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

From: Larrie Easterly (larrie_at_larrie.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 12:27:20 EDT


How very true.

Larrie Easterly

> From: SlashDevNull <slashdevnull_at_mac.com>
> Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:34:26 -0400
> To: Newton <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
> Subject: [NTLK] Geez people, freaking get over it
>
>
> Salutations,
>
> If you have a problem with .Mac costs, then don't pay. It is that simple.
>
> You had to tell everyone when you got a Mac email address. So you have to
> tell everyone when again.
>
> Some of you act like Apple is some type of drug dealer or is intentionally
> out to screw their users for as much money as possible.
>
> Basic facts are:
>
> 1) Newton was losing too much money and had _no_ chance of being
> profitable in the near future. Apple couldn't afford to keep pumping money
> into it.
>
> 2) Email services _do_ cost money. Sure, email messages are small but so
> is a paper cut. Now take hundreds of millions (2.2 million users * hundreds
> of email messages a day) of paper cuts and tell me how it feels.
>
> 3) If you haven't noticed, many companies are coming to the Mac. Many
> more are dropping the Mac. So Apple is creating the applications that will
> bring people to the Mac. This costs money.
>
> 4) OS X is perfectly useable and quick. I have a G4 400 running 10.1.5
> and I am _very_ pleased with the performance. I am upgrading the video card
> for Quartz extreme to a GeForce4 MX 400 with 64megs. It will cost me $44
> including shipping.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 8) For some reason, I just have the feeling that Apple is making very
> little profit, if any at all, from each .Mac subscription.
>
> Apple is spending _tons_ of cash to make the Mac a better product.
>
> If you don't want to pay the cash to Apple, go run XP. And we'll know.
> When you crappy email program spews virus loaded email to everyone you know,
> we will all laugh at you.
>
> Apple is the Mercedes of computing. It will cost more.
>
> I have subscribed.
>
> And it is worth every penny.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
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