Re: .Mac & .Net
Originally posted by 3777
Are one in the same[/I]
I missed the [Sarcasm][/Sarcasm] tags around that post.
Now that I semi-agree with. But this new offer does sweeten the pot to go to .mac, no matter what you think.
P.S. I can take 100 pics with my digital camera and load them in my computer in seconds..... so why do I need iKodak's iPrints?
Quality. They're printed on actual photo paper, by a photo lab. And unless you spend a fair amount of time tweaking your ColorSync settings and calibrating your monitor, Photoshop (not Photoshop Elements, the real thing) and your ink jet printer, what you get back from the lab will be better than what you print out at home.
And paying for ie-mail accounts? You can get 1000 e-mail accounts anywhere for free? I just don't understand the .Mac or .net business models, though they seem to be aimed at the computer illiterate.
Semi-true. I've had a Yahoo! mail account for years which I've used thru thick and thin, it's been reliable, protects me from spam fairly well, and convienent. It always has splash ads on every single page and popups galore, something iTools never did. And sure, I can host at geocities or wherever, if I don't mind banner ads and popups galore.
The ease of use for changing content in an iDisk is simply unmatched. Sure, I can FTP up files to my host and set up directories and blahblahblah if I want to.
But some times, I don't want to. And that's where an iDisk came in.
Now, with all this being said, I'm still not upgrading from my old iTools account. At $50/100 a year, it ain't worth it to me. I have my own site, I have enough disk space on it. But there are new users/non-techies who bought an Apple because they didn't want to worry about it. And that's who .mac is for.