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.Mac update imminent?
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Wow do people actually still buy .mac. I mean it was fine back when they called it iTools and it was free, but I can't see why anyone would pay so much for it. Maybe 10 bucks a year for basic email, web page, and idisk, but any more than that and you might as well just register your own domain and sign up for a cheap hosting plan.
pimentoLoaf said:
Are you using one of the Microsoft products (Word or Excel) on the Mac that might get something. Otherwise I don't get why a Mac user would want virus protection. Your PC friends should have their own protection, so why scan for _their_ PC problems twice?
What? Your trying to be nice. 😉
Anyway, have you considered ClamAV?
srobert
macrumors 68020
As everybody else said already: More, much more disk space please!
I would also like to add: More speed! .mac is extremely unresponsive (unless you sync a copy on your desktop but that's cheating ^_^). I'd also like to be able to run vBulletin or some other form of forum on .mac. Plus, better spam filtering on Apple's side wouldn't hurt. I'm tired of receiving those rolex ads. 😀
For now, the the main reason I stick to .mac despite the price is that I don't want to go through all the trouble of changing email address and risk losing contact with old online friends.
I would also like to add: More speed! .mac is extremely unresponsive (unless you sync a copy on your desktop but that's cheating ^_^). I'd also like to be able to run vBulletin or some other form of forum on .mac. Plus, better spam filtering on Apple's side wouldn't hurt. I'm tired of receiving those rolex ads. 😀
For now, the the main reason I stick to .mac despite the price is that I don't want to go through all the trouble of changing email address and risk losing contact with old online friends.
iWork
I hope they're planning to include support for their own iWork app. I think it's weird that they support Word right now and haven't even included a supplimental update for their own word processing/presentation suite.
I hope they're planning to include support for their own iWork app. I think it's weird that they support Word right now and haven't even included a supplimental update for their own word processing/presentation suite.
aswitcher
macrumors 603
If they put out a backup that will back up my entire computer to my external drive with speed and ease, even with its multiple accounts, then I'll be pleased.
Selective backups critical data from computer, ipods etc to .Mac better than it does now then thats another bonus.
I agree, 250 meg to 1 gig would be the way to go to really make the account worth it.
As for widgets, again nice if they are a bit more advanced.
Virex in some form needs to come back...
Selective backups critical data from computer, ipods etc to .Mac better than it does now then thats another bonus.
I agree, 250 meg to 1 gig would be the way to go to really make the account worth it.
As for widgets, again nice if they are a bit more advanced.
Virex in some form needs to come back...
faster iDisk, PLEASE. it takes forever to upload even small files.
And it seems petty, but new designs for the public folder download homepage... the only two you can choose are from at least 5 years ago based on the front of the old g4's. They look crap and that's what my clients have to look at to download stuff.
And it seems petty, but new designs for the public folder download homepage... the only two you can choose are from at least 5 years ago based on the front of the old g4's. They look crap and that's what my clients have to look at to download stuff.
jaw04005
macrumors 601
mikeyrogers said:
It's called iWork 2.0 and will be released in January at MacWorld Expo! 😉
Just kidding. .Mac is in desperate need of a revamp. Currently, many Tiger users have been unable to sync for months because of some type of server-side problem with the .Mac syncronization server. So many subscribers have complained on a daily basis over at Apple's .Mac discussion board, and have yet to resolve their sync issues. 🙁
I shared their frustration, however I was able to convince a .Mac engineer to log-in to my account and fix the problem. Other subscribers have not been as fortunate. If it wasn't for syncing and my .Mac email address, I would drop the service in a heartbeat.
hyperpasta
macrumors 6502a
Does Apple even care?
If Apple made .Mac free, had 1 GB of eMail space with no ads, Shared the eMail space with your iDisk, sped up the iDisk service, and removed gimmicks like iCards and Virex, I would get it. But to stay a $99 a year service they need to start giving out lots of space and/or domain names. They also need to improve/modify old services, such as HomePage templates.
If Apple made .Mac free, had 1 GB of eMail space with no ads, Shared the eMail space with your iDisk, sped up the iDisk service, and removed gimmicks like iCards and Virex, I would get it. But to stay a $99 a year service they need to start giving out lots of space and/or domain names. They also need to improve/modify old services, such as HomePage templates.
Some_Big_Spoon
macrumors 6502a
Some_Big_Spoon
macrumors 6502a
And there in lies half the profit margin for .Mac, people who have .Mac email addresses that Apple holds ransome, the other half being the gullible folks that i see getting talked into buying it retail at the Apple Stores.
srobert said:
How else...
...can you sync up your home computer, your laptop and 2 work computers? Linux can't do it. Windows sure can't. I'm sorry, but .Mac is freaking great. I don't like the price either, but I only paid $69 last year, and that's totally reasonable. $99 isn't. Know what? I paid it this year anyway. Why? Because I knew they would either lower the price or add great new features soon enough. Have some faith, they'll make it right.
...can you sync up your home computer, your laptop and 2 work computers? Linux can't do it. Windows sure can't. I'm sorry, but .Mac is freaking great. I don't like the price either, but I only paid $69 last year, and that's totally reasonable. $99 isn't. Know what? I paid it this year anyway. Why? Because I knew they would either lower the price or add great new features soon enough. Have some faith, they'll make it right.
Timothy said:
Goodbye old friend .mac
I have had an account for several years now and am not going to renew this time around. I like .mac but it is way overpriced, even with the so called "freebies" I like the ease of sync but for $6.95 a month on another I get 5 gigs of space and two domain names and all sorts of subnet names, email accounts and so on and so forth. If mac would start offering domain names and getting in line with other service providers price wise, I would keep it. In fact, if they came down to $60 a year i would keep it just for the isync aspect of the site.
Cheers
I have had an account for several years now and am not going to renew this time around. I like .mac but it is way overpriced, even with the so called "freebies" I like the ease of sync but for $6.95 a month on another I get 5 gigs of space and two domain names and all sorts of subnet names, email accounts and so on and so forth. If mac would start offering domain names and getting in line with other service providers price wise, I would keep it. In fact, if they came down to $60 a year i would keep it just for the isync aspect of the site.
Cheers
tjwett
macrumors 68000
i'm hoping this update will be meant to satisfy the long time paying members who adopted early. my iTools email address quickly became my main address so when the free "iTools" became known as the not-so-free .Mac i jumped on board right away and have been paying ever since. my membership is set to auto-renew in mid October, which i think is around the same time all of the early adopters' accounts renew. funny to hear about this because just this week i decided i will not be keeping my .Mac membership. i was fairly happy with it for a while but lately the bandwidth restriciton along with the major speed decrease has made me want to cut my losses and get out while i still can. i have 2GB hosting with Media Temple with a lot more features and much better support for half the price. hey, if Apple pull out a something substantial maybe i will hang onto my .Mac, as of now i'm bailing.
i'm gonna expire in a couple of months, main feature that will convince to stay on: price drop, number two feature: more storage
bubbalwz
macrumors member
basehart said:
My account expired and I just logged in and this is what I get:
Full .Mac account or Family Pack master account?
Reactivate your .Mac account or Family Pack master account, or upgrade your .Mac account to a .Mac Family Pack account . With a Family Pack you get a master account with 250 MB of combined email and iDisk storage, plus four Family Pack sub-accounts with 100 MB of combined storage each.
So, come expiration time, let it run out, then do this.
BWhaler
macrumors 68040
I agree with the thoughts here.
While .Mac's integration to iLife and syncing Macs is worth 100 bucks to me and my family--it keeps things simple for the non-techies in the house--the amount of features, notably hard drive space, is pathetic and out-of-date.
Plus, it would be nice if they got the bugs out of syncing and iDisk.
I hope Apple take .Mac to the next level. I suspect we are just going to see a incremental bump.
While .Mac's integration to iLife and syncing Macs is worth 100 bucks to me and my family--it keeps things simple for the non-techies in the house--the amount of features, notably hard drive space, is pathetic and out-of-date.
Plus, it would be nice if they got the bugs out of syncing and iDisk.
I hope Apple take .Mac to the next level. I suspect we are just going to see a incremental bump.
BWhaler
macrumors 68040
WOW...Forget .Mac and the invevitable lackluster upgrade.
400 BUG FIXES TO TIGER IN 10.4.3.
Now, that's what I am talking about. Tiger is shamefully buggy, and it looks like there is hope that the next iteration that Tiger will finally be commercial quality.
I know every OS has bugs, but Tiger is way above the line of acceptable. I hope Apple really takes their time with .3 and gets Tiger to the quality level worthy of Apple.
400 BUG FIXES TO TIGER IN 10.4.3.
Now, that's what I am talking about. Tiger is shamefully buggy, and it looks like there is hope that the next iteration that Tiger will finally be commercial quality.
I know every OS has bugs, but Tiger is way above the line of acceptable. I hope Apple really takes their time with .3 and gets Tiger to the quality level worthy of Apple.
Counterfit
macrumors G3
Bandwidth restriction? It must be pretty high, because I haven't hit it, and I doubt Jonas has either.tjwett said:
As for me, I'm hoping I can get another referral, as I got one last year, which really helped me justify the cost. Of course, syncing my PB with my parents iMac, and my beige G3 (when it works 🙁) is great, as are the photo albums, and it's also where I host my avatars for various fora. What I'd like to see is: 500MB space, support for PHP/etc., and a subdomain, like http://counterfit.mac.com
.mac + address book URL syncing = broken under Tiger
If .mac is indeed about to be upgraded, I sure hope they address the Address Book URL syncing that has broken under Tiger. I have visited the Apple discussion forums on a number of occasions only to find out that Apple acknowledges the problem and suggests moving URL's from the URL field in Address Book to the notes field where they will be synced across note fields. I don't see how this is a viable solution as the real point in syncing the URL field in address book between multiple computers is so they will also show up as Address Book bookmarks in Safari. I have been a .mac subscriber from the beginning, always giving Apple the benefit of the doubt that they would continue to improve and make it better. In some cases they have made great strides, although not necessarily at the pace that we all might like to see and in other cases, they have taken a few steps back. After this last year however, I'm seriously considering not renewing when my subscription ends mid October if they can't at least fix this annoying problem. It bothers me that one of the most beneficial aspects of .mac that I'm paying money for (to keep my Address Books in sync) isn't really working as advertised under Tiger.
If .mac is indeed about to be upgraded, I sure hope they address the Address Book URL syncing that has broken under Tiger. I have visited the Apple discussion forums on a number of occasions only to find out that Apple acknowledges the problem and suggests moving URL's from the URL field in Address Book to the notes field where they will be synced across note fields. I don't see how this is a viable solution as the real point in syncing the URL field in address book between multiple computers is so they will also show up as Address Book bookmarks in Safari. I have been a .mac subscriber from the beginning, always giving Apple the benefit of the doubt that they would continue to improve and make it better. In some cases they have made great strides, although not necessarily at the pace that we all might like to see and in other cases, they have taken a few steps back. After this last year however, I'm seriously considering not renewing when my subscription ends mid October if they can't at least fix this annoying problem. It bothers me that one of the most beneficial aspects of .mac that I'm paying money for (to keep my Address Books in sync) isn't really working as advertised under Tiger.
Here we go again: September dotmac update
Since the beginning of dotmac Apple has "updated" the service in September. They started charging for iTools in September which means that most people have their annual subscription expiring this month.
By announcing some hot new spices around this time each year they hope to convince people that their not-so-used service actually is worth the cash. I fall for it each year and I will probably do so again. But this time it will take more than before. iDisk has only gone from 100 MB to 250 MB during a time where standard internal hard disks on Apple's computer have increased with about a 10-fold. Since the start of iDisk digital photography has taken off and now most people have digital videofilms that they want to share. We need a new dotmac. Give us Gigs of iDisk space. Give us faster connectivity. Give us a reliable service with a Finder that does not timeout when using iDisk. Give us the whole range of services that a $20/year webhotel does including ftp, stats, etc, etc. Give us a domain names other than the nerdy "http://homepage.mac.com/N.N".
Since the beginning of dotmac Apple has "updated" the service in September. They started charging for iTools in September which means that most people have their annual subscription expiring this month.
By announcing some hot new spices around this time each year they hope to convince people that their not-so-used service actually is worth the cash. I fall for it each year and I will probably do so again. But this time it will take more than before. iDisk has only gone from 100 MB to 250 MB during a time where standard internal hard disks on Apple's computer have increased with about a 10-fold. Since the start of iDisk digital photography has taken off and now most people have digital videofilms that they want to share. We need a new dotmac. Give us Gigs of iDisk space. Give us faster connectivity. Give us a reliable service with a Finder that does not timeout when using iDisk. Give us the whole range of services that a $20/year webhotel does including ftp, stats, etc, etc. Give us a domain names other than the nerdy "http://homepage.mac.com/N.N".
mox358
macrumors 6502a
Counterfit said:
I have to say thats one of the best, and most easily implemented things they could do to really help the service. I admit I love my .Mac account even though i agree its a tad pricey. Like everybody else has said, I don't want to change my email, and the syncing saves me so much time. But the biggest reason is the integration with the Mac OS. It feels like an extension of the OS, as opposed to other services which just feel like "services".
But as somebody else said, maybe it *should* be part of the OS if it really feels that way. Either way, I still use and enjoy my .Mac account, and I'll be keeping it regardless.