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.Mac update imminent?

I'll be eager to see what all this update will include. Perhaps I'll actually pick up a subscription, I've been tempted to the past couple of years!
 
~Shard~ said:
I'll be eager to see what all this update will include. Perhaps I'll actually pick up a subscription, I've been tempted to the past couple of years!
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If you do, save me some money and give me a referral 😀
 
uh... hello?

http://www.mac.com/learningcenter

??

do you people not see the libraries of tutorial videos .mac has? i mean, sure, you're all pro users, so you'll never need to watch any, but the stuff on logic and logic express is pretty handy.

😛

bet you didn't know about it...
 
The biggest thing that sucks about .Mac ...

... is that you have to pay the full fee up front instead of smaller chunks per month.

My $99 is coming due, and I'm sorry to say, but I'll just have to let .Mac go. A couple of medical bills will do that to you.
 
Does any one who has .Mac know if you can use Backup 2.0 or the upcoming 3.0 with a external USB 2.0 HD? I know it works with firewire, but since mine happens to be USB 2.0 and not Firewire, will I still be able to use backup to backup my stuff just incase anything major ever happens (for example, my main hard drive crashing, hopefully not but just incase)? If anyone can help, Please do, and thank you.

Besides that, $99 is steap, 60 dollars would be very decent though - 5 bucks a month I could prob. handle. Also, if I got a .Mac account one computer, could I cancel it on the computer and move it over to a new computer. Say if I get a new model in the upcoming year before it expires, can I deauthorize it on the current machine and authorize it on the new machine for the remainder of its subscription? Thanks again!
 
macus3r said:
http://www.mac.com/learningcenter

??

do you people not see the libraries of tutorial videos .mac has? i mean, sure, you're all pro users, so you'll never need to watch any, but the stuff on logic and logic express is pretty handy.

😛

bet you didn't know about it...
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Hey that's great 🙄 now all we need do is grab ourselves a copy of Logic Express to warrant the .Mac fee.

The so called update will probably be more storage, aka gMail style (but oh hang on that's free isn't it?) and some exclusive widgets, big deal like there aren't enough free ones floating around the web.
 
I pay for one reason only: So I can put up photos and movies for the folks back home to see. Sure, I can buy a cheap hosting plan and FTP them up to that, but the beauty of .Mac for me is the ease: I don't have to design my own pages. I can write html/css, but I don't have the time. With .Mac I can just upload directly from iPhoto. Stating what we all know, but surely that's worth the price? Of course, cheaper would be nice 🙂

I haven't run out of disk space yet, but when I do I guess I, too, will start complaining about the size, though.

Oh, and when I'm choosing a photo for a Homepage menu, unless I select one of the first, Safari crashes. I hope that's fixed. Don't know if it's a Safari or .Mac server issue.
 
MacPhreak said:
It better be something very good, very soon, otherwise...meh. I have four days left until mine expires, and I have no plans to renew it. $100 doesn't buy much. $36 one time at Freeshell.org gets you 300mb for mail, webspace, and gopherspace (yes, people still use it!). .Mac looks pretty shabby.
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Its about mail, and syncing. The ability to sync a number of macs to the same Address book and bookmarks is well worth it to me.
 
MrSmith said:
Oh, and when I'm choosing a photo for a Homepage menu, unless I select one of the first, Safari crashes. I hope that's fixed. Don't know if it's a Safari or .Mac server issue.
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I have the same problem. I end up using Firefox a lot of times to edit my .mac homepage. Ironic huh?
 
I couldn't live without .Mac as it is right now. I use it all the time. Of course updates would be great. More space would mean me adding some H.264 movies. I'm anxious to see what comes.
 
agree with you! and I think it's quite worth the money - really nice way of sharing pics and vidz I think. Nice with a download-function for smaller things etc. But agree with U others about the iDisk...boost it to 500 MB please. They boosted it to 250 MB not long ago - I think they will continue to gradually boost the iDisk. Not as fast as we want though 😉

pigwin32 said:
I like some of the stuff .Mac provides and I do use my email account. Getting in early when it was a *free* service I managed to secure a decent email address. I also like the ability to throw some photos together into a web page. When it was launched there was nothing that compared and even now it is still a great feature. But I believe the price is too steep and surely something as fundamental as Backup should be provided as part of the operating system. Plus the storage provided is ridiculous if Apple intends .Mac to be a backup location.

To make .Mac awesome, give a free 10MB email only .Mac account with every Mac. Give Backup away with every Mac. Sell a premium .Mac account that includes web hosting and a decent amount of storage. Do a .Mac groups for community discussions.

Frankly I could care less about free games - there's really just no sense of community with .Mac.
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Well if it's photo sharing or a blog page or whatever that you want you could check out Yahoo's new
360 Degrees
It's one of many free services that is similar to .Mac plus you also get a free email account and lots more storage space.
 
I guess that the .mac marketing team still believes that we are in 2001 and that 40GB hard drives are $299 each, I mean $99 for 250MB and a bunch of services/products that anyone can get for free or for the fraction of that price everywhere else is a joke, they'll have to offer MUCH more space and better (quality products better than and ancient antivirus which BTW are all useless on a Mac), reliable (at least working well with Tiger and faster than a crappy webdav account) services for half or a quarter of the price to get my (and everyone else I know) attention, for instance, spymac.con will offer tomorrow a similar service with 9GB (yes 9GB and I'm not mistyping anything), multiple Macs sync, blogs with newsletters, journals, multimedia gallery with picture movie, podcast support, iPhoto gallery plugin, FTP, artwork store, 3GB email account, iTunes plugin, etc. for just $25 a year!!!! (in fact they gave 15 months for $25 to previous users)
 
iGary said:
Three Macs all synced in beautiful harmony = worth $99.00 to this cowboy.


It's all I use it for.
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well i'm the same as you m8, but I don't even pay the $99 - if you sign up for a trial ,Mac account every 3 months or so, it resyncs beautifully! They actually disabled this in the trial a while back, but it works great now
 
They would have themselves an incredibly popular service if they did the followoing:

- new homepage templates
- sub-domains
- 1 GB idisk
- tighter integration of ical into the website
- change albums within iPhoto
- send iCards from within mail
- integrate iTunes into .mac
- more sync options for Apple software
- faster idisk
- better backup

Ok they are doing one of those. That's a start I guess. 🙄
 
This is what Apple should partner with Google on...

There's been all this talk about apple/google partnering on iTunes, but I really don't get that. This, however I would get. Apple doesn't have an "MSN" like portal (say what you want, but a lot of non-geek types like MSN) and their .Mac service is good for sync'ing e-mail addresses and the like, but for system backup? Just not there. As someone else stated, 250MB is not even really enough to host podcasts and the like.

Google on the other hand, has figured out how to allocate 2.5GB worth of storage for me, has provided a really good web-mail client that I can access via POP, and provides a very good portal (google.com/ig) that even geek-types seem to like. Spruce up the portal a bit, add WebDAV access to the 2.5GB of storage, and provide me a homepage that links to a portion of that space as well and they've got something they could sell even to windows users. Add Sync capabilities from OS/X and you've got an absolutely KILLER service that people would have no issue shelling out for.

So how about it Apple? Hook up with Google, show 'em a bit your magic, and together build a service that really is compelling enough to pay for. And oh, if it makes them happy, let them sell some iTunes music from the Google home page. Seems stupid to me, but whatever.
 
basehart said:
As much as I'd like to sign my wife and kids up for a .mac account I can't take advantage of the family program because I can't add my existing account.

This means we've been holding off until they allow existing users to add their existing accounts to a family pack.

If I had a joeblow322@mac.com type user name it'd be no big deal - just sign up for a new one - but the one I have is kinda unique and I don't want to lose it.

Any idea when existing accounts can be merged in with new family accounts?
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YOu have to wait until your account is expiring and then you can sign up with a family account
 
I have never even been remotely interested in .mac... What's the big deal? Why do people care about this service? It seems overpriced.. I must be missing something.. 😕
 
SmpDigital said:
spymac.com will offer tomorrow a similar service with 9GB (yes 9GB and I'm not mistyping anything), multiple Macs sync, blogs with newsletters, journals, multimedia gallery with picture movie, podcast support, iPhoto gallery plugin, FTP, artwork store, 3GB email account, iTunes plugin, etc. for just $25 a year!!!! (in fact they gave 15 months for $25 to previous users)
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You beat me to it. 😀 I have a dotmac account and love isync and the ease of Homepage, but as stated a million times, not enough space. I'm going to fork out the $25 just to see what it's like. You never know I just may not renew my dotmac account later this Sept.
 
Why does Apple even bother anymore? Seriously. The iDisk is such an embarrassment to them in size at this point. Users should be getting AT LEAST 512MB. Anything below that, IMHO is a joke and may as well be providing them with 1.44MB
 
Get a flickr account instead if you want to show photos

MrSmith said:
I pay for one reason only: So I can put up photos and movies for the folks back home to see. Sure, I can buy a cheap hosting plan and FTP them up to that, but the beauty of .Mac for me is the ease: I don't have to design my own pages. I can write html/css, but I don't have the time. With .Mac I can just upload directly from iPhoto. Stating what we all know, but surely that's worth the price? Of course, cheaper would be nice 🙂
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Or you could get a flickr account for free. But hey, its from Apple. It must be good, right?
 
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