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Hudson · Jul 30, 2002, 05:43 PM

Obviously, the public is voicing a fairly consistent message on .Mac offering and pricing. What are your predictions on whether Apple will revise the structure and pricing before people have to make a decision on staying with a .Mac e-mail address? Thanks.

[ 07-30-2002, 05:44 PM: Message edited by: Hudson ]

sbjordal · Jul 30, 2002, 05:56 PM

seeing as I paid for it, I just have a feeling that Apple will reverse everything, give away .mac for free, and refuse to reimburse the people that paid for it. That would simply be my luck.

AKcrab · Jul 30, 2002, 10:45 PM

What is .Mac?

C-Eye · Jul 31, 2002, 04:43 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />What is .Mac?<hr /></blockquote>AKcrab - Formerly iTools or pony up the dough for your email and iDisk or lose it... plus you get some extra crap you probably don't need.

<a href="http://www.mac.com" target="_blank">http://www.mac.com</a>

I seriously doubt Apple will change their tune for .Mac pricing. If anything they might offer free, or a cheaper @mac.com email address. I think they should at least forward our iTools email to the address of our choice. That would be the right thing to do IMO, but, unfortunately, I no longer expect Apple to do the right thing.

Hey, it's my 100th post!

turtle777 · Jul 31, 2002, 04:54 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by AKcrab:
What is .Mac?<hr /></blockquote>R U serious ?

With more than 800 posts you don't seem like an novice to me...

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" />

-t

pnp · Jul 31, 2002, 02:54 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by sbjordal:
seeing as I paid for it, I just have a feeling that Apple will reverse everything, give away .mac for free, and refuse to reimburse the people that paid for it. That would simply be my luck.<hr /></blockquote>Ironically, I'd probably pay for it if I didn't have to do so in order to keep my mac.com email address, but since they're pulling this bait and switch, screw 'em. I keep hoping they will see the error of their ways and announce free forwarding from your mac.com account, and/or $15 per year mac.com email...and I'd say there's over a 50% chance that they'll do something like that. Unfortunately, I can't wait much longer because I need to give people plenty of warning when I change my email address, and I need a while to figure out which websites I've registered for with my mac.com email, so I have to start making the change soon.

Argh, this is gonna be such a pain in the ass, I'd pay $100 to not have to do it...to anyone except the unethical slime at Apple.

Anyway, my assessment:

70% chance that you'll be able to keep your mac.com address for free, with messages forwarded elsewhere.
70% chance that you'll be able to buy a "reduced cost" .Mac account that gives you the old set of iTools functionality for under $25/year.

I think it's likely to be one or the other, not both.

However, I have no information whatsoever that I am basing this on; perhaps it's just wishful thinking.

--P

::maroma:: · Jul 31, 2002, 03:26 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by turtle777:
R U serious ?<hr /></blockquote>No, he wasn't serious.

Apple will do what it takes to make .mac successful. That is my prediction.

IonCable · Jul 31, 2002, 06:10 PM

They won't reverse it. At best I would bet a 5 Meg email for $20-30 a year. They might also do promos with a year of .Mac with purchase of a new system or something. But the free Web-Services are going bye-bye. Hotmail is now 2M for the free service. I mean 2M that's what a couple of HTML emails and a photo or 2. Hotmail also deletes anything over 1 month automatically. (not sure about the delele thing but that's what I have heard.) I wish Apple would just add some more to it, like streaming Mpeg4 HeadlineNews, free popular Mp3s, a really nice Apple homepage portal like Excite was or something.