LOL sounds like maybe you mac addicts should all get your .S&MAC addresses
soon before your master spanks you. 8-)
LAG
>From: Pedro Hobbyfrazoo <pjfraser_at_mac.com>
>Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>CC: Kelly Donahue <kellydonahue_at_earthlink.net>,Patrick Gunn
><redgunn_at_telus.net>
>Subject: [NTLK] all this over $0.27 a day...
>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:05:34 -0700
>
> from http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/
>
>Monday, July 22, 2002
>
>Apple Co-Dependence Reaches An All-Time High.
>
>Apple's announcements last week that it would begin charging for its
>newly branded .Mac suite of tools and that Mac OS X 10.2 would cost
>users $120 have caused co-dependence among Mac users to soar to
>unprecedented heights.
>In a scathing rebuke published on MacInTouch on Friday, graphic designer
>Karl Hansen demanded Apple reinstate the 17 mac.com email addresses he
>has been using for free.
>"Apple will never see another red cent from me or, I suspect, many other
>graphics professionals, as long as it tries to hold us hostage," Hansen
>wrote. "I will not pay for email addresses and I will not pay for Mac OS
>X as it should have been to begin with. If these two things are not
>rectified, Apple leaves me no choice but to switch to Wintel."
>Over the weekend, however, Hansen completed the sign-up process for .Mac
>and added the additional 16 email addresses and pre-ordered three copies
>of Mac OS X 10.2 for his two Power Macs and his PowerBook G4. The total
>cost to Hansen was $570.
>"I don't know what came over me," Hansen said. "I was so angry last week
>and I said some things that maybe I shouldn't have. Sure, I still think
>Apple's wrong, but I'm willing to admit that I was wrong, too."
>"I was a fool to think I could leave Apple. I'll never leave Apple. I
>love Apple and Apple still loves me. I just know it."
>Macs-Ahoy columnist Randall Corby also experienced a change of heart
>over the weekend. Corby's "That's The Fact, Mac!" column on Thursday
>predicted Apple would capitulate on its pricing when users failed to
>sign up for .Mac and failed to order 10.2.
>Corby himself paid for both on Saturday night.
>"Apple wouldn't charge me if I didn't deserve it," Corby explained. "I
>see that now. I just hope Apple takes me back."
>Psychologist Brent Schmahl has noticed symptoms of classic co-dependence
>in a number of postings to web sites and message boards in the past
>several days.
>"People feel they are being mistreated, but they're still coming back
>for more," Schmahl said. For his part, Schmahl is certain Apple has some
>great features up its sleeve for future .Mac enhancements. Schmahl
>himself upgraded his iTools account to .Mac, paying the additional $10
>for the email address he uses for his cat, Scratches.
>
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