.Mac Storage Increase

[snahabed]

The best part to me is that .mac mail attachments can now be up to 10MB.

I had to open a bloody yahoo account just to receive email over 3MB before!

Yay

 

[brossow]

Tell me when they give me 2 gigs for email and storage and I'll look into .mac.

You can get it right now. You just have to pay for it.

 

[Ho Train]

hmmm...more space...I like.

It drives me nuts to hear people compare .mac with things like g-mail. In my opinion, you need to compare apples with apples. Sure, .Mac only provides you with 250 mb of webspace, but the functionality that I get with .Mac (posting pictures, movies, journals) and the ease of use (making webpages has never been easier in my opinion). I could find cheaper alternatives but those alternatives usually involves a little bit more elbow grease to get things running.

And honestly...what am I going to do with 1000MB of webspace that I can't do with 250 MB? OOO...I know...I'll upload a DVD rip of Nemo...

 

[bcsmith]

Now if Apple could find some way to integrate it all, that could be compelling. Like a 1-stop shop for it all. As it is currently presented, .mac is a hodgepodge of different features, none of which really stand on their own.

How is it not integrated? It's all at one website with a nice sidebar to pick the function you want. Also, most of the features are integrated into the appropriate app on your computer - iPhoto, Backup, Mail, Finder, etc.

Plus, Apple has said that it intends on further integrating .Mac into Tiger.

Just my $0.02

-- Ben

 

[DELKIN]

.mac

I use .mac and find the integration with the many apple programs nice. One thing I really wish they would increase is the size of emails allowed. They have this capped below 4meg per email and it sucks becasue you can't send a high res photo. I have inquired about increasing the amount and they don't offer any options there. I am still a subscriber and will remain so but as nice as the storage increase is I wish they would have addressed this issue.

 

[zim]

they have also increased the add on email only accounts to 50MB

 

[pgwalsh]

But that's $43 per MONTH, right? For a grand total of $516 per year. Vs $8.25 a month with .mac.

As always, my 2¢.

Right, but it includes broadband access. So factor in how much broadband is and then redue your calculations.

 

[Elan0204]

It's interesting that this announcement came right after the big September renewal period. From reading through this thread, it looks like a few of you decided not to renew. Maybe Apple was losing a lot of .Mac subscribers, so they made this quick increase in storage as a way to hopefully slow the bleeding.

 

[nacl99]

the better deal

A much better thing then a .mac account is just buying your own hosting.

This is one of many cheap hosts out there. and for a mere $6.95/mo (host) + 8.95/yr (domain) you can get all of the following

• Your own Domain. lastname.com if you like
• not 1 but 1000 pop3 or imap email addresses @lastname.com
• 2 gig of space, that you can FTP to, and even setup a folder in OSX to link and connect automaticaly

Thats just a start, you also get spam assassin, and of course a much larger number of options for your website hosting.

This seems like the answer? Sure it doesn't do everything, but most of the key features of .mac are there.

 

[strngwys]

It's interesting that this announcement came right after the big September renewal period. From reading through this thread, it looks like a few of you decided not to renew. Maybe Apple was losing a lot of .Mac subscribers, so they made this quick increase in storage as a way to hopefully slow the bleeding.

yeah it would have made more sense to roll this out in August.

 

[MattG]

Nice

Another good reason to renew my account again next year.

 

[gskiser]

True, but what justifies spending $100 more on .Mac

But that's $43 per MONTH, right? For a grand total of $516 per year. Vs $8.25 a month with .mac.

As always, my 2¢.

True. You're right in that it is a monthly charge. However, $516 per year gets me internet access and 7x the online storage space. You've got to have internet access anyway to use .Mac. Given the features my ISP provides as part of their regular internet access, would I tack on an extra $100 (or $8.25/month) for .Mac?

Apple has to realize that we're not going to give them our money simply because they're apple. Sure we love apple, and love our macs, but Apple still has to offer me something of value and that is competetive in order for me to shell out my money. As I said before, its somewhat of an insult to their customers because it is so overpriced for what you are actually getting.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I actually went ahead and upgraded my account to 1024 MB total storage. I allocated 15 MB to email and 1009 MB to iDisk. I did this because I like .Mac so much and I was waiting for the 1024 MB upgrade to become cheaper.

 

[MacPhreak]

Right, but it includes broadband access. So factor in how much broadband is and then redue your calculations.

He's paying $516/year for broadband & webspace & I'll give him $75/year for the .mac disk space. I'm docking the $25 because you don't get sync, backup, iApp integration, which is definately worth $25/year; probably more like $50, but I digress...

$516-75=$441/year for broadband only, or $36.75/mo.

If you must:
$516-100=$416/year, or $34.67/mo.
But as I said, I don't think this is a fair calculation, since you are giving up a bunch of .mac functionality.

Personally, I think if your broadband is more than $30-35/mo, you're paying too much. My 1mb down/256k up DSL is $25/mo. Typical cable here is 2mb down/256k up & is $26/month for the first 6 months, then to $35/mo IIRC. Faster cable is available...for a price.

 

[BornAgainMac]

I use .mac and find the integration with the many apple programs nice. One thing I really wish they would increase is the size of emails allowed. They have this capped below 4meg per email and it sucks becasue you can't send a high res photo. I have inquired about increasing the amount and they don't offer any options there. I am still a subscriber and will remain so but as nice as the storage increase is I wish they would have addressed this issue.

Try it now. It's 10 mb.

 

[Bendit]

For everyone who is saying that Apple should have 1GB of storage because everyone has it:

Google and other mails services can offer 1GB of storage because they compress everything. 1GB of email text can be compressed to a ridiculously small amount.

The iDisk is for files which cannot be practically compressed. It is 250mb of REAL storage accessible via the finder. It can not be compared to gmail storage.

The only difference I want to see with .Mac is the price cut 50% and the webmail interface improved. It is very slow and graphic heavy.

 

[virividox]

OOoooo maybe i will get .mac this year i never found 100 megs enough

 

[Bendit]

Oh and another thing: My .Mac account expires this week and I have no plans to renew it. Spotty email access, slow iDisk access and $100 a year doesn't do it for me. Owning a mac is far too expensive (yearly iLife updates, OS X updates, .Mac) for me.

 

[edesignuk]

If I didn't have so many people/websites with my .Mac address I'd drop it, but I think I may have to wait until next year now. I need some time to move everything over to another account (Gmail! + got loads of my own webspace)

 

[j_maddison]

hmmm...more space...I like.

It drives me nuts to hear people compare .mac with things like g-mail. In my opinion, you need to compare apples with apples. Sure, .Mac only provides you with 250 mb of webspace, but the functionality that I get with .Mac (posting pictures, movies, journals) and the ease of use (making webpages has never been easier in my opinion). I could find cheaper alternatives but those alternatives usually involves a little bit more elbow grease to get things running.

And honestly...what am I going to do with 1000MB of webspace that I can't do with 250 MB? OOO...I know...I'll upload a DVD rip of Nemo...

Seeing as you like to compare Apples to Apples, just thought I'd help keep you being a nut! joke

Spymac offer 3Gig of e mail storage and many of the sync functions of isync, you also get 250mb of online storage as standard (idisk type service),and you get blogging (personally not a fan of blogging, but some people like it). So pretty much the only thing you lose is the ability to publish a .mac website (which doesnt interest me in the slightest), and for me being a uk person, i dont get so annoyed all the USA only offers that Apple are keen to advertise on their .mac homepage OH and it costs an extortionate $39.99 a year! Now how do you like them Apples

jay

 

[narco]

I've been a .mac subscriber since the beginning, mostly because when it was still iTools and FREE, I made my .mac address my default one. The only reason I hadn't transfered it to a different address is for two reasons:

a) Too much hassle.
b) Having an @mac.com address flaunts my OS of choice.

250MB is good, but I need better. .Mac has been getting better with the email servers being down, but I need:

The ability to send LARGER file attachments.

I'm sure most will agree with me. What is it now, 3MB? Pshh!

Also, I'd like to be able to use my own design programs for my homepage.mac.com space. Whenever I put an index.html file in the right directory, it says "file not found". Anyone know why?

.narco

 

[brossow]

Storage? 250MB? No offense, but I can buy that in a KEYCHAIN.

But can your keychain share web pages and files with anyone in the world, 24/7/365? I didn't think so.

 

[Steven1621]

Nice. Now maybe some day they'll get it up to 1GB...

I'm happy.

gmail's GB is certainly nice, but essentially overkill in the end. most emails are 2-4k each. 250 MB is more than enough for users...

 

[narco]

Seeing as you like to compare Apples to Apples, just thought I'd help keep you being a nut! joke

Spymac offer 3Gig of e mail storage and many of the sync functions of isync, you also get 250mb of online storage as standard (idisk type service),and you get blogging (personally not a fan of blogging, but some people like it). So pretty much the only thing you lose is the ability to publish a .mac website (which doesnt interest me in the slightest), and for me being a uk person, i dont get so annoyed all the USA only offers that Apple are keen to advertise on their .mac homepage OH and it costs an extortionate $39.99 a year! Now how do you like them Apples

jay

Sounds great, when it actually WORKS. Plus, having an @spymac.com name isn't the same. The word "spy" just bugs me, and it's not a good word to throw around on the internet.

Plus, honestly, who needs 3 GIGS of email? I've saved every email since '98, and I get a lot of PDF, TIFF, JPG attachments every day from my work and I have barely broken the 3gig mark. They might as well offer a terabyte of storage because they know the average user isn't going to use all of that.

.narco

 

[t300]

I wish .Mac was more of a community than a service. I wish there were message boards, more specials and discounts, FREE things, Apple Store exlusives for members, etc. I really wish that there were exclusive .Mac gatherings at Apple Stores. THAT would be the coolest. Anyone else like that idea?