.mac costs
.mac costs
- Subject: .mac costs
- From: Randolph Marshall <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:57:57 -0400
On 9/20/02 8:00 AM, Marley Graham wrote:
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I personally think it is time to stop the whining about .mac. If you
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like it, buy it; if you don't, don't.
Since, you did not add anything relevant to the conversation about this
issue, then let me add some additional fact and figures:
35,000,000 initial investment
-5,000,000 for the 100,000 people who purchased accounts
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30,000,000 current debt that has not been recouped for initial investment
Which means that Apple must garner another 300,000 users before it even
begins to break even on the .mac thing.
Lets hope that those 300,000 people sign up by the end of the year so .mac
does not go .bomb!
Even if I am skeptical about this product, I certainly want Apple to stop
making bad decisions (everywhere from the interface, to the marketing
campaign, to the computers it manufactures) so that all of us can be proud
of our favorite computer maker and see some substantial growth in the number
of users, rather than our current lethargic growth figures.
Apple says it looks at India and China as growth areas (that great) but the
biggest growth area they are going to see if they would do their job
correctly would be in #1 the USA, #2 the European Union and #3 if they could
create relevant pricing for the places they sell, Latin America.
Somewhere along the line, Apple is getting some terrible leadership. It
could be Steve, it could be the people he is listening to, who knows.
Perhaps is it the influence of Larry Ellison and this news story will help:
From MacNN.com:
Ellison resigns from Apple Board of Directors
Apple today announced that Larry Ellison, chairman and chief executive
officer of Oracle Corporation, is resigning from Apple9s Board of Directors:
"I will continue to offer my advice to Steve and the executive management
team at Apple, but my schedule does not currently allow me to attend enough
of the formal board meetings to warrant a role as a director."
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Maybe this resignation will get Apple moving in the right direction
especially since Ellison (no matter how hansom he might be, how cool he is
with his practicing of Zen principles and what kind of bvds he wears) has
some very destructive ideas on what is good for the world. Ellison believes
in a socialistic bent (world drivers licenses, everyone is a number in his
oracle database, etc.) and Mac Users have traditionally believed in freedom
and individuality. Things that I feel most of us Mac Users still want.
If you have not noticed, Apple has been pulling us away from those ethics,
ethics that made us successful - which is why I feel we as a community are
not succeeding. Communism failed in the 80's. We know that system does not
work because it provides no incentive for anyone to contribute effort to the
cause. What worked in our little community for some 20 years was creating a
free atmosphere where everyone from programmers to homemakers could feel
like they could contribute. I think we have lost that ethic and the
gratitude for small contributions.
Its just some thoughts and I could be wrong; however, I truly believe Mac
Users are strong individuals who both need and want empowerment.
My personal best,
Randy Marshall
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