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.Mac will cost you money
cocoamix:
As long as Apple doesn't roll out their own version of Palladium, it's fine by me.
TheQuirk:
and that reminds me of the fact that i need to buy ihate.net! Friday is the day to make .net hate images and pointless content (and of course buy the domain) that will take over my sad, sad life!
ravuya:
Gentlemen, I think the price is honestly worth it. Think of what Apple used to charge for big, expensive accounts. That's a lot more. They also hand out a free copy of Virex (granted, we have like 8 viruses on the Mac, but still... great program).
I'm sure this is like the Apple Developer club, where you pay x hundreds of dollars and you get to be ferried around to developer clubs, wined and dined with free software, and lots of other crap.
I don't think this is a misstep per se, I just think they're announcing it before they drop the killer app that will require the .Mac service (iChat?)
psyjax:
Not worth it.
If apple goes thrugh with this, they just dicked over a bunch of users. The coolest thing about iTools and iDisk was that it was free and came with every mac. Shit, that was a good reason for getting a Mac, if they are charging for it it's no better than .Net.
I gotta agree with Zombie on that one.
Zombie9920:
Apple must be in a pretty bad slump to start charging Apple loyalist for services that used to be free. I see that MS is going to charge for MSN Explorer 8 unless you are a MSN ISP user, but hell that is just a browser. It isn't like there aren't free alternatives out there. What free alternative services do iDisk users have? Charging a one time fee for software isn't so bad(but is silly considering browsers are free) but charging a fee for a service that you paid for when you bought your system is ludicris(Voidmain..did you notice that MSN 8 is just a piece of software...not a service).
iTools and iDisk are both services that Mac users deserve to have for free upon purchasing a Mac. There are alot of people out there who have websites and alot of files stored on thier iDisk account and they will lose all of thier shit(stored on the account) if they don't pay. That isn't right if you ask me.
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
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