.Mac Petition

[spitty27]

Spread it to your Mac friends, we are not Microsoft customers! We notice when you pass on an upgrade, don't expect us to pay for it...

.Mac is good but at its current price point it is a RIPOFF

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iTol/petition.html


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To:_ Apple Computer, Mr. Steve Jobs

We, the undersigned, are signing to make sure that our voices be heard against Apple's proposed "upgrades" to the .mac service (formally known as iTools).
The services for which Apple is charging are highly overpriced and not worth it.

Virus Protection is almost unnecessary on the Mac, and McAffe is much inferior and more expensive then other Virus protection ((such as VirusBarrier from Intego software))

The Other services are not much better either, Tech Support for iTools is unnecessary as it seems that it works well, most of us Mac users don't need back up software, we can do it all through backuping our home folder (/~/) minus the library,

Our significant worry is the loss of our email address. Most of us have embraced what we feel to be the best email service around in iTools (.mac) and have distrubuted our email addresses around, we feel that by making us pay for these services .Mac is no longer useful at its price point.

What We Want: We want the price to be lowered overall for all subscribers, perhaps by 50% or more (($25 for previous iTools subscribers, $50 for brand new customers)), it should come free with every Mac purchased. We also want you to continue to make the .Mac email free. At least for those of us who already have a iTools email addresses.

Why do we want this: Because we love the Mac and see the potential in the .Mac services.

And as we were once told..."It will be free for life"

To quote a user's response after hearing the new price point for .Mac
"Hello. I'm a happy Apple customer but this latest .Mac service has me disappointed. You're charging money for email when yahoo.com email is still free, hotmail.com is still free, and others. We, Mac users, were told this would be free for life. This is an outrage."

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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[twister]

I'm not concerned about the overall price. I just want the email. I don't need anything else .mac has to offer.

Twister

[DualG4X]

only 151 sig so far, thats lame, come on people sign the dam thing

[spitty27]

its only been 1.2 hours u cant blame it...well get there dont worry we'll make news

[simX]

I agree. I have no complaints with the overall price, and I actually intend to buy at least the first year. But I think Apple should keep e-mail free (at least a 5 MB account).

By the way, it would've been nice if we could make comments on the signatures. And it would've been nice to have made the wording of the petition a little better.

I signed it anyway, but it could've been better.

[d8n_two]

No offense, but whoever wrote it probably should have done some better proofreading. There are a few spelling and grammatical errors. It may not seem like a big deal, but little things like that make the difference on whether or not something is taken seriously. Believe me, I've worked in marketing and PR, and quality spelling and grammar in the copy is a must.

d8n_two

[spitty27]

i didnt write it im just spreading it so we can get enough signatures...aiming for a thousand

[xoot]

I signed it. 211 signatures total.