fooled!
Now that you have had some time to reflect on this, I hope you realize that you were essentially 100% wrong about this?
If I pay for 12 months of something and it is down for 2 weeks because of issues, and they give me 30 days compensation, then I got what I paid for and then some.
Saying it is meaningless as it relates to a subscription service is pretty ignorant.
If the problems persist past 30 days then there is another issue to address, otherwise it is reasonable and desirable compensation. Claiming it is worthless is just wrong on your part.
I don't know what the heck you are talking about.
I haven't changed my opinion on this and nothing you have said has changed it either.
You are being
fooled. Your "free month" is only on paper and constitutes no real value. In fact it's so obvious I don't understand why you are even arguing about it. I'm sure it's irritating to be fooled like this, but once someone points it out to you, the only rational approach is just to admit that you were fooled, not just claim that black is white.
If you are on a
free trial (the market the "free month"
promotion is aimed at), it's a good value. It give you the time to truly assess the service given that the first week or two were total crap.
If you are a paid member, it does literally nothing at all. There have been no changes made to my account yet, but presumably it will just change the date of my renewal to one month further in the future. The only way this benefits me, is if I *don't* renew my subscription, I get one last month longer than I thought. Even so, if they change the renewal date, the effective change when I stop renewing is actually even less, especially if I have been living with the new renewal date for some time.
If (and this is a big if as it contradicts the emails Apple has been sending out), they actually give me $9.08 Canadian off of my next renewal, then that would be an actual cash saving or "real" benefit. Still it's less than ten bucks. Imagine the outcry if Apple had instead announced that they were giving everyone ten bucks for their trouble. It wouldn't sound as good as this promotion would it?
In any case Apple has indicated in emails that this is not what they are going to do anyway. It's an "extension" of an essentially unlimited time frame. Kind of like saying that new evidence has shown the Universe will last a week longer than thought,
it doesn't really help those of us that probably won't last until then.
This "gift" has no value at all for paid members and is certainly not recompense for the myriad failings of .Mac and now MobileMe.
I'm not one of those complainers that thinks that this stuff should be free and the 100 bucks a year seems more than fair IMO. However, the service has always kind of sucked, and the features and benefits promised over the years have
never materialised. Apple has failed time and time again to provide these. Now we have even less features for the same price, but they are all (for me) severely broken.
Great work Apple!
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