Re: Mac Alternatives
Re: Mac Alternatives
- Subject: Re: Mac Alternatives
- From: Frank Petrie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:31:54 -0400
On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 01:03 a, email@hidden
wrote: Randolph Marshall wrote:
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I have had hotmail since it started and would offer that it has been a
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far
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more reliable service for me than .mac has over the past two years.
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(your
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milage may vary) You can still to this day get a 2 mb free email
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address
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from them an those of us who have used hotmail for years have enjoyed
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the
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ability to read our email on the run - a feature Apple finally copied a
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few
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months ago.
Which MS copied from many other services like Yahoo.
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And unlike Apple, Microsoft has always treated me personally with great
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courtesy and respect which makes me hold them in high regard as a
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company
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that displays good ethics. (I know what other people say but my
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personal
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experience has been wonderful).
MS has yet over all the time "Mactopia" has been in existence have had
there people answer a single one of my emails regarding either demos or
correcting our MUG's information. The fact that they have been good to
you and lousy to the rest of us makes them a useful tool to you but not
the Mac community as a whole.
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An issue that concerns me and it also concerns a great many other
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people is
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this whole .net/.mac initiative. I am looking to be free and less
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dependent
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upon a net connection, and less chained to the computer.
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For me, the Mac is a tool and a joy to work with, but with this new and
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disturbing trend towards forced net participation is making me feel
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like I
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am a prisoner and that my Mac is going to be a grinding stone size
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burden
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that I must carry every day.
Although you have used very nice flowery language, I'll be damned if I
can find your point in here? YOU and ONLY YOU decide if you are a
prisoner by your agreement to participation in the scheme.
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Everyone's services go out from time to time so if all your data is
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locked
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up on a server somewhere that is scary - add to that the issue that all
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data
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that exists outside of your computer is insecure and we have some very
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real
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issues that end users must consider.
And we all know how secure MS servers are. ;)
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Yep for $7 a month its common to get these features and more including
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your
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own domain name:
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250 MB Storage
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250 POP3 Email Accounts
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Yourname.com
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Online Community
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25 GB Transfer
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FrontPage 2002 Ext.
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WebStats
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SSL, MySQL, PHP4
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99.7% Uptime
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24/7 FTP Access
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Web-Based E-mail
What is the URL for this wonderful service? I'd like to check it out for
myself. Sounds good. But there's that dreaded web-based email again. I
don't wanna be a prisoner, y'know!
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Other issues that have come up that are of concern to potential .mac
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people
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include:
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1. Are we really sure our data is secure on Apple Servers?
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2. Is there any spying on personal mail going on?
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3. How secure is this from the government? Is Apple using Carnivour?
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4. Can we now use these for business purposes now if we pay?
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5. Data bandwidth - how much, does Apple respect end users and allow
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downloads of popular stuff? Whats the limit on this kind of thing?
And you can ask these same questions of any Net service - MSN, AOL, et
al. Valid questions all, but they must be asked of ALL providers.
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There are easy ways to make money, keep your customers happy and loving
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you
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and doing the right thing is one of them. I love Apple and I see them
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seriously messing up which bumms me out because I can see how they
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should be
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acting and what they should be doing that would bring them success...
Mr. Marshall - from my time spent reading your many rants, I can't
believe that any company would make you happy. I also notice a trend of
whining and whining, then offering no practical solutions, just pipe
dreams. You are obviously not a parent. From the tone of your responses,
a five-year old would have you in the palm of their hand.
FREE - FREE - FREE! This would seem to be your rallying cry. Remember,
this is the computer INDUSTRY. It's not a charity. I don't know about
you, but if I were to give away all my efforts and services for free,
I'd be on the streets very quickly. How about you? Do you work for free?
Not a practical business model no matter how you twist it, is it?
Sorry that you are so bummed Mr. Balmer/Randolph. Perhaps you should
'Switch.'
Sincerely,
Frank Petrie
V.P., Vendor Rep, Webmaster, Cog
SJAUG, South Jersey Apple Users Group
email@hidden
www.sjaug.org
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