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iWoz
Jul 10, 2009, 04:13 AM
Can you still pick up an email address which is @mac as opposed to @me?

Or has this completely been discontinued?


jav6454
Jul 10, 2009, 04:20 AM
Can you still pick up an email address which is @mac as opposed to @me?

Or has this completely been discontinued?

If you have a .Mac box, yes I think you can still do that. Otherwise, it's discontinued. I wish I would have gotten .Mac before it go renamed.
iWoz
Jul 10, 2009, 04:35 AM
If you have a .Mac box, yes I think you can still do that. Otherwise, it's discontinued. I wish I would have gotten .Mac before it go renamed.

I presume these are very rare to find?
RumMunkey
Jul 10, 2009, 10:48 AM
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No, ALL new sign ups now get .me only.

In fact, I upgraded my single account (I am .mac/.me) to a family account, and even my family members get .me only.
iWoz
Jul 10, 2009, 11:57 AM
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No, ALL new sign ups now get .me only.

In fact, I upgraded my single account (I am .mac/.me) to a family account, and even my family members get .me only.

Thanks Rummunkey!!
isaaclimdc
Jul 10, 2009, 12:03 PM
YES! How I wish we could still get a choice to use an @mac instead of @me. IMHO @me is just kind of ridiculous. Nothing shouts out "I'M A PROUD MAC USER" than having an @mac.com email address. With @me, it's like, "What was that, again?"
munkees
Jul 10, 2009, 12:11 PM
I never understood why the move from .mac to .me did not make much sense.
sushi
Jul 10, 2009, 12:13 PM
I like my dot mac address.

Although, dot me is growing on me a bit.

Not sure, but I think that the move from dot mac to dot me was to differentiate the service from the Mac. That way it would be more cross platform in name. Again, just a guess.
isaaclimdc
Jul 10, 2009, 12:45 PM
Not sure, but I think that the move from dot mac to dot me was to differentiate the service from the Mac. That way it would be more cross platform in name. Again, just a guess.

You may have a point there, but I think it would be really dumb of Apple to promote a cross-platform branding for such a service. They want the Halo Effect, and not something that feebly promotes the Mac.
iWoz
Jul 10, 2009, 07:11 PM
YES! How I wish we could still get a choice to use an @mac instead of @me. IMHO @me is just kind of ridiculous. Nothing shouts out "I'M A PROUD MAC USER" than having an @mac.com email address. With @me, it's like, "What was that, again?"

LOL exactly
Daveoc64
Jul 11, 2009, 10:22 AM
It would be a lot easier for everyone if you could assume that every address was at both:

user_name@me.com

AND

user_name@mac.com