NO .Mac services for free (official)
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Chibi15
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serpicolugnut
OS X Supreme Being
Look, I'm all for Apple finding new and innovative ways to make money, but this is just wrong.
I can understand killing the iDisk storage and making it a pay service - but the email service too? This is going to create a wave of bad blood for users of the .mac email domain, who were told at MacWorld 2000 in San Francisco that this email address would be free - period. Now to reneg on that is just wrong.
I had just finished letting everybody know that I would be using my .mac email address as my main one. Now it looks like I'll have to find another.
I can understand killing the iDisk storage and making it a pay service - but the email service too? This is going to create a wave of bad blood for users of the .mac email domain, who were told at MacWorld 2000 in San Francisco that this email address would be free - period. Now to reneg on that is just wrong.
I had just finished letting everybody know that I would be using my .mac email address as my main one. Now it looks like I'll have to find another.
serpicolugnut
OS X Supreme Being
No way. But I do have an acct with exicte.com that is free that I will probably go back to using.
As I said, I'm all for Apple making money, and after reading over the .Mac manifesto, it looks like they are offering quite a bit for $99.95. But Apple made a promise at MWSF 2000 that .mac email addresses would be "Free for life" as Steve Jobs said. I was there. To change the rules is just wrong.
Apple should have at least left a basic 2MB email account for those who can't afford the upgrade, and currently are .mac email users.
As I said, I'm all for Apple making money, and after reading over the .Mac manifesto, it looks like they are offering quite a bit for $99.95. But Apple made a promise at MWSF 2000 that .mac email addresses would be "Free for life" as Steve Jobs said. I was there. To change the rules is just wrong.
Apple should have at least left a basic 2MB email account for those who can't afford the upgrade, and currently are .mac email users.
googolplex
jeff.hume.ca
googolplex
jeff.hume.ca
Damn, somebody at apple is quick. They are shutting all these pages down. It was a page with all the features of .Mac... It also had the new apple site design on it....
ddma
The Most Stupid Member
I still have some cache of the new .Mac homepage...
http://www.koobi.biz/guest/dotMac/mac_newfeatures.html
http://www.koobi.biz/guest/dotMac/mac_newfeatures.html
Chrissyboy
Registered
Thanks for the link ddma.
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twyg
Back to Mac Baby!
What really gets my goat is that I can't get to my mac.com address right now, and I'm waiting for a response on a job I've been trying to get. It's an extremely important job to me, and now not getting there is unbelievable.
If it's true that you'll need to pay by september than fine, but if they just cut service out today I'll be writing letters to more than a few people. You cannot with any sort of conscience possibly just cut a service out like that.
If Apple causes me to lose this job opportunity I'll be even more furious.
Apple, iDisk makes sense, mac.com addresses do not. How 'bout giving 2MB free, and 5MB for paid members? That's what hotmail does.
Looks like I'll be switching back over to hotmail again... :|
If it's true that you'll need to pay by september than fine, but if they just cut service out today I'll be writing letters to more than a few people. You cannot with any sort of conscience possibly just cut a service out like that.
If Apple causes me to lose this job opportunity I'll be even more furious.
Apple, iDisk makes sense, mac.com addresses do not. How 'bout giving 2MB free, and 5MB for paid members? That's what hotmail does.
Looks like I'll be switching back over to hotmail again... :|