Re: [NTLK] Geez people, freaking get over it

From: Stephen Jendraszak (stevehj_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 02:28:31 EDT


On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 12:34 AM, SlashDevNull wrote:
> You had to tell everyone when you got a Mac email address. So you
> have to
> tell everyone when again.
Good luck finding every person you have given the address to, and every
piece of work you have attached it to, and making the necessary
corrections.

> Some of you act like Apple is some type of drug dealer <snip>
Well, this is exactly how drug dealers do business... get you hooked,
then up the price.

> 5) .Mac will now cost money. ITools used to be free but now it costs
> money. Sure it would be nice to stay free, but if you haven't noticed
> almost all free services have dropped by the wayside. Apple is also
> adding
> more services to .Mac.
And when I bought OS 9, the main selling point on the front of the box
was "now with iTools." iTools is part of Mac OS 9 and X.

> 6) Running Apple costs a fortune. Look at the crappy wintel model.
> Intel pays for R&D and gives tons for money to hardware manufacturers.
> MS
> spends tons of money for R&D (and it doesn't show) and they give tons of
> money for business using solely ms products. Apple has to fund it's own
> hardware AND software development. For all of it's products. And it
> is now
> in the applications business to raise their market share.
I can understand that Apple is in a tough financial spot. But this is
not the way to make up the difference.

> 7) Bandwidth _is_ expensive. Apple is not running everything off
> of a
> cable modem in the back. Running a server farm is expensive. Simply
> keeping the server farm cool would bankrupt most of us.
Yeah, it is expensive. But then, we were paying for it, whenever we
bought a new Mac or OS license, one of the features of which was
"iTools."

> 8) For some reason, I just have the feeling that Apple is making very
> little profit, if any at all, from each .Mac subscription.
I really like Apple, and I tend to think they are somehow "different"
from other companies... but even to, me this sounds a little naive.

sj

http://homepage.mac.com/stevehj (for now)

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