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Steve Jobs Confirms Discontinuation of iWeb in iCloud Transition

Does this mean the software iWeb is about to be discontinued, or just the silly hosting service?
 
Well, that guy emailed Jobs to complain about the possible discontinuation of a service that he says sucks. Jobs was well within his rights to do that. If you don't want a short and terse response, then don't email Steve.
 
If iWeb is disappearing here is hoping that RapidWeaver or some other alternative hosts a sale soon to pick up that customer base.

I know I will be looking for a replacement. I have been holding off moving to a different package hoping they would update iWeb but now there is no point in me holding off anymore.
 
What a load of ****ing ********!!! I have about had it with S. Jobs and his little tude lately. I know didly **** about building a website and my small auto business has a nice page now thanks to the ease of iWeb and the hosting which I pay for. Now I am screwed...thanks Jobs for continuing to be a douche.
 
A shame - I really enjoyed using the software's ease of publishing and updating into my MobileMe space. Wonder if anyone else will step in a pick this up.
 
BLACKFRIDAY said:
I don't understand how. Is he supposed to reply in proper english:

Yes, you would need to find an alternative website builder and someone to host your sites.

?

I don't think so.
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It's not a matter of proper English, it's called having a little compassion for your customers.
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone Dark: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8H7)

What was the problem with iWeb?
 
carboncow said:
Considering the guy who asked the question asked it in a dickish manor, the reply was fine. Nobody said he cannot continue to use the crappy iWeb with another $3 a month hosting service.
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Steve Jobs himself put down MobileMe in his keynote at WWDC which implicitly made it fair game. I doubt he was offended by the questioner's "derogatory" mention of MobileMe.
 
Why to put serious work on iWeb? If that guy worked a lot on the site, better to get a normal hosting...
 
koobcamuk said:
When a fan emails you to ask something like this, such a terse reply won't be agreeable for most people.
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Trying to remember the last time a CEO got fired because he actually answered a customer's e-mail...

If you want your hand held, they have an 800 number for you to call. :)
 
gmgvtd said:
What about mobileme gallery???:( That's more important.
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EXACTLY.

MobileMe gallery is a great feature for people to upload their photos to my gallery and I can some how distribute mine.

I'll be very sad to see this feature going. I hope Apple gets a replacement for the same in the next 8-12 months.
 
BLACKFRIDAY said:
That's absolutely fine.

But do you expect that from a CEO of a company actually replying to a normal day-to-day email?
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Especially if the CEO is replying, he shouldn't be so flippant. It makes him sound like a dick.
 
Some people will be upset of course, but really, iWeb is junk... and I'm sure people were upset when Hypercard was kill too. LOL. Just switch to WordPress.com or Squarespace... or keep using iWeb and buy hosting for less than $99/year... but something like WordPress is a million times more powerful than just publishing cheesy static HTML pages.
 
nospeed411 said:
What a load of ****ing ********!!! I have about had it with S. Jobs and his little tude lately. I know didly **** about building a website and my small auto business has a nice page now thanks to the ease of iWeb and the hosting which I pay for. Now I am screwed...thanks Jobs for continuing to be a douche.
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Just get another company to host your web site at a cost lower than MobileMe cost you. You can still use iWeb to design/change it. You just need to get someone to host it. That is very easy to do. You are not screwed. Did you really expect Steve to foot the bill for every Apple user to have a free web site? You get a whole extra year for free to figure out what to do next. Hell of a guy, that Steve is.
 
Blorzoga said:
Especially if the CEO is replying, he shouldn't be so flippant. It makes him sound like a dick.
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What should he say exactly?

- We are sorry for taking this useful feature away.
- Please find another service that gives you this feature.
- I am sorry for this resentment of yours. I hope I can be more fair in the future.

:rolleyes:

Do you really expect Steve Jobs to write in each and every email he actually replies to?
 
koobcamuk said:
Not a Saint, not a God, you are right.

However, he is the CEO of one of the largest tech companies in the world. When a fan emails you to ask something like this, such a terse reply won't be agreeable for most people.
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If we are going to talk about Rules of being a CEO he'd be in a tie and jacket and "fans" wouldn't even have his e-mail address. Steve has never been one to comply to society's expectations.
 
As for the reply being rude... 1) all he said was yes 2) the person who sent the email said that MobileMe sucked... so there you go.
 
BLACKFRIDAY said:
What should he say exactly?

- We are sorry for taking this useful feature away.
- Please find another service that gives you this feature.
- I am sorry for this resentment of yours. I hope I can be more fair in the future.

:rolleyes:

Do you really expect Steve Jobs to write in each and every email he actually replies to?
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The first choice would have been appropriate.
 
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