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.Mac update imminent?

johnnyjibbs said:
.Mac has always been pants to me - it's so OS 10.1. And every update seems to mean just a new release of Backup. Big deal.

The reason it has so few subscribers (let's face it, it has) is because there is no killer app. If Apple charged $50 a year for the web space and a decent killer non-web-based HTML editor for dummies (something I was hoping Pages would be able to handle) - something like Netscape Composer but that can produce non-proffessional but decent-looking personal websites - then I and many more Mac (and Windows) users would jump on board. Homepage is half-arsed and completely sucks and I can't afford or need Dreamweaver, etc. Know what I mean?

They need a complete overhaul and I'd part with the cash.
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Good points. But where do you get the idea that .Mac has so few subscribers? Is that fact or just your guess? The reason I ask is that a month or so ago, I was reading an article about the latest version of Quicken and the Intuit developers claimed that over half the Quicken users were also .Mac subscribers. (I'm pretty sure it said that but I can't find the story now.)

I did find this article, though:

http://dotmac.info/index.html/news/130/

.Mac subscribers top 400,000 in 2003. That's up from 180,000 in 2002 and down from the 2.2 million iTools subscribers Apple had.

Squire
 
Diatribe said:
How I hate those words... what does imminent mean? It's all relative. I want it NOW. 😀
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Precisely - the end of the world is also imminent, yet I doubt Jobs will be announcing that at MWSF or anytime soon! Mind you, some would argue that he already did this at WWDC, but I suppose that's a different discussion.... 😎
 
Squire said:
Good points. But where do you get the idea that .Mac has so few subscribers? Is that fact or just your guess? The reason I ask is that a month or so ago, I was reading an article about the latest version of Quicken and the Intuit developers claimed that over half the Quicken users were also .Mac subscribers. (I'm pretty sure it said that but I can't find the story now.)

I did find this article, though:

http://dotmac.info/index.html/news/130/

.Mac subscribers top 400,000 in 2003. That's up from 180,000 in 2002 and down from the 2.2 million iTools subscribers Apple had.

Squire
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Ok, so I didn't have any particular facts but I knew roughly what it was - that 0.5 million mark Apple (and iMeowbot) had quoted. I think this is low. (It may be half of Quicken because I doubt that has many customers either!!)

Considering there are, what, 25+ million OS X users, that's pretty poor show, right? Especially as many of those subscribers probably just get .Mac because they love anything Apple, not because they particularly feel it's a good deal. iTools was pre-Jaguar, right? When there were only about 2.2 million OS X users, right? You have to admit, when it was free, the percentage OS X users who used the service was considerably higher. But it's poor value for what you have to pay for, explaining why it has, in my view, low sales.

Apple, are you listening? 😀
 
Diatribe said:
How I hate those words... what does imminent mean? It's all relative. I want it NOW. 😀
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Hmm...I can't get to http://www.mac.com right now. All of the other Apple pages are loading correctly. Perhaps Apple is making the changes to .Mac right now.
 
~Shard~ said:
Precisely - the end of the world is also imminent, yet I doubt Jobs will be announcing that at MWSF or anytime soon! Mind you, some would argue that he already did this at WWDC, but I suppose that's a different discussion.... 😎
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Good point. Hell has frozen over a lot lately. But for Steve to announce a .mac change it would have to be a dramatic one... So I guess it'll be a silent update. (Hopefully soon)
 
JediL1 said:
Hmm...I can't get to http://www.mac.com right now. All of the other Apple pages are loading correctly. Perhaps Apple is making the changes to .Mac right now.
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They seem to be doing general network things today. The store was acting like that earlier too. .Mac is up but gagging. At the moment the banners on the "Member Central" pages still read August 2005.
 
JediL1 said:
Hmm...I can't get to http://www.mac.com right now. All of the other Apple pages are loading correctly. Perhaps Apple is making the changes to .Mac right now.
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Yeah, it is really slow right now, maybe they are doing something besides general maintenance... here's hoping.
 
Argghh!!!! Of all days! I can't get into .Mac and my mailbox is full. I am in casting for a DV short and I have tons of actors sending photos. Now things are bouncing and I can't even get in to change my email storage settings.

Come on Apple, It is 9:30am EST here...

.mac better come back online with 1GB for everyone.
 
sigamy said:
Argghh!!!! Of all days! I can't get into .Mac and my mailbox is full. I am in casting for a DV short and I have tons of actors sending photos. Now things are bouncing and I can't even get in to change my email storage settings.

Come on Apple, It is 9:30am EST here...

.mac better come back online with 1GB for everyone.
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Storage is cheap. I hope for your and all the other .mac subscribers' sake that Apple does indeed get with the times and offer increased space, it's really not that hard to do.
 
sigamy said:
Argghh!!!! Of all days! I can't get into .Mac and my mailbox is full. I am in casting for a DV short and I have tons of actors sending photos. Now things are bouncing and I can't even get in to change my email storage settings.

Come on Apple, It is 9:30am EST here...

.mac better come back online with 1GB for everyone.
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Can't access my email, either. Rats! And I need it NOW!
 
.mac

was having problems before too but it seems to be up and running smoothly again - for now.
works ok when you actually, by chance, get to the webmail page. other than that, it's a crapshoot.
 
.Mac still seems to be down at 11:09am. One can only hope that a Thursday update is in the works. Please Apple offer what the Mac fans want.
 
Yesterday I uploaded a 6.5 MB AIFF to my homepage Public folder so that it could be pulled off by someone else. It took 5 minutes to upload and then when I tried the link myself it unzipped (why did it zip?) as a Unix Executable file that nobody could do anything with. Would any tinkering they were doing yesterday have resulted in this? The reason I have .Mac is to transfer files, lets hope when it comes back online it will be a faster and more efficient system with a barnfull more storage.
 
Maybe we are only seeing network problems. I was having trouble this morning, but have had no problems since even while others cannot get in.
 
I finally got .mac to load (slowly), and this was at the bottom of the page:

We are experiencing slow network performance at this time. You may find that the .Mac services do not respond as quickly as usual and published HomePages may take more time to load than you are used to.
We expect normal performance to return shortly. Thank you for your patience.
Last Updated: <9/1/05>

Maybe they're preparing the servers for the update. Or maybe they're just doing standard maintenance or having some problems.
 
I just managed to get on to .Mac and this is what they say.
 

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.Mac Link appears dead - changes?

At 11:45 EST the .Mac link is dead and I can't access the service. Maybe thehre are changes in the works.
 
.Mac still dead

Okay, now I'm kinda mad. I haven't been able to access my homepage since tuesday, and now I can't even access the .Mac site. At least the email is still coming into Mail.app. Maybe we'll see some great new features to explain this interuption.
 
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