QUICK! Save iTools!!! (here's how)

[ropers]

At
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/specs.html
you will find that Apple STILL ADVERTISES iTools AS A FEATURE of their products!

As per the attached screenshot (84KB), Apple says on the Mac OS X (10.2) Jaguar specification page:
"Use integrated iTools services including a Mac.com email address, iDisk storage space and more"


We need as many people as possible to do the following:

- go to the above weblink and make a screenshot and download the above website ASAP!

- purchase Jaguar
(and/or make sure you have previously purchased an Apple product where iTools has been advertised as a feature thereof; e.g. I own an iBook and on the box and in the user's guide iTools is advertised as a feature and even described as free [a time limitation to its availability is not mentioned])

- contact and/or sue Apple to effect them to deliver what they did and still are advertising!!!

Please contact me at ropers@ropersonline.com to dicuss - a class-action lawsuit may be feasible.

While I understand that there are people out there who are hesitant of "moving against their favorite company", let's remember that that company sometimes needed to be prodded into the right direction.

AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS ILLEGAL!
AND YOU CAN HELP PROVING IT!!!

Please help the Macintosh community by doing the above.

Thanks all,
Jens Ropers
www.ropersonline.com

P.S:
I still think the macosx email is a great offer - and this post is not intended to discourage people from availing of it.

P.P.S:
Personally I wouldn't even complain about having to pay for webhosting on .Mac, but seing the little man's mac.com email address pulled when it was (and still is) being promised as a feature of products bought - that would hurt me. If they were to allow everyone to pay $10 for a 5MB account (i.e. simply drop the silly requirement that such accounts can only be bought as (up to 10) additional accounts for a full .Mac subscription) I would probably grumble a bit but still say that that's fair enough. But again, what they are doing now is MISLEADING ADVERTISING and needs to be discouraged!!!

[ropers]

Originally posted by ropers
At
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/specs.html
you will find that Apple STILL ADVERTISES iTools AS A FEATURE of their products!

As per the attached screenshot (84KB), Apple says on the Mac OS X (10.2) Jaguar specification page:
"Use integrated iTools services including a Mac.com email address, iDisk storage space and more"

That is until and unless they pull and/or change that site, so act now please!

[themacko]

gimme a freaking break... sorry buddy, this is just completely pointless.

[J5]

Roper -
Good call -- but it seems they might have caught on already.. hope you got better screen shots than I did.

At the very bottom of the page, there is a line:
"iTools and other Internet features require Internet access; fees may apply. "

Argh.

J5

Just some thoughts -- if the folks here at macosx are into it - I think a cool idea would be to make our own .macosx or something.. Anyone using the dyndns.org free domain pointing? Just thinking out loud.. but this would be a cool feature I think to have a domain "j5.macosx.com" that pointed to my home machine - which runs all the server software I can throw at it. Similar to what I have setup right now at:
http://psychlonex.dyndns.org

The idea is that we'd all be on the same domain.. folks could put up some shared servers, and we'd effectively create a huge domain of macs. This wouldn't cost macosx.com alot at all as far as bandwidth... the bandwidth used would be ours and that of our isps. Also.. being a web developer.. I love the convenience of "cmd-s" as my web publishing solution.

Feel free to email me if you want to discuss. I'd definitely be interested in helping out if help is needed.

J5

[ddma]

Well, but Apple has also announced that they are discontinued the iTools service and replaced by .Mac...

[fryke]

i just don't get the iWhiners. what was the point... to sue Apple?

reflect a bit, please. even if somewhere in some documentation iTools are still advertised as 'included' with OS X, it's very much CLEAR by now that iTools has been replaced with .mac, isn't it?

i sometimes think people who sue somebody (or a company) over an issue like that should be shot at the spot where they raise their hands and start to scream.

"You said it was fr.." - Peng.

-- Edit:

After rereading what I've written here - and thinking it might have been a _bit_ harsh, I think I must say clearly that I would never really think like that. It's just a thought that comes to mind. You can translate my whole post into a very short "Please shut up, already!" if you feel violated by the language and ideas I've used.

[j79]

I have some old Archies comic books my dad saved.

Can I contact the companies advertising in there, and demand the prices they printed?

Maybe I'll gather up all the old Archie comics owners, and we can start up a class action lawsuit against those companies! How dare they print something and then change their policies! SHAME ON THEM!

[j79]

Originally posted by fryke
i just don't get the iWhiners. what was the point... to sue Apple?

reflect a bit, please. even if somewhere in some documentation iTools are still advertised as 'included' with OS X, it's very much CLEAR by now that iTools has been replaced with .mac, isn't it?

i sometimes think people who sue somebody (or a company) over an issue like that should be shot at the spot where they raise their hands and start to scream.

"You said it was fr.." - Peng.

i agree fryke..

okay, well, maybe not about the shooting
but, its such a shame how everyone in this country sues over the stupidest things...

"ooh, my coffee is too hot.. i'm going to sue you!"
"ooh, i got fat for eating at your fast food restaurant... i'm going to sue you!"
"ooh, apple.. your actually trying to make money and be profitable like other companies.. i'm going to sue you!"