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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Apple's .Mac Service to be Renamed, Revamped?
![]() Apple's .Mac ("dotmac") service is a $99/year set of online tools that provides customers with email (@mac), web hosting, iDisk, backup and sync services. .Mac services are tightly integrated with Apple's existing iLife suite, allowing you to publish content easily from iPhoto, iWeb and iMovie. Apple appears to be poised to rename and revamp this 6 year old service. Codingrobots reveals that all references to Apple's .Mac service in Mac OS X 10.5.3 have been replaced with a variable... essentially a blank space that can be easily replaced in the future by a software update. The reason for this appears to be that Apple will be rebranding their .Mac service. This renaming plan is actually spelled out in iCal's localizable.strings file: Quote:
In early May, TUAW claimed that .Mac would undergo a complete revamp near WWDC, and include the over-the-air syncing like Exchange and .Mac syncing with Windows. There has already been evidence that .Mac will be begin offering "push" functionality for Mail, Contacts and Calendar items in the iPhone 2.0 firmware, so a WWDC revamp certainly seems possible. Other whispers have suggested that Apple will start offering a discounted .Mac ( Article Link |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: London, England
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macrumors newbie
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I've been calling my MacBook for Mobile Me for a couple of years now.
Maybe I should have copyrighted it? ![]() Quote:
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macrumors 6502a
Join Date: Nov 2006
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I think some of the iDisk performance problems are really Finder's fault. I find it works much better when using Terminal.
Finder is probably built on some abstraction where you can drop in different underlying filesystem modules without Finder caring. But this is a bad idea in some ways because it needs to know so it can behave differently for remote filesystems. e.g. merge requests in to one, cancel some more frivolous requests such as live previews. |
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macrumors 6502
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Finder's implementation of DAV is a serious bandwidth hog. Dozens of redundant requests. I noticed when I used Finder that I hit daily or monthly bandwidth limits at lightning speed. If you push a megabyte of data to a DAV disk, Finder's overhead easily quintuples it.
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macrumors 6502a
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Bruges, Belgium
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Finally, i hope europeans get a 'snappier' service, i want to use .Mac but its unworkable for me at the moment.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Watching ink dry
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After so many years of patiently suffering it'd be wonderful to have a decent - read useable - service…
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Yeah, it would be nice if service were the same anywhere in the world we go. I look forward to what .Mac will morph into. I wasn't impressed enough in the trail period to extend the subscription. There just wasn't enough value presented.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Florida
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I only hope that they don't start requiring .Mac (or whatever it will be called) for some of these iPhone syncing features.
... and I'm still waiting for the ability to sync and edit Notes on the computer, along with a proper "to-do" app. I'm sure there will be 3rd party apps to solve those issues though. |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Bring on the revamp. As a .mac user since 2004, I'm eagerly looking for new features to the service.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Florida
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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NOTE: I haven't read the whole thread yet, so maybe this is a dup?
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I don't mind the name ".Mac," and it's certainly better than "Mobile Me."
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: MA, USA
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Makes sense
This makes a lot of sense if one of its features is to allow push mail to iPhones.
Given than the vast majority of iPhone owners are Windows users, offering .Mac services to Windows users would be needed. The current name ".Mac" is not conductive to the windows market.
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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Finally bought .mac yesterday... hopefully any upgrades will be offered to me for free, preferably, but I'd accept a discount to upgrade.
Of course if no option is offered and I have to pay full price, I can assure you I will not bitch about apple being unfair like many others would.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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It's about time. I'd certainly love an easy way to sync my contacts, calendars and to-do's over-the-air. Even if it would just sync wirelessly through my LAN would be a big improvement over having to use the cable.
I think $99 is too much to pay for this service, however. I'm not likely to make much use of .mac's other services. Maybe at a price point closer to $39/yr I'd bite, to save the hassle of manual sync'ing. |
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Join Date: May 2008
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.
I'd pay $49 or $59 for a yearly subscription without the iPhone, but no more than $9.99 or $14.99 with an iPhone subscription.
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I can't see $9.99 a year as being a price point they'd go for, however something in between that and what it is now could be possible. Don't forget they have over 1,000,000 members (announced at one of the keynotes, forget which). That would be useful, but I hardly see why the name has to change from "mac" just for windows users. |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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If Joe is sitting at a Mac, then joe@mac describes that situation. For a Windows user it does not.
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Montréal, Canada
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.mac eats...
why anyone would buy that over a communal ftp server that costs the same but offers a million times more space and bandwidth as well as your own site address (www.mysite.ca, etc.) is beyond me... now if apple decided that the new .mac was like a communal server that offers a million times more space and badwidth as well as your own site address, on top of integration with iApps, that would be impressive... |
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Back then, we argued over whether Apple could keep a $99/year service alive, when there were plenty of free alternatives available. So far they have.
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.Mac just maybe IS worth $99
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It is annoying when someone says $99 for {lists one function of .mac}. I'd pay $39, maybe, for that. etc. .mac, therefore is terrible. Website hosting: Godaddy is $4.05 per month for 10 GB storage and 300GB transfer 1yr =$48.60 Plus domain registration and renewal. [.Mac Value to me equals say $55] Email Address: Too many free options [.Mac Value to me equals say $0] Backup Software I really like the back up software, when I used it for work and it was a business deduction it was worth about $99 or more to me b/c equivalent back up programs would be near that price or more. Now, I can back up without it, but is takes more time and without .Mac i'd probably buy a back up software program, some DVD's and i'd pay for updates every couple years. so .. [Annual .Mac value to me for back up $20] Product upload tied into iMovie and iPhoto Without this tie-in I would just export the movies to QT format and upload to my website hosted at Godaddy. I'd probably buy an FTP client and update it ever couple years to the newest version [Annual .Mac value to me for easy uploads tied to .Mac service, $10] iCards [Value to me $0] Bookmarks Value to me $0 iDisk Value to me $0 Back to my Mac Value to me $0 Groups Value to me $0 So, I feel like I have been pretty conservative in my valuation and it is worth about $85 to me, and I pay $99 without discount. So, I am not happy with dot mac (esp. since i don't use it for my work anymore). But is it terrible, kinda, but it is 'nice' and it is convenient to use and not worry about building a webpage just to throw some pics up for grandma or friends. If you wanted to build a page as nice as .mac you would spend some money of the software or you would spent many of your hours building/coding by hand. Not to be a prick but my wage is pretty good, so I can't justify spending any time building a website or working with a hosting company and Ftp'ing etc if you apply my hourly wage to the time I spend building a website (if not for .mac) the expense gets big, quick. I feel better to have vented a little. I hope someday i can say .Mac is worth $160 and i pay $99!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last edited by Preclaro_tipo : May 30, 2008 at 03:10 PM. Reason: added more .mac features and the value to me |
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NJ Highlands
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Now I know its unfair to linearize this based on storage capacity, particularly when one's not really able to use it, but for even the 50GB offered in a .mac family account, the value works out to ($88*10/1500) only $3/year. But considering how many places offer a couple of GB storage for free (photos, etc), maybe a $3/year price really isn't all that far out of line afterall. Quote:
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