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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

.Mac subscribers top half a million

MacWorld: " Apple's subscriber-only UK .Mac page reveals Apple now boasts over half a million subscribers. The figure remains dwarfed by adoption of the previously-free iTools service. Writing in October 2002, The Seattle Times claimed Apple to have 2.2 million iTools subscribers. Apple elected to transform iTools into the fee-based .Mac service in 2002. The company reported 100,000 users to have signed up to the new service at that time."

Bravo. I've found the .Mac service to be valuable, and have even written an article commending Apple for doing consumer-oriented, .NET-like services right, long before Microsoft did it in MSN 9 Premium. However, I've also complained that Apple was never able to get a sizable number of subscribers. If they're really hitting the 500,000 mark, then that's good stuff, and a good percentage of the 10 million people running Mac OS X.

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