Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
17:48 - Oh goodie. $100/year for .Mac...
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/mwny02dotmac.html
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According to Think Secret, the new .Mac service suite will cost subscribers $100 per year.
How Microsoftian can they get?
Although, granted, it is nice and up-front; they're not hiding any costs anywhere, they're not tying it to anything that's essential to computing, and somehow I very much doubt they'll be embedding WinXP-style "Sign up for .Mac!" ads into the Finder.
But still...
Over the course of the past week, we've been hearing concern and negative comments from some Apple employees. A number of employees feel that the move will be a big mistake, and doubt that .Mac will attract as many subscribers as Apple is expecting.
"Uh, this isn't what I came to Apple to do..."
Ideals have to take a hit for the team, occasionally, I guess is the moral of this story.
Ah well. At least this is out of the way, so I don't have to have it cloud the keynote tomorrow.
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