Giving someone a "lifetime" of anything is a huge liability. No business should dig a hole for itself like this. Apple ran into a bit of trouble because they h

Giving someone a "lifetime" of anything is a huge liability. No business should dig a hole for itself like this. Apple ran into a bit of trouble because they had offered iTools for free to anyone who bought a Mac. But the costs of maintaining were high, so they renamed it .Mac and began charging for it. (Now the service is MobileMe.) http://www.applematters.com/article/july-17-2002-apple-kills-itools/ http://www.applematters.com/article/july-17-2002-apple-kills...