Hi,
in the time of the New Economy bubble, we got acccostumed to
have free internet services.
You must think that it cost money to have the servers, the
communications equipment and pay the people that keeps them working.
You cannot expect that things works forever, based on ever raising
shares an advertising feeds.
Said that, I think that most .Mac services are useless, unless that
you have a wide-band access and a flat rate.
For people hanging on Dial-Up lines and paying per minute of
connection, the only interesting service is the e-mail and usually
you get an e-mail account from your ISP.
Every person must think about and decide if .Mac is worth the $99 for him.
What I simple find a shame is that you will not get any rebate for
upgrading from 10.1 to 10.2
If Apple is serious about attracting the UNIX users to the Mac, they
can't sell every upgrade, even a major upgrade, for the full price.
Altough I consider almost all the new features in jaguar simple toys,
I would pay up to about $69 for the upgrade. That's only because it
is supposed that the Finder now works decently.
I still miss one very important feature, a Back-Up utility in the
installtion CD that you can use to make a multivolume backup of your
system disk, to restore it in the event of a crash.
Rgds, Fernando
PD I have been using Macs since 1988, started with an SE
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