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RE: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
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RE: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting


  • Subject: RE: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
  • From: Kevin Elliott <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:49:23 -0700

5,000,000x20= 100,000,000 Megabytes/1024= 97,656.25 Gigabytes/1024= ~95
Terabytes.

Can you honestly expect apple to give away 95 terabytes of storage?

-Kevin Elliott
Software Engineer
CharisMac Engineering

> ----------
> From: James DiPalma
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 16:10
> To: Charles Srstka
> Cc: Cocoa Development
> Subject: Re: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
>
> 5 million Mac OS X users would mean 5 million iDisk users if Apple does
> not charge for .Mac services. I'm a developer who was considering
> providing functionality that helps integrate my application with iDisk.
> Now that Apple is charging $100, how many potential customers for this
> feature did I just lose?
>
> Can Apple expect to get more than 10% of its OS X customers to pay $100
> for .Mac when only about 10% of its customers have payed for OS X (if 5
> million = 20%, 800k units last quarter = 3.2 million units this year,
> 80% keep OS X = 2.5 million users of OS X did not pay).
>
> Any other developers considering iDisk functionality in their
> applications?
>
>
> -jim
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