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

From: hal9000x (hal9000x_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 13:32:54 EDT


I agree fully with all below.

Will
On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 12:27 PM, Larrie Easterly wrote:

>
> 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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