.mac petition
hi
there is a petition which fights to keep at least the @mac.com email service for free. Probably without success but you may wanna join anyway ?
<a href="http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iTol/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iTol/petition.html</a>
Sorry if that is old news for you, I'm a slow fool I know....
fight for your right to itools....
there is a petition which fights to keep at least the @mac.com email service for free. Probably without success but you may wanna join anyway ?
<a href="http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iTol/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iTol/petition.html</a>
Sorry if that is old news for you, I'm a slow fool I know....
fight for your right to itools....
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fight for your right to itools....</strong><hr></blockquote>
Right? What right? Its Apple's hardware and software, they have a right to do whatever they please with it. They offered iTools for free when all the .coms were booming and offering free services. Its just not possible with 2 million users today, plus all the numbnuts who make 10 iTools accounts.
I think Apple should have left the basic options of iTools alone as it starts .Mac. Then, they could charge for advanced, other, or broader services. No one would be upset. It would cost them the same amount of money as it is costing to maintain the services now. Plus, they would begin gaining additional income as people join. If the Mac population is angered to black-listing this service, it will have a hard start, and it may not be able to take off at all. The Mac user base is fickle and touchy about their products. For some reason, we take it as ours. We did not make the machine. We do not design the software. We just buy and use it. However, it is personal to us, and this spirt helps propel the Mac platform. It will draw people to it, also.
I think 100.00 will be great in a year or two from now. For now, it is ridiculous, and it is taking away something which was free at 8am today (well..'till Sept 30 midnight...). If the e-mail address, alone, was left untouched by the demand for a price on the service, people may complain (they always do...), but I doubt there would be a petition and such an outrage.
There should be several choices along a few price points. It is good business. The service should increase, and they could charge at this new level. They should not be making an underlying demand to their user-base. We have no other choice--pay or lose it. I do not use it enough to justify paying, and therefore if things remain the same, I will lose hours of work on pages, have to change my address over many web pages (where I am a member or receive aa news letter), and spend some effort backing up this data before it is gone. I have 75 days. It is plenty of time, and Apple has a right to make this choice. But I think it is a poor choice overall. We would be more likely to focus on the possible benifits if we did not feel cheated by it. I am not saying we are cheated by it. it was a nice gift to be free for so long. however, I do understand the outrage, and I cannot say I am happy with Apple's choice at all.
it's ridiculous. they should at least allow multiple e-mail accounts or have a family plan.
<strong>here's the problem. family computer... three people using it. me, my brother, and my mother. we all use mac.com e-mail and iTools. now we have to pay 300 bucks to keep our e-maila addresses. well actually 150 but you get the point.
it's ridiculous. they should at least allow multiple e-mail accounts or have a family plan.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I thought it was only 10 bucks extra a year for each additional email address. So you'd really only be paying 120 a year, well 70 this year.
<strong>Did Jobs actually say it would be free for life?</strong><hr></blockquote>
He could just say it refers to the free 60 day trial. If you notice, there are many products out there that have a "free software included!" (like free AOL, free norton antivirus) and you buy it just to find out it is really a 30 or 60 day trial software. The practice isn't new.
<strong>here's the problem. family computer... three people using it. me, my brother, and my mother. we all use mac.com e-mail and iTools. now we have to pay 300 bucks to keep our e-maila addresses. well actually 150 but you get the point.
it's ridiculous. they should at least allow multiple e-mail accounts or have a family plan.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Some kinda family plan's a good idea.
$100/year is overpriced, especially when you can get email + unlimited dial up internet for about twice as much. Sure, there's stuff other than email, but who'll really use it? They just added that to justify the high cost.
Not a legally binding thing, of course, but it would show bad faith for him to go back on that, using it to attract users knowing all the while that he was going to take it away.
Donny: do you remember when and where he said this?
Apple is a business and it exists to make money. Offering a free service like iTools costs a great deal of money. All of the Internet oriented companies have realized this, and that's why the age of the free Internet service is gone. If it can't at least pay for itself it is going to go away.
If you don't think it should cost what it does (or that it should do more than it does), then don't pay and get the service somewhere else. Money speaks louder than some dumb petition.
When you bought your Mac, you bought a Mac. Nowhere in the purchase agreement did it say anything about free iTools being guaranteed indefinitely, and if you thought that was implied then I will quote Robert A. Heinlen for you: TANSTAAFL.
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
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