves they could make. I love my itools account, now they want me to pay for a bunch of stuff i don't even want or need, like a 100mb iDisk or virus protection. Ugh. We want our free priveleges back!!
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 10:00 AM
Hmmm ... "free privileges" sounds like an oxymoron. Free = no cost; privilege = entitlted to. There are very few things outside of those guaranteed (in the US, at least) by the Constitution - free speech, free religion, etc -- which are both free and privileges. Free POP email accounts, unfortunately, were not included in the Constitution.
It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out over the next few months ...
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 10:14 AM
I found out this new by logging on apple's website today.
can't beleive that they need to charge for this type of services.
why don't they put some advertisements on itools or .mac to cover their costs instead.
i really love my .mac account because I can get the email names that I want. now they bundle with a lof of unused stuffs or stuffs that we already have. what's the points?
most of the free web-based account're filled up with a lot of names already.
don't want to pay, but will they change their policies ?!
.mac > .maD
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 10:20 AM
For $49 bucks, I'll sign up. Virus protection, a hefty backup space, my e-mail and all the other iTools, I actually use every one of them as it is. I understand Apple is struggling along with every other computer brand in a sluggish economy, and has to look for revenue streams wherever it can. Its products are first rate, I use them, I have no problem paying for them.
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 10:40 AM
I hope they make the going price for .mac for all users $49/year. It just seems much more reasonable to me for that price. I'm definitely signing up for the first year, but like griff, I'm going to have to think about whether I want to renew it next year.
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 10:45 AM
Advertising won't cover it. Saying "get an advertiser to cover costs" is closing one's eyes to the nature of how things are working on the Net these days.
They are working how businesses have worked for many many years now: you pay for service. I would not be surprised if more and more services went pay. Advertising is just not (yet) a paying proposition.
It's funny to me how on the same set of forums (I'll give the benefit of the doubt that it's not the same posters) you can have such anger at paying for services and at the same time such excitement over something like Mozilla blocking out advertisements. (shakes head).
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 10:49 AM
Just another thought:
I think the .mac facilities are great for professional users, but for the average home user just an email account (5 MB) and a small homepage (15 MB) will do! I think $10 to $20 a year should cover that...
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 11:04 PM
I'm not going to pay for it until Apple decides to make Homepage a real web hosting service with support for cgi scripts, sendmail, and custom domain names. This has been the reason I have yet to use homepage. I have always felt that it was a sad exuse for a web hosting service. But since it was free, I couldn't complain too much. But if they want to charge for it, they have to get serious and do it right. I said as much in a feedback message. I sure hope they listen since I really don't want to give up my mac.com e-mail address (that's the only thing I've used too images/icons/smile.gif ).
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Posted 17 July 2002 - 11:10 PM
I don't have a problem paying something for iTools / .Mac account. I use the homepage, mail, iDisk, etc. However, $49 or $99 is just too expensive for these types of services and average users. If .Mac was an ISP maybe... But most ISPs come with these kinds of services with half of the price, AOL, Bellsouth, AT&T, MSN and DSL providers...
Now we have to pay for the ISP and on top of that to Apple just to have an e-mail with Apple? I know with the slow economy companies are looking into anything that they can generate revenue from (I know that's what my company did). I just don't want this to blow up into Apple's face!
Perhaps they should come up with options:
10 MB storage free
50 MB storage $10
100MB storage $20
or something along the above lines...
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