same thing. you can use either .mac or .me does not matter (only for existing .mac members)
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Revamps .Mac: Mobile Me Announced
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
same thing. you can use either .mac or .me does not matter (only for existing .mac members)
Can someone answer this for me? My current .mac account expires in 64 days. I have a retail box for another year. If I activate it now, will it add a year on to the 64 days I have left (429 days total)? Or will it begin today as the new day 1?
Basically I want it activate it before this mobileme thing starts so there is no "sorry, that is no longer valid" surprises when I try to activate it in 2 months. I know that they will roll current .mac memberships into mobileme, which is why I want to activate it now.
Basically I want it activate it before this mobileme thing starts so there is no "sorry, that is no longer valid" surprises when I try to activate it in 2 months. I know that they will roll current .mac memberships into mobileme, which is why I want to activate it now.
Does anyone know..
Can you have a MobileMe log-in, and then a separate personal domain name email through Apple Mail?
I am extremely interested in all of the new feature that MobileMe has to offer but DO NOT want to maintain another separate (useless, to me) email address, and not be able to include my personal working email.
Can you have a MobileMe log-in, and then a separate personal domain name email through Apple Mail?
I am extremely interested in all of the new feature that MobileMe has to offer but DO NOT want to maintain another separate (useless, to me) email address, and not be able to include my personal working email.
Hm, so basically, have the online Mail app be able to act as a POP/IMAP client accessing another email account? Well, a) I doubt it, but b) that would be awesome if it could (especially IMAP)!
If they didn't, they have to fix iWeb so, like a real app, it can upload to regular FTP sites. I doubt they'd throw away vendor lock-in so easily.
For current .Mac users:
Can keep @mac.com or use @me.com
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/migrating/
(most) Everything you'd want to know.
Done. sent my 2 cents. may .mac live.
Synapse?
I'm just thinking out loud, but does anyone else remember movie, "Antitrust"? It was practically a Microsoft documentary, although I can't imagine the computer geeks at ol' Redmond are as buff as Ryan Phillipe or as hot as Rachael Leigh Cook.
A lot of the kerfuffle was over Synapse, a system designed to hold your information and keep it with you wherever you went. The main issue of Synapse was of course the stolen code and all the killing and the mayhem, but there were also things about the notion of storing all your data with a company like Microso... er... NURV.
I'm not making any judgements about Apple or MobileMe (I'm looking forward to my .Mac membership getting the upgrade, and anxious to get the new iPhone to use with it); I'm just remembering things.
I'm just thinking out loud, but does anyone else remember movie, "Antitrust"? It was practically a Microsoft documentary, although I can't imagine the computer geeks at ol' Redmond are as buff as Ryan Phillipe or as hot as Rachael Leigh Cook.
A lot of the kerfuffle was over Synapse, a system designed to hold your information and keep it with you wherever you went. The main issue of Synapse was of course the stolen code and all the killing and the mayhem, but there were also things about the notion of storing all your data with a company like Microso... er... NURV.
I'm not making any judgements about Apple or MobileMe (I'm looking forward to my .Mac membership getting the upgrade, and anxious to get the new iPhone to use with it); I'm just remembering things.
Of course the difference is that's a movie and this is real life. If Google or Apple or whoever was ever discovered stealing personal information from users, there'd be a class action lawsuit in the billions so quickly it wouldn't even be funny.
Why are you unhappy?
I have been a longtime reader of MR but have never actually commented on anything, however, now i feel i must. I can't understand the fuss over the name of me.com and its new logo. "Childish", "Self Centered", I don't get it? Its a service that is all about YOU. It allows ME to sync all of MY contacts, calenders, Photos, Bookmarks with all of MY other computers in the best possible way. As well as allowing ME to create MY own iWeb website about ME. Im noticing a trend, anyone else? In my opinion it is a very clever and well thought out brand name. It describes exactly what the service is about, me, .Mac on the other hand based solely on looking at the name what information can you gather? Its a service about a mac and the internet? As for the .Mac members for you almost everything is still the same, besides dropping support for Panther syncing and the ability to view your bookmarks online and you get all these new extras as a bonus. You still can keep your .mac address, you do not have to inform the world of the change, really you do not have to do anything but sit there and receive more services for free, and if you don't use them, nothing gained nothing lost. So if you were happy with the way things were before, how can you not be more than overjoyed with the way things are now.
And as a little aside to all the logo personally i like it but i can see how some people may not like it/agree with it.
Don't get me wrong, however, as much as i love the new me.com service, and how it perfectly suits the needs i have been desperately looking to fulfill i understand that there are some people this service will not appeal to. If you don't use more than one mac or computer for that matter, or an iPhone i really don't see how this service can be more than just an extra, a toy.
I have used the .Mac service only on a trial basis and found it quite useful but for the price (i think it was around the AU$160, although i could be getting it confused with the family pack) the return on investment did not warrant me buying it. Now, this is a different story, coupled with the soon to be released iPhone 3G here and the fact i use a MacBook and iMac this more than warrants a purchase.
Bring on July 11!
RMW
I have been a longtime reader of MR but have never actually commented on anything, however, now i feel i must. I can't understand the fuss over the name of me.com and its new logo. "Childish", "Self Centered", I don't get it? Its a service that is all about YOU. It allows ME to sync all of MY contacts, calenders, Photos, Bookmarks with all of MY other computers in the best possible way. As well as allowing ME to create MY own iWeb website about ME. Im noticing a trend, anyone else? In my opinion it is a very clever and well thought out brand name. It describes exactly what the service is about, me, .Mac on the other hand based solely on looking at the name what information can you gather? Its a service about a mac and the internet? As for the .Mac members for you almost everything is still the same, besides dropping support for Panther syncing and the ability to view your bookmarks online and you get all these new extras as a bonus. You still can keep your .mac address, you do not have to inform the world of the change, really you do not have to do anything but sit there and receive more services for free, and if you don't use them, nothing gained nothing lost. So if you were happy with the way things were before, how can you not be more than overjoyed with the way things are now.
And as a little aside to all the logo personally i like it but i can see how some people may not like it/agree with it.
Don't get me wrong, however, as much as i love the new me.com service, and how it perfectly suits the needs i have been desperately looking to fulfill i understand that there are some people this service will not appeal to. If you don't use more than one mac or computer for that matter, or an iPhone i really don't see how this service can be more than just an extra, a toy.
I have used the .Mac service only on a trial basis and found it quite useful but for the price (i think it was around the AU$160, although i could be getting it confused with the family pack) the return on investment did not warrant me buying it. Now, this is a different story, coupled with the soon to be released iPhone 3G here and the fact i use a MacBook and iMac this more than warrants a purchase.
Bring on July 11!
RMW
Price Drop?
Yes i notice the Australian version is now at AU$119 for a single user. I defiantly don't remember it being this cheep.
Cheers
RMW
Yes i notice the Australian version is now at AU$119 for a single user. I defiantly don't remember it being this cheep.
Cheers
RMW
I must say, I didn't care for the branding at first, but like everything else, "MobileMe" is growing on... me. It's not such a bad name, and I do think it conveys more information than .Mac ever did.
taking it a little bit further. what about offering something like google apps for our domain.
If its exchange for the rest of us what about companies with 0-5 or something like that still want everything everywhere to be up to date
I realize that, it's just an odd parallelism, and in terms of the technical aim, not as far fetched a concept as Synapse seemed to be at the time the movie came out.
There is nothing about mobile me and your personal webpage and how it interacts with iWeb or am I missing something?
why keep waiting?
go to activate it now and get a @mac.com address immediately!!!
btw i hate the name, and i hate the logo too.
i really hope they don't drop iweb from this transition. i paid for a 1 year subscription and this is one of the things i like to use. personally i could give a crap about calendars and some of the other garbage .mac had that this new site is touting.
No, this isn't about the online app being able to act as a client for another IMAP account. All that's needed is for MobileMe to allow you to check AND send from another account, as GMail allows you to. So MobileME becomes your centralised archive of all your emails, whichever address they were sent to or from. I currently have all my email "accounts" going through Gmail. Yes, in Outlook (apparently) it comes up as From: Soandso at gmail.com on behalf of realaddress at domain.com, but that is no problem for me.
However, seeing as how MobileMe is a paid service, why not the full GoogleApps approach, where my from address would actually BE my own email from my own domain.
Looks awesome, I just hope it isn't crippled to death like .Mac
Things that stopped me buying .Mac:
* Very poor quality and resolution of web gallery photos with no way of changing it.
* Inability to host a personal domain on it, having to resort to POP3 to fetch emails from the domain (YUCK) and with no way to set the domain as the "From" address.
* Price (they've improved this in GBP, at least)
Edit: Uh oh...
Things that stopped me buying .Mac:
* Very poor quality and resolution of web gallery photos with no way of changing it.
* Inability to host a personal domain on it, having to resort to POP3 to fetch emails from the domain (YUCK) and with no way to set the domain as the "From" address.
* Price (they've improved this in GBP, at least)
Edit: Uh oh...