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Apple unveils .Mac for Education

updated 04:15 pm EDT, Tue October 1, 2002

 
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Apple has introduced the educational version of its .Mac Web service. .Mac for Education allows education institutions to purchase an unlimited number of .Mac one-year subscriptions via purchase order at a special price of $60 per user (a minimum of 10 subscriptions is required). The education .Mac differs slightly from the consumer version; 50MB of iDisk storage (100MB for a consumer), a Mac.com IMAP email account with 10MB of storage (15MB for consumers), HomePage Web page builder, Backup software and Virex software.


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    hmm

    I don't see many universities going for this...

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    discount

    why couldn't they have at least offered this to the consumer? I know, Apple is as RIDGID as it always was.

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    Not just universities

    This is good for any education institute.

    Not that I see many (any?) schools of any type going for it. The only ones I can see it for would be
    (a) schools which don't have a public (internet seeable) server for doing the mail/web sites kind of thing.
    (b) schools that want to set up a myriad of accounts for students for some reasons (anyone?)
    (c) schools with loads of cash that are just dying to waste it on disk space and email vs. new computers to replace those crusty Perfomas.

    Really, I have nothing against .Mac myself (could care less if you buy it or not, I'm not one of those 'it sucks!' nor one of those 'its a great deal!' people), but I need to know: Has there been an outcry from the education side for this???

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    Education should be free

    I can understand Apple needing to make money on .Mac. I think charging consumers that want to use it is an okay idea, though I wish there were more pricing options. However, I think Apple really should have provided some form of .Mac for free to education. Apple is losing market share in education due in no small part to price undercutting by Dell. Having .Mac as an incentive for educators would be a powerful tool. I find it very hard to believe any school districts will fork out $59 per pupil to get these accounts.

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    Licensing, Apple! Sheesh!

    You have to wonder who is running the ship on the EDU side of Apple these days. The company offers some FANTASTIC (seriously amazing) deals on licensing (for example OS X Server and Jaguar) but can't figure out a better way to handle volume licensing than this?

    Much better idea: bundle .Mac in with Powerschool.

    2nd better idea: faculty/institutional pricing vs student pricing. $60/year for faculty, $30/year for students.

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    60$ edu vs. 50$ special

    Now why as a student would I go though the hassle of negociating a 60$ reduced account with my university, when I can get RIGHT NOW a 50$ full account?

    (Hint: I'm not giving in either way. Have to pay my books, my lunch, and my beer.)

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    Whatever

    This is an offer any university could pass up.

    Any large school or university will have it's own server. And any small school won't have the money to purchase .mac for every student at $60 a head. As for making students pay for this, what a joke. No student needs to pay $60 for email and 50 MB storage space. Use a Zip disk! LOL!

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    Beating a dead horse

    Listen up people...

    I'm sure that many schools won't go for this as many already have their own system implemented to provide email/web/storage space for students and faculty. HOWEVER, for the schools that don't have this, it isn't that bad a deal.

    And again...if you don't like it, don't get it. I'm sure I speak for many people when I say that I'm tired of everyone bitching and moaning about having to pay for a something....

    (Wait a minute... I have to pay for a service that someone else is providing for me?!?! WTF) *insert sarcasm*

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    Re: beating dead horse

    Sorry, but my arguments aren't about "it should be free" or anything. It just seems like a weird, expensive, deal for a school. I mean, I could see something like this for a family (like the family pricing on OS X), but its hard to imagine any school wanting to spend that kind of money. Maybe they're expecting the school to be the middle-man, so to speak, trying to sell it to students. Finally, as another poster said, Apple usually gives good deals/discounts on their other stuff (hardware, software), yet how come they couldn't discount the full service for students, rather discount it but limit it.

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    They have gotta be kiddin

    So for a class of 30 students Apple is expecting $1800 US for a year! For a school of 300 students -- which is tiny -- $18000 a year! Hello Apple is there anyone home? No wonder you are losing market share in education -- this is not just stupid but it is out right hostile to the people you need to be courting. I was leaning towards shell out $50 US to give apple the benefit of the doubt for a year on a consumer account... but really -- they don't deserve it for their .mac idiocy.

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