TheChemist
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A big hole in which to drop all your money.
And yes, I am a paying .mac member, at the price they charge, Apple could give us more storage space (or real educational discounts).
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A big hole in which to drop all your money.
And yes, I am a paying .mac member, at the price they charge, Apple could give us more storage space (or real educational discounts).
🙂
cliffjumper68
macrumors regular
IIRC this was actually a negative context. Could be wrong. Anyone want to get the rest of the quote?
Shouldn't this be reason maybe not to except iMac updates tomorrow? Apple just said it wasn't about the iPhone or iPods. We understood this as it must be new macs.
There is still much reason to believe it is going to be new iMacs. But don't be shocked if it isn't.
It's how you look at it
My lunch just cost more than a month of .Mac service. I would rather skip going out to lunch one day a month than give up .Mac.
But that doesn't mean, I'm not hoping for some big improvements.
My lunch just cost more than a month of .Mac service. I would rather skip going out to lunch one day a month than give up .Mac.
But that doesn't mean, I'm not hoping for some big improvements.
Ow, what do I hear? gMail addon, exchange replacement, 10gb space, 10ms ping times, iLife update, half the price? huh... what where..
(just guessing).
(just guessing).
mongoos150
macrumors 6502a
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MacPossum
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freedevil
macrumors 6502a
new .mac will just replace that world class piece of crap web mail that is god awful with gmail 🙂
I honestly don't think at this time anyone could out due gmail. there is just to much free space, it's so quick & easy, & finally there spam blocking is the best in the business.
so why re-invent the wheel?
I just canceled my .mac about a month ago. If Jobs has a few aces up his sleeve I would come back if it was revolutionary and good bang for the buck.
I honestly don't think at this time anyone could out due gmail. there is just to much free space, it's so quick & easy, & finally there spam blocking is the best in the business.
so why re-invent the wheel?
I just canceled my .mac about a month ago. If Jobs has a few aces up his sleeve I would come back if it was revolutionary and good bang for the buck.
gusapple
macrumors 6502a
I am not convinced that a .mac update would be compelling for me personally, but I'd still like to see it happen. It's the same with the iMac - I am not in the market for an upgrade since I just got a new one about five months ago, but it would be nice to see something new.
Really, I'm just looking forward to anything new that will cause excitement. I will probably be in the market for a new laptop around the beginning of '08, but I don't expect there to be an update to that line tomorrow.
Really, I'm just looking forward to anything new that will cause excitement. I will probably be in the market for a new laptop around the beginning of '08, but I don't expect there to be an update to that line tomorrow.
papaburgundy
macrumors newbie
Since when was .mac mandatory??
There sure is a lot of complaining for a service that you have no obligation to purchase. As always, in America the free market will drive Apple to add features until it meets everyones expectations. Until then, stop whining.
There sure is a lot of complaining for a service that you have no obligation to purchase. As always, in America the free market will drive Apple to add features until it meets everyones expectations. Until then, stop whining.
manhattanboy
macrumors 6502a
LOL!
Apple is always too expensive ad a waste of money.
However, the mac account was great for typing my thesis...never had to worry about my files being stolen😛
I just wish they would give more storage.
What's the point of a music folder or movie folder if you can't store anything in them, seriously?
I constantly max out my storage and have to re drag crap back into one of my computers hard disks...frustratin 😡.
samh004
macrumors 68020
Don't they have 1 million users of .Mac ? I wont bother with the math.
All sounds good apart from that iPhone feature, not really very useful to all those users who live outside the US.
I remember in the first 2 years I was always given incentives to renew, then they just sort of forgot that I was even a member, and I haven't had any new free games, any new software, etc... although they gave me iBlog back in the day and I'm still using that, so that's helpful.
I can see something like this happening, perhaps through a special google deal ?
But iLife is free on new macs, are you suggesting free .Mac every time you buy a new mac too ?
Well it was mentioned in the last quarter's shareholders call that apple had set aside funds for a product transition.
I think moving .mac as it stands to being free, with say $69 a year for 10-20Gig of .mac storage integrated with backup/time machine would fit that bill.
I know of a few people that'd pay that kinda money to know that all their docs and digital photo's were secure. Plus iWeb and the other ilife/iwork packages that integrate with .mac are currently a bit of a joke when you have to fork out for .mac just to make em work.
For any current payed up members, they'd get the storage included up til end of current year.
edit: Just remembered there was news of a level 2 data centre that Apple bought around this time last year, fill it with xserve RAIDS, some google know how in massive redundant filesystems (GFS) and you'd have an awesome repository for all Mac Users "Precious Things". Apologies to all that don't get that reference, i feel sorry you've never experienced the League!
M.
I think moving .mac as it stands to being free, with say $69 a year for 10-20Gig of .mac storage integrated with backup/time machine would fit that bill.
I know of a few people that'd pay that kinda money to know that all their docs and digital photo's were secure. Plus iWeb and the other ilife/iwork packages that integrate with .mac are currently a bit of a joke when you have to fork out for .mac just to make em work.
For any current payed up members, they'd get the storage included up til end of current year.
edit: Just remembered there was news of a level 2 data centre that Apple bought around this time last year, fill it with xserve RAIDS, some google know how in massive redundant filesystems (GFS) and you'd have an awesome repository for all Mac Users "Precious Things". Apologies to all that don't get that reference, i feel sorry you've never experienced the League!
M.
.Mac too much for what little is offered
I use NetFronts as my hosting provider and for $119/year I get 50 POP3 mail accounts, FTP service, free tools, https, etc. I don't see a comparative value justifying $99/year for dot-mac. 😎
I use NetFronts as my hosting provider and for $119/year I get 50 POP3 mail accounts, FTP service, free tools, https, etc. I don't see a comparative value justifying $99/year for dot-mac. 😎
Kaptajn Haddock
macrumors 6502
I have been holding on using .Mac simply because the features are dated in every aspect, as well as the speed and usability of the thing.
I really hope they will come up with something cool - we all know about the remotecontrol coming with Leopard, but hopefully that isn't everything.
I really hope they will come up with something cool - we all know about the remotecontrol coming with Leopard, but hopefully that isn't everything.
That would be worthwhile buying for me (never have subscribed to .mac, so no idea what it's like right now).
I'm desperately trying to move away from having files on my systems, mainly so I can have a few systems in various places and remotely grab things like email etc without having to resort to webmail.
As much as I feel dirty for saying it, Windows Home Server *almost* completely fits the bill for me, minus any kind of email support. Give me exchange-like functionalty with .mac and I'll have exactly the setup I'm looking for.
bearda
macrumors 6502a
I haven't found an effective sync solution to replace .Mac yet. If there's a free replacement for it I'm all ears.
Predictions
I think with their "partnership" with Google, there is potential for some really interesting services. Also, I think it would make sense to use Google's back-end services with a much nicer Apple interface through .Mac
Something like this
Full integration of Google Docs and Sheets and iWork. I believe I read somewhere that Google wanted to market an add free version of Docs and Sheets to companies. .Mac would offer that payment and with iWork you would have off line access to everything you need.
I am sure they will improve iWeb, synching and will increase storage, but I think a full blown tie-in with Google, could have some really cool outcomes.
We'll see...
I think with their "partnership" with Google, there is potential for some really interesting services. Also, I think it would make sense to use Google's back-end services with a much nicer Apple interface through .Mac
Something like this
Full integration of Google Docs and Sheets and iWork. I believe I read somewhere that Google wanted to market an add free version of Docs and Sheets to companies. .Mac would offer that payment and with iWork you would have off line access to everything you need.
I am sure they will improve iWeb, synching and will increase storage, but I think a full blown tie-in with Google, could have some really cool outcomes.
We'll see...
Size of iDisk the other day
Last week I was putting some files on my iDisk and it was reading a size of 4 Terabytes. . . I was a but shocked and logged off, logged on again and it still was saying the same. I meant to take a screen shot but it skipped my mind. Could it be they would be upping the size?!? Was it just some fluke?!
Last week I was putting some files on my iDisk and it was reading a size of 4 Terabytes. . . I was a but shocked and logged off, logged on again and it still was saying the same. I meant to take a screen shot but it skipped my mind. Could it be they would be upping the size?!? Was it just some fluke?!
All I really want is a cheaper price, for now.
€99 is a joke, that service should be €29.
Three pricing tiers:
(i) €29 = Mac email address and 2GB storage.
(ii) €49 = Mac email address + more storage (around 10GB or so)
(iii) €99 = Mac email address + a lot more storage + a lot more bandwidth.
($ = $29, $49 & $99)
€99 is a joke, that service should be €29.
Three pricing tiers:
(i) €29 = Mac email address and 2GB storage.
(ii) €49 = Mac email address + more storage (around 10GB or so)
(iii) €99 = Mac email address + a lot more storage + a lot more bandwidth.
($ = $29, $49 & $99)