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Apple's .Mac Service to be Renamed, Revamped?

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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:

This finding may validate recent whispers that Apple is planning a dramatic .Mac update alongside the iPhone 2.0 release.

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 (

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Mobile ME??? WTF! I want the MAC back as in mac.com. Reminds me of mini- me GIVE ME A BREAK APPLE:eek:
 
Its a good thing Apple isn't ignoring its traditional markets that made it was it is today. :rolleyes:

Seriously though. Apple's hardware and OS platform still aren't good enough to shrug off and focus on the iThing which is the distinct impression I'm getting. I dropped .Mac in February because of the lack of features. That and the inability to have others comment in your photo gallery. Making the damn service center around mobile user and more specifically iPhone users...gee that going to really tempt me to come back...not.
 
Please not Mobile Me!

I do understand the need to change the branding, particularly if Windows users are to be brought online, but Mobile Me sounds too much like Windows Me.
 
Welcome to my freaking iLair.
 

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Much of the speculation is on push mail etc, but good to see people talking about the other things .Mac currently does.

I would really love to see an online user folder cached locally (like iDisk but invisible as my user folder). I want to just login to the Mac at my parents and have my entire desktop & files, just like my home machine. (I have it do that BASICALLY now, but it's not seemless).

I can understand that backing up movies would be too big (though perhaps "back to my mac" would do the job of allowing a sync or remote access?). Maybe music would need to have a smaller subset of music synced online (so just 4GB backed up and available at any mac).

(purchased music & TV, as well as applications, is identical for everyone so very easy to "back up")

All my personal photos could go online (and be published simultaneously if I wanted), all my documents, everything I need to run my computer. If I lose my computer I should be able to restore almost everything online, plus the music and movies that are on my iPod.

That would really 'mobileme'.

(And ideally I could delete my whole laptop right now which is having issues, reinstall OSX, and restore everything without a thought).
 
they will come up with something better than MobileMe, maybe like MobileMac.

I never liked MacBook Air and still don't. iPod is probably their best brand name.

MacPro is solid too.
 
L3X said:
they will come up with something better than MobileMe, maybe like MobileMac.

I never liked MacBook Air and still don't. iPod is probably their best brand name.

MacPro is solid too.
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The product makes the name. Everyone complained about MacBook. if Creative came out with a product called iPod, it would have died out years ago. did you know that Creative had an mp3 player called the nano?

xerox is a weird name if you think about it. now, it's just commonplace.
 
i wouldn't let .Mac touch my iPhone with a ten-foot pole. it is the quirkiest and most unreliable Apple service EVER. .Mac has mysteriously deleted iCal events when syncing, duplicated address book contacts, and wiped out important files in my iDisk. maybe my .Mac account is cursed, but i would be very against a wedding of .Mac and my iPhone.
 
uh itunes syncing wouldnt be a good idea at all. I have a 70GB library.

And im sure for the people that have stuff they havent "bought" that would not be a great idea out there.

for 100$/yr, apple should be, and can do better than what they have implemented now. I, like a lot of people have used the trial of .mac. Its really an over-glorified email account in its present state.
no thanks, i can get that free.
 
viggen61 said:
Naaahhh...

AppleLink...

(see how many REAL old timers are out there...)
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At the time, I subscribed to GEnie, they hosted AppleLink. I Joined Apple when they were offering eWorld.

I have always liked the lowercase "e" better than the lowercase"i"
 
MobileME is an absolutely horrible name. I really hope that's not the name they came up with. If so, they should fire the moron who came up with it.
 
hiimamac said:
$99.00 for life would be more accurate....or maybe free with purchase, 9.99 a year......this would get more .mac users in a flash.

.mac is pretty cool. I have my own website, so know what .mac is missing but for web gallery and insta-website, its pretty cool.

iweb needs more control, flash, (integrated) and ability to make your own templates like dreamweaver, iweb needs to be deeper but still easy to use.
Something tells me, .mac and iphone along with revamped iweb is in store.
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iWeb definitely needs to be updated, but that's more so a part of iLife than .Mac.

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).

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Syncing with Windows has my vote. :cool:
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That would be useful, but I hardly see why the name has to change from "mac" just for windows users.
 
New .Mac should INCLUDED with your iPhone service subscription!

The new .Mac should INCLUDED with your iPhone service subscription! We pay enough already!!!
 
If Joe is sitting at a Mac, then joe@mac describes that situation. For a Windows user it does not.
 
corygreenwell said:
I think you mean they've applied for a trademark for MOBILE ME, an application which is currently suspended.

The name sounds like something T-Mobile would have come up with...not Apple.
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No that would be tMOBILE ME... :D

Whether an app or a .mac update, who hear wants to have "Mobile Me" become apart of their daily lexicon?

Not Me.

Like I read from some other site's visitor post...

"...Mobile Me is not one of the names I'd choose -- sounds like Dr. Evil's sidekick (or his T-Mobile Sidekick?)..." :rolleyes:

If .mac had to be renamed, what are some of the choices people would like for that new name?
 
bretm said:
And on greed... Why do you think you have a cool iPod in your hand. Because of a company's greed. Because of a company of stockholders unified desire for success, which, in a company is determined by profits and wealth. That greed created your iPhone, your OSX, and your MacBook, etc. Greed isn't such a dirty word.
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Actually, it is a "dirty" word. Greed did not create the ipod. You are falsely equating the desire for success with greed. One can certainly be financially successful without being consumed by greed. If you need proof of this concept, look no further than Warren Buffet. Also, corporate greed, such as Apple maintaining huge profit margins is one thing, but personal greed is a whole other beast.
 
winterspan said:
Also, corporate greed, such as Apple maintaining huge profit margins is one thing, but personal greed is a whole other beast.
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Apple does not maintain huge profit margins.

That's a myth.

About half of manufacturers in the US have larger profit margins than Apple. Almost all the software makers have larger margins. Look at www.bizstats.com for a comparison across industries on profit margins.
 
.Mac is down for me

Might, or might not be related, but .Mac mail is down for me as of 11:11pm PST Friday, May 30th.
 

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