Stupid Apple

[khaosworks]

Apple is replacing it's previously free iTools service with a pay service called .Mac. For the last few years I've been happily using the free mac.com e-mail service for my POP mail needs, but there's no way in Hell I'm going to cough up US$100 a year just to use e-mail. Yes, I also get access to iDisk and the other crap, but I never use them anyway, so it's no big loss.

Thanks to autographedcat, I'm now on America.net. It's $5 a month, but still cheaper than .Mac. No change to my actual e-mail address, which is still khaos@tim.org, but the mailbox will be hosted at america.net from now on instead of at mac.com, which means khaos@america.net is a viable alternate e-mail address, but khaos@mac.com will no longer be as of today.

It was nice while it lasted.

Comments

[gingicat]

But that's where I put pictures for people to see! What were they *thinking*?

Guess I'll add more megabytes to my web account instead... I'd rather give the money to my excellent ISP.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that enough people will be crying foul for Apple to offer a free, scaled down version of the service, just free e-mail with a 6 MB box, and iDisk at 10 MB or something on those lines.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

aaack. That's where I put pictures too. And I don't /have/ an ISP. Grrrrrr.

I still like my Mac.

But I don't like Apple any more than Microsoft, at this point.