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.Mac Update Coming at August 7th Media Event?
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10GB and Time Machine integration would do it for me, that would be perfect, I'm not exactly a major fan of external hard drives, having something like that would be perfect.
useless
.mac is useless. When 10.5 is released and backup in .mac is useless the whole program wont be worth any money. There are better options (free) out there for everything listed except maybe the sync but you can get apps at more then 1/2 the price that do the same thing.
Make it free / or include it with ilife
no one wants to be stuck paying $99 a year for 2gb of email storage/ disk space when you get nearly 3 @ gmail for free.
.mac is useless. When 10.5 is released and backup in .mac is useless the whole program wont be worth any money. There are better options (free) out there for everything listed except maybe the sync but you can get apps at more then 1/2 the price that do the same thing.
Make it free / or include it with ilife
no one wants to be stuck paying $99 a year for 2gb of email storage/ disk space when you get nearly 3 @ gmail for free.
Waiting, waiting, waiting
I've got $75 in Apple gift cards that I've been waiting to spend.
Will it be an improved .Mac, Leopard in October or something surprisingly new that will make me open my wallet too?
I've got $75 in Apple gift cards that I've been waiting to spend.
Will it be an improved .Mac, Leopard in October or something surprisingly new that will make me open my wallet too?
Remote Deskto Feature for .Mac
Just a thought, but it would be nice if the Leopard Remote Desktop iChat feature which was scrapped showed up as a .Mac feature. I would really like to take control of my fathers Mac when he gets in trouble.
Just a thought, but it would be nice if the Leopard Remote Desktop iChat feature which was scrapped showed up as a .Mac feature. I would really like to take control of my fathers Mac when he gets in trouble.
Inflexible...
Yes, the design of .mac accounts needs work. I pay for an account for my daughter's family so they could publish stuff about their 3 kids.
But, she is getting a divorce. I called Apple and they said that I could not change the account name. Rather, I would have to let the account expire and start a new one...
...sounds like the system was designed by the same people who designed the 6-digit date fields (in databases) that led to the Y2K fiasco.
On another note, here is a "Big" picture of a MultiTouch GUI, circa 1988...
note the non-standard KB-- prolly leads to TTS (Tarsel Tunnel Syndrom)
me too, unfortunately I can not get my username back (forgot the pw) with a new .mac account
Yes, the design of .mac accounts needs work. I pay for an account for my daughter's family so they could publish stuff about their 3 kids.
But, she is getting a divorce. I called Apple and they said that I could not change the account name. Rather, I would have to let the account expire and start a new one...
...sounds like the system was designed by the same people who designed the 6-digit date fields (in databases) that led to the Y2K fiasco.
On another note, here is a "Big" picture of a MultiTouch GUI, circa 1988...
note the non-standard KB-- prolly leads to TTS (Tarsel Tunnel Syndrom)
.Mac for less
First of all, NOBODY should pay full retail for .Mac.
Amazon has .Mac for $79.99 with FREE SHIPPING, and I've seen it cheaper elsewhere. I always buy a boxed version (kind of stupid for a empty box with a code in it) instead of buying directly from Apple. FYI -- the version number doesn't matter; you're paying for 1 year of service!
First of all, NOBODY should pay full retail for .Mac.
Amazon has .Mac for $79.99 with FREE SHIPPING, and I've seen it cheaper elsewhere. I always buy a boxed version (kind of stupid for a empty box with a code in it) instead of buying directly from Apple. FYI -- the version number doesn't matter; you're paying for 1 year of service!
Well...I'll tell you this, I know they will not make it cheaper. Why? Because first of all I received a notice 2 weeks ago that I was up for renewal and my card would be charged $99 secondly their profits rely on it. Lastly it would be in their best interests to add new features and storage that won't cost them any more and keep the price the same. That way we have more features/storage(making it more appealing to potential buyers and keep the old members) and they keep the profits.
My subscription expires in 8 days. I hope these updates are pretty awesome. Otherwise, I probably will just go back to gmail.
Don't auto-renew
Turn off auto-renew and buy a copy from the web. Then, enter the serial number you get in the box. Same thing and you save money!
Turn off auto-renew and buy a copy from the web. Then, enter the serial number you get in the box. Same thing and you save money!
.mac is useless. When 10.5 is released and backup in .mac is useless the whole program wont be worth any money. There are better options (free) out there for everything listed except maybe the sync but you can get apps at more then 1/2 the price that do the same thing.
Make it free / or include it with ilife
no one wants to be stuck paying $99 a year for 2gb of email storage/ disk space when you get nearly 3 @ gmail for free.
It's far from useless for me. I work from home and as a freelancer at various agencies. Being able to log increasingly complex billable hours with iCal and sync it from several different computers has been a godsend for me and worth the price of admission alone. Invoice time is MUCH easier.
The iDisk has been helpful for similar reasons. Sometimes the sync process is a bit glitchy with it (hope that gets an update), but for the most part it works right.
Ditto with me.
I have been wondering what
has been doing with that data center? RDF generator expansion? Mac OS X Live, anyone?
Actually, wouldn't that be .MacLive ?
I just started my 60-day .Mac trial and I must say it's pretty nice. For free. The only features 99% of people will use is address/bookmark synching and the email. Now £70 a year for this is really not worth it when gmail does 80% of it for free.
Apple should have two tiers of .Mac. A free one, competing with gmail et all, with an email address (1-2Gb storage), synching and perhaps another 1-2Gb online storage. The second tier should include much bigger storage (40Gb?) and time machine support. I mean you could buy a 40Gb external drive for the price of .Mac for a year, everything else is pretty much offered by gmail and is free. Synching is a simple piece of software, nothing more.
.Mac simply isn't a cost-effective alternative to gmail/google calendars/google docs etc. Even Steve himself seems to realise that .Mac is pretty poor value for money by his comments to Walt.
Apple should have two tiers of .Mac. A free one, competing with gmail et all, with an email address (1-2Gb storage), synching and perhaps another 1-2Gb online storage. The second tier should include much bigger storage (40Gb?) and time machine support. I mean you could buy a 40Gb external drive for the price of .Mac for a year, everything else is pretty much offered by gmail and is free. Synching is a simple piece of software, nothing more.
.Mac simply isn't a cost-effective alternative to gmail/google calendars/google docs etc. Even Steve himself seems to realise that .Mac is pretty poor value for money by his comments to Walt.
What a pain in the ---. I'd rather auto-renew and pay the extra 10 bucks a year. I don't want to worry about ordering, waiting for shipment, loosing my email address, hassle of entering serial numbers and wondering when it won't work this way. It's like spending a dollar to save a dime.
This is very cool news. I'm expecting to be blown away tomorrow by new iMacs and new .Mac - with the latter being something in a completely different order to the current proposition.
What coverage is MR offering for the special event - will there be a MacRumorsLive update page as usual?
What coverage is MR offering for the special event - will there be a MacRumorsLive update page as usual?
I was done with my .mac membership three years ago. Was about as useful as a wet sponge at university. Was sloooooow and the perks were laughable...garageband loops...yay.
Got Gmail now, 2.8GB storage. Quick and well laid out.
I was incredibly irritated at losing my @mac.com email after using it way before I got .mac
Worst...product....EVER.
Got Gmail now, 2.8GB storage. Quick and well laid out.
I was incredibly irritated at losing my @mac.com email after using it way before I got .mac
Worst...product....EVER.
I use wet sponges all the time. They work good on cleaning up sticky messes or even washing a car.
Really? Great. Please enlighten me as I would like to quit paying for sync of all my computers, which includes my adress book and calendars and bookmarks and I'd also like any of these free services to work with real applications, not web based ad ridden ones. I cant wait for you to list all the free back to my mac services as well. and when I am forced to use web email - I'd like it to look and feel exactly like my local app. Where do I get this amazing free suite of utilities? Gmail? Yahoo? Get real.