(those who have lived with roaches)
You turn on the light and see them scatter? This is what I'm picturing...not that I pay for email or anything, but Crapple's latest ad campaign has me ticked off...
[quoteurl=http://news.com.com/2100-1040-946379.html?tag=fd_top]E-mail's not free? Mac owners flee
Apple Computer's plan to start charging for its Mac.com e-mail service has Mac owners scrambling for alternatives.
Even as a petition circulates to try to get Apple to change its mind, many users are shopping around for a lower-cost way to get their mail before Apple pulls the plug on the free service at the end of September.
"I am most upset because I felt I purchased this when I bought the OS," said software engineer Paul Causey, who has now signed up for a free e-mail account through Yahoo. "Each time I went into an Apple store, they sold me on the idea of iDisk and e-mail."
Although Apple never explicitly said that the accounts would be free for life, many Mac users had counted on it and were not happy when CEO Steve Jobs announced that, starting in September, the e-mail accounts will become part of Apple's $99 per year .Mac service. [/quoteurl]
OY!
[quoteurl=http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946430.html?tag=fd_top]Hotmail clean-out catches members out
For three months, freelance writer Lydia Zajc updated friends and family on her adventures in Southeast Asia by sending detailed messages from her Hotmail account.
In a series of e-mails, she described munching noodles and buns on the streets of China and watching monks receive alms in Laos. Zajc planned to repurpose the e-mails for travel writing pieces when she returned home.
But on Wednesday, Zajc, who had saved the messages in her Hotmail Sent file, logged on to find that her e-mails had evaporated into thin air. "I literally broke down in tears," said Zajc, who now lives in Newfoundland, Canada, and for the past 24 hours has been furiously e-mailing recipients of the messages, hoping some of them saved her missives. [/quoteurl]
You turn on the light and see them scatter? This is what I'm picturing...not that I pay for email or anything, but Crapple's latest ad campaign has me ticked off...
[quoteurl=http://news.com.com/2100-1040-946379.html?tag=fd_top]E-mail's not free? Mac owners flee
Apple Computer's plan to start charging for its Mac.com e-mail service has Mac owners scrambling for alternatives.
Even as a petition circulates to try to get Apple to change its mind, many users are shopping around for a lower-cost way to get their mail before Apple pulls the plug on the free service at the end of September.
"I am most upset because I felt I purchased this when I bought the OS," said software engineer Paul Causey, who has now signed up for a free e-mail account through Yahoo. "Each time I went into an Apple store, they sold me on the idea of iDisk and e-mail."
Although Apple never explicitly said that the accounts would be free for life, many Mac users had counted on it and were not happy when CEO Steve Jobs announced that, starting in September, the e-mail accounts will become part of Apple's $99 per year .Mac service. [/quoteurl]
OY!
[quoteurl=http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946430.html?tag=fd_top]Hotmail clean-out catches members out
For three months, freelance writer Lydia Zajc updated friends and family on her adventures in Southeast Asia by sending detailed messages from her Hotmail account.
In a series of e-mails, she described munching noodles and buns on the streets of China and watching monks receive alms in Laos. Zajc planned to repurpose the e-mails for travel writing pieces when she returned home.
But on Wednesday, Zajc, who had saved the messages in her Hotmail Sent file, logged on to find that her e-mails had evaporated into thin air. "I literally broke down in tears," said Zajc, who now lives in Newfoundland, Canada, and for the past 24 hours has been furiously e-mailing recipients of the messages, hoping some of them saved her missives. [/quoteurl]
