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Interesting and I'm not surprised............... Monday, September 30, had been the deadline for free iTools account holders to switch to .Mac for half-price ($49.95) the first year, but not any more. According to CNET News.com, Apple has extended the deadline to October 14, 2002. After that it will be $99 per year for everyone. While Apple referred to the 100,000 + signups earlier this month as a "phenomenal success," the roughly 5 percent retention rate surely stood in need of boosting and the extended deadline should urge a few more current account holders over the line. Comments: We signed up the other night. Nothing has changed except that we're out 50 bucks. All we ever used before was the email address, but maybe now we'll try the other goodies. The 100MB of online storage sounds good, and $49.95 divided by 12 makes for awfully cheap hosting fees for any Web pages we choose to put up. That's about the size of it from our point of view, but we're not complaining. A lot of people have expended at least 50 bucks worth of energy raising arguments we happen to agree with, but in the end we wanted to keep the email address, being in the business and all, and changing various subscriptions and accounts tied to our <mac.com> address was just too much of a hassle. The big guys win this time. Hopefully they'll keep loading on the services and make us true believers. Demetrius -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
