[Ham-Mac] Re: .mac

[David Ferrington]

When .mac was a free service and you'd just paid a large sum of money for a
Mac (in the UK), it was great. I'd just started using it when Apple decided
to charge for it.
I can't see how they could justify going from free to £68.98 ($123.11) for
that service. There are plenty of other free or cheaper services.
I use my ISP for mail address etc, with my own domain. I use Photobox and
Flickr for photos etc (very nice iPhoto plug-in for Flickr).
To be honest, I felt Apple were trying to 'cash in' on a group of people who
already used the services and didn't want to loose the effort they had put
in. I was most disillusioned.

Oh, I've been using Macs since 1985, I'm not a PC fan knocking Apple.

On 14/8/05 9:00 am, "ham-mac-request at mailman.qth.net"
<ham-mac-request at mailman.qth.net> sent:


> 
> Very good comments from Jack.  The purpose of my posting was to share the
> new (to me) free service offered at http://www.yousendit.com not to bash
> .mac or even start a discussion of the pros/cons of .mac.  I just thought
> the YouSendIt thing was kind of neat and the price is right.
> 
> The Apple .mac provides a nice service for a fee that is reasonable if you
> really use it.  If you use it, its a good deal.  If you only use it for the
> xxx at mac.com address, its a big waste of money.
> 
> 73 Dick, AA5VU
> 
> 
> On 8/13/05 3:09 PM, "Jack Brindle" <jackbrindle at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Sigh. This sounds like a good opportunity to learn a bit about web
>> development. Most ISPs give their customers storage space for web
>> pages and file storage for transfers. The solution might have been as
>> simple as copying the file to you ISP-allocated storage site, telling
>> the recipient the URL, then having him transfer the file down. Or
>> even creating a small web site (using Apple's Pages, for example),
>> for this purpose. An opportunity to learn is almost always good!
>> 
>> I also believe that there is a version of Stuffit for PCs that allows
>> you to decode stuffed files and reassemble those that have been
>> broken apart. Check out Allume's web site: http://www.stuffit.com/win/
>> index.html for the PC/Windows software.
>> 
>> As for most MacOS X users being on .mac, I seriously doubt it. This
>> was probably true back when it was free, but most of us have no need
>> (or are too cheap) to give Apple $99 of our hard-earned money for
>> this service.

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