Hope someone at Apple is reading this. (Score 1)

This is really sad, I already have virus software that I like, I already have my backups sorted out, because I am running OSX I can host my own email and web services. I _DONT_ need mac.com, however it was cool becuase even though I dont agree with everything they do I still prefer the Mac hardware and sofware to the alternatives out there. I am a bit of a mac evangalist at heart, every time I gave someone a mac.com email address I was promoting Apple and often it would result in some Apple related discusion.
Now I will go back to one of my own email address's and Apple will miss out on that free promotion. If they had a $20 a month email account I would pay for it, I love mac that much, but $100 to promote Apple, get real.

Please someone a Apple be reading this, introduce a cheap email only account to keep those mac.com addresses in use and reduce the damage.