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Microsoft to Purchase Yahoo?

Diatribe said:
Yep, I made some of these comments. It would not cost Apple very much to enhance .mac especially at the enhanced cost/benefit ratio it would give Apple as more prople would sign up.
Examples are plenty, like an integrated web editable calendar, notes, easier calendar sharing, server side spam filter, push email, integration of .mac services into OS X like iCards in mail, more sync options, etc. or even a VOIP service with iChat.
It's really not hard to improve upon .mac and it is definitely not all about the iDisk space.
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Well, bring it on. I have been waiting for years to see significant change, only to see free services pass us by. I tell myself that I keep renewing .Mac because I like having my @mac.com email address and dont want to change all of the things I have hosted there but I know that it is mostly out of some sense of loyalty. I mean if a fanboy like me isn't buying it who is? :eek:

Also, doesn't Google already have some form of all of those improvements you suggest that could simply be made to integrate with the iApps?
 
Then again ...

Having said that, it would be good for Google to have a decent-sized competing ad network - Microsoft+Yahoo won't exactly be a match for Google+Doubleclick but it'll be better than nothing.
 
well this would suck. i kinda like the mac yahoo messanger its the only supported cross platforum messanger that supports video that my friends use.
 
RRK said:
Well, bring it on. I have been waiting for years to see significant change, only to see free services pass us by. I tell myself that I keep renewing .Mac because I like having my @mac.com email address and dont want to change all of the things I have hosted there but I know that it is mostly out of some sense of loyalty. I mean if a fanboy like me isn't buying it who is? :eek:

Also, doesn't Google already have some form of all of those improvements you suggest that could simply be made to integrate with the iApps?
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parhaps, the reason why we haven't seen any improvements to the service is because apple pulled programmers from the .mac team to help with the IPHONE team. ;)
 
a few yeara ago i used yahoo all the time,but they took out their science section in their news. Its back now but it was enough for me to stop using them all together.
 
glennyboiwpg said:
parhaps, the reason why we haven't seen any improvements to the service is because apple pulled programmers from the .mac team to help with the IPHONE team. ;)
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ha! good one! .mac has sucked for years. i can't justify paying $130Cnd a YEAR for a slow, sub-standard email/website thingy that pales compared to free/cheaper services. i'm sure it's a bit of a cash cow for apple, tho.

it'd be nice to see an enterprise version of .mac or at least a bump in the value offered thru .mac. at the moment it's just not there. perhaps when the rumored iweb pro is a reality, so will the enterprise .mac.
 
glennyboiwpg said:
parhaps, the reason why we haven't seen any improvements to the service is because apple pulled programmers from the .mac team to help with the IPHONE team. ;)
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Could there even possibly be a .Mac team? Is Jobs cracking the whip and making someone work 12 hour days to drag and drop some free Garage Band instruments in the iDisk and make a new iCard?
 
cshehadi said:
y'all know way more than me, but won't iPhone's OS X include Apple Mail and can't you use it to check your regular email account? iPhone may come with a free Yahoo account - but most won't use it? or am I polluting these boards with my ignorance. hope not.
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Yes, you are correct, the iPhone does support .Mac mail and others as well. The key that Apple wanted to exploit/promote was that it support Yahoo Mail, which is the most used e-mail service in the world.

Basically Yahoo Mail is to Mail what AIM is to chat .... #1.
 
furcalchick said:
yahoo email is also full of spam. worst mail filter out there.

and i use yahoo for their sports pages, i hope this isn't true...yahoo is still decent, and has one of the best im and fantasy sports out there....if ms takes over...
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I'm with you on Yahoo fantasy sports. It works like a champ with great features and has very nice support for the Mac.

I suppose I'll have to switch over to ESPN... but I have no idea how good they are, and if it's free.

I pretty much use Yahoo for my yahoo rss aggregation, maps, yellow pages, spam bucket and fantasy sports. I stopped using the search a long time ago.

I've been using Yahoo since about 1993? If Microsoft buys Yahoo this will probably be the death knell for me.

Yahoo and Mac support... no audio, poor video support, poor IM, "improved" mail doesn't support Safari... Back in the day, Yahoo was unix, pearl and java and had strong Mac support. Now, not so much.

Blame Terry Semel. A moron among morons.
 
Clive At Five said:
I wouldn't suggest Google pairing with .Mac, but I can think of some nice enhancements *I* would make...

More webspace, cheaper price, standard Apple reliability.

I think that sums it up for most of us.

-Clive
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We're talking to different business models here.

When was the last time you paid for anything from Google?

Alright already.
 
glennyboiwpg said:
parhaps, the reason why we haven't seen any improvements to the service is because apple pulled programmers from the .mac team to help with the IPHONE team. ;)
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What .mac team?

I'm guessing Apple has more people assigned to censoring support forums than they have working on .mac.
 
This merger could be likened to the merger of AMD and ATI. Two big named companies combined in an effort to take on Intel and gain greater dominance in the computer industry. Unfortunately, that same merger has erased the excess cash of now-AMD and will cause it to be slowed down in trying to accomplish its original goal. AMD isn't going to die obviously, but the merger has placed a notable amount of strain that is going to require years to recover from, great products not withstanding.

Microsoft would effectively erase any cash on hand that it has through this merger. The consequences of this extend to the countless projects-run at a loss-that have been churned out in varying markets to look for new areas of revenue. On the one hand, this might stimulate better products from Microsoft, but at the very least will inhibit their ability to enter other markets. Essentially, Microsoft would have to be staking (to some degree) the future of the company on the internet domain. Management failures, less-than-stellar products, etc. could quickly pull Microsoft into a spiral from which it could conceivably never recover.
 
Just because Microsoft buys Yahoo doesn't mean it will SOIL the iPHONE. I personally don't like Yahoo with or without microsoft. I actually like my Hotmail account.

I have Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail (paid subscriber), and .mac (paid subscription is the only option) and from order best to worse:

1. GMAIL
2. HOTMAIL
3. YAHOO and .MAC are both crap

I PRAY iPhone will support other mail options... hopefully GMAIL. PLEASE GMAIL. Personally, I could care less if .mac survives. They charge WAY TOO MUCH for what you get. It's worse than being a HOTMAIL subscriber.
 
kwood said:
I don't understand...Why is it so bad that Microsoft is talking about buying Yahoo? Are all these people voting negative simply because they don't like Microsoft?:confused: :confused: :confused:

I don't see why this is such a huge deal. I can see the potential Yahoo iPhone conflicts but I am sure there will be a resolution.
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Because, Microsoft will eventually design(excuse me, "optimize") all of Yahoo to only work with whatever version of IE they happen to be pushing. And probably require some sort of activex, directx, .net, vb for everything.

Like, say, movie listings. :rolleyes:
 
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