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Apple pushing .Mac Renewals

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Apple Computer is gearing up for a campaign designed to convince users of its .Mac service to pay for another year.

It was a year ago this month that Apple announced it was converting its free iTools e-mail and online storage service to a paid program, which it dubbed .Mac. At the time, Apple tried to ease the shock of the $99 annual fee by giving existing iTools customers the chance to sign up for the first year at half the price. The company also extended the deadline and offered other extras to woo paid members, eventually forcing customers to pay up by last October or lose their mac.com e-mail address.
 
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hmm.. well i think your email address is resurved forever... because i can still use my old one for ichat
 

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But is .mac worth the $99.00 a year. :confused:
 
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rman said:
But is .mac worth the $99.00 a year. :confused:

That is the big question....I really think it's up to personal choice. For me I use almost all the features, except e-mail, and love the convenience of it as well as its integration into iLife, etc. So for me it's worth it. For others, maybe not.
 

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I have not looked into it as of yet. I don't have. How much disk space is Apple providing?
 
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you get 100 MB. That isn't really that much. That and the e-mail account are probably the only things going for .Mac.
 
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it was worth $50, but $100 is a stretch. hopefully theyll give in and compromise at like $65. like schweb i use a lot of the features, so it'd be woth it for that
 
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I am living with out it.. thinking if they drop price, ill hop on the boat.
 

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