Re: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
Re: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
- Subject: Re: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
- From: James DiPalma <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 01:22:54 -0400
Is it impossible to have an on-topic discussion about leveraging iDisk
as a developer?
Every product and service that Apple develops costs money to develop.
Some of these products we get for free: iPhoto, iTunes, iCal,
AdressBook, Mail, iChat, Image Capture, Quicktime Player, Sherlock,
iSync, Rendezvous, and Inkwell. Even Apple Store genius bars can be
considered a free service; heck, Apple Stores can be considered a free
service: we don't pay to get in because letting people in pays for
itself (probably - right now Apple is secretly selling every computer
for a few extra bucks to help fund buiding Apple Stores).
Free products and services help Apple sell computers and increase
customer loyalty; we all benefit.
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 09:43 PM, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
Sure it does. But not as much as shutting mac.com down completely
because
it's gotten so expensive apple can't afford it any more, or sneaking the
cost of mac.com into every product and forcing everyone to subsidize the
mac.com users by stuffing a couple of bucks onto the price of every
computer
sold....
Is it possible to acknowledge that Apple's cost of development of free
products and services is not 100% subsidized by forcing every macintosh
consumer to pay a few extra bucks for every computer sold?
If iCal sells one macintosh that would have been a windows box, that is
one more customer for me, one more customer for you and about $500 that
should count as iCal revenue. This consumer probably would not pay $500
for iCal (and probably wouldn't buy a mac if not for a lot of other
technology, so $500 is a little high).
I think .Mac services are worth $100/yr and will happily pay. As a
developer, I ask how many potential customers, that could benefit from
an iDisk feature in my applications, did I lose?
From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
None. If it's webdav, so it's usable on other services or your own
server.
If it costs Apple $100/yr for every customer (customers that buy macs,
that upgrade their OS, that buy iPods, that buy Pro software), how much
would it cost me per customer to provide a webdav server?
I'm hoping that other 3rd party developers find a way to utilize iDisk,
it is a great tool for both users and developers.
-jim
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