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Apple to Unveil .Mac Today

Posted by pudge on from the um-yay dept.

Steve Mason writes "Apple has put up a .Mac FAQ up here proving that .Mac will indeed be introduced at Mac World New York. .Mac will cost $100 a year as previous rumors had reported." Yes, this means that if you don't pay Apple, your mac.com URL and email address will stop working. Some have suggested that the "switch" in Apple's new ad campaign stands for the unfortunate part of a "bait and switch." Someone should mirror that URL, it might be taken down any second now.

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  1. Not a wise move... by bteeter · · Score: 0, Redundant
    • Anti-virus: $50
    • Backup: $40
    • 100MB of online storage: $60
    • 15MB of email storage, forwarding and
    • POP/IMAP access: $40+
    • Home page creation and hosting: $60

    Sure you _could_ spend that much for each item individually if you really wanted to. But hell, you can get that and a lot more for just a few bucks a month with a good web hosting company.

    You could definitely get more in the way of disk space for the same cost, and you'll be able to use your own domain name as well as things like PHP, CGI-BIN, etc that I'm sure your .Mac account won't have.

    Apple should know better than this. Taking something that was free, adding no (real) value and then charging for it is NEVER a good idea.

    Brian