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Apple has added a new member benefit to its .Mac service:

.Mac members get 13 .Mac-exclusive web page designs (a US$49 value) free, plus US$20 off the US$99 price of Contribute 2 web publishing software. Create a full-featured site using the templates and Contribute, or use Contribute alone to edit existing web pages.
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This offer expires on January 21, 2004.

Apple recently added three other offers (VersionTracker Plus, iBlog, $30 off FireWire drives) for .Mac subscribers in late September.
 
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damn, they just keep giving us the hook up dont they.

iJon
 
So glad they are offering this.

I'm way to impatient to create a webpage so this will work perfect for me. And to top it off, it syncs to .Mac.

Man, I could do this with my eyes closed!

Chad4Mac
 
Apple Store discount

I went into an Apple store about a month ago, and a clerk told me he could give me a 69.99 price on a renewal (that would also include all the other rebates and gifts). I wasn't ready to buy right then, so I didn't do it.

I was ready last week, so I went back in, hoping to be offered the same deal. At first it didn't happen, but after a few minutes a manager told me that the .Mac price for those buying a new machine was 69.99, but that they'd honor that price for people renewing. I jumped at it and now I've got it.

I don't think that the Apple stores are heavily pushing this, and they may not offer it to everyone but it was there for me and a $30.00 savings is nothing to sniff at (and, to be honest, that price moved me from indecision to a quick buy).
 
i would rather have the price drop then all these added features that i personally wouldn't use...don't get me wrong its great to keep adding features...and if there are some out there that i don't know about that i would use i would consider getting .mac...but for $100 i can live without it
 
Re: Include MacOS and I'll join today

Originally posted by rohitp
At these prices, why can't it include Mac OS upgrades?
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You mean why doesn't a $99 .mac subscription include all of the current member benefits + a $129 OS upgrade?

Hmmm... that's a really good question. :rolleyes:

PS - I think they should throw in a free iPod, too.
 
Re: Re: Include MacOS and I'll join today

Originally posted by Flowbee
You mean why doesn't a $99 .mac subscription include all of the current member benefits + a $129 OS upgrade?

Hmmm... that's a really good question. :rolleyes:

PS - I think they should throw in a free iPod, too.
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Yeah really. People have been suggesting this lately. I can see some discounts, but what do you want, free OS upgrades that cost more than the entire service?

I hope most people see the impracticality of that.
 
Re: Re: Include MacOS and I'll join today

Originally posted by Flowbee
You mean why doesn't a $99 .mac subscription include all of the current member benefits + a $129 OS upgrade?

Hmmm... that's a really good question. :rolleyes:

PS - I think they should throw in a free iPod, too.
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Totally off-topic. I don't know what I dig more: your nickname or that pic that fits it perfectly.

Now, more to the point: is there a benefit to joining .Mac, over and above "rolling your own" service? I host my own servers, and am about to do the DNS magic that makes Mac OS X think that MY servers are really .Mac servers; that 100MB of space for iDisk is too limiting for me.

What other benefits do I get, besides bookmark syncing, with .Mac service that would be better than rolling my own? I don't mind paying $100, but I want to make sure that the services are worth it, and that I won't be too limited by what's offered that I'd wish I did it myself anyways...

Any advice, anybody?
 
I personally love .Mac. Ever since getting it, I've gotten tons of free software, games, and utilities, I have the iDisk which makes it easy for me to share all of my pictures and stuff with my girlfriend and parents at home without having to uploads tons of files in email, I have a great email address, finally was able to get rid of AOL for good, and every day I seem to discover a new thing to enjoy with the service. I definitely think it was worth the $69 and plan on renewing it next year when my subscription is up.

Not to mention...free solitaire! :D ;)
 
Originally posted by bertagert
cnladd,

Whats this magic trick you have? I've never heard of it.
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In general, you set up your own WebDAV server and then have your DNS server or a host file redirect all traffic going to www.mac.com or idisk.mac.com over to that new server. The OS thinks that it's really .Mac, so all of the functions built into the OS will continue to work.

Unfortunately, since you're directing .Mac traffic to a different host that means that you can no longer access real .Mac services.

Check out this site for full instructions on how to do this: http://www.drijf.net/dototto/ Check out the links at the bottom of that page (especially setting up the pseudo-.Mac server) for completing the OS integration.
 
Yeah.. with the price per gigabyte falling

How bout more than 100MB standard. I mean a year ago storage was more expensive... shouldn't .mac up the amount of storage in relation to the lowering costs of drives. I am sure near the limit. I love all the perks... but c'mon more storage please... and a year of only the same 7 web page themes for movies.
that said I love my .mac account.... but I too have access to more server space elsewhere...It's just not as brainless.
 
More Training

One of the few complaints I had was with the limited homepage templates. Perhaps this new offering will give you more options. One of the biggest perks for me has been the Mac Training programs they offer in QuickTime. As a fairly recent switcher, I found the OS X training to be a real plus. I hope they continue to add more training programs. After all, it doesn't cost them anything.

Squire
 
You have to install contribute 2

to get at the templates.... then after the trial period is over you have to buy contribute 2 for 79 bucks
 
Re: Re: Re: Include MacOS and I'll join today

Originally posted by cnladd
Totally off-topic. I don't know what I dig more: your nickname or that pic that fits it perfectly.

Now, more to the point: is there a benefit to joining .Mac, over and above "rolling your own" service? I host my own servers, and am about to do the DNS magic that makes Mac OS X think that MY servers are really .Mac servers; that 100MB of space for iDisk is too limiting for me.

What other benefits do I get, besides bookmark syncing, with .Mac service that would be better than rolling my own? I don't mind paying $100, but I want to make sure that the services are worth it, and that I won't be too limited by what's offered that I'd wish I did it myself anyways...

Any advice, anybody?
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You clearly have not noticed this but here it is once more:

*.mac was never and will never be designed for people like you.*

Plain and simple, .mac was not created for you and you don't need it. Raise of hands how many mac *normal* mac users who could care less what a "server" is are capable of rolling their own .mac service? .mac is *web services for the rest of us*. If you can roll your own, great, use it. But if not, you can sign up for .mac and have Apple take care of everything. If you know Final Cut Pro, great, you can make great movies. If not, there's iMovie. .Mac is not meant to compete with geek services.

I believe the reason that Apple will not lower the price is that they know that in the next few years, they will be adding great things to .mac to justify it's value and do not want to keep escalating the price every single year. Until then, their strategy is to give away stuff to justify it's value.
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Include MacOS and I'll join today

Originally posted by Nebrie
You clearly have not noticed this but here it is once more:

*.mac was never and will never be designed for people like you.*

Plain and simple, .mac was not created for you and you don't need it. Raise of hands how many mac *normal* mac users who could care less what a "server" is are capable of rolling their own .mac service? .mac is *web services for the rest of us*. If you can roll your own, great, use it. But if not, you can sign up for .mac and have Apple take care of everything. If you know Final Cut Pro, great, you can make great movies. If not, there's iMovie. .Mac is not meant to compete with geek services.
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It may be my interpretation, but the way you've stated this is unwarranted.

You make it sound as if my intention was to brag about "rolling my own", to pan .Mac services, or both. There's also an implication that I'm complaining about lack of features. That just simply isn't the case.

I'm a switcher, though not from Windows but from commercial UNIX. While I can roll my own easily enough, the value I find in Apple is the simpler, easier way of doing things that are normally complex. I would much prefer to have an all-inclusive provider for everything and, more importantly, like Apple's design simplicity and prefer to support Apple where I can.

I was merely curious as to the value of their other .Mac services and was wondering if it outweighs the loss of near-limitless iDisk capacity gained from rolling my own. If it does, I'll sign up in an instant. That's why I was asking for people's advice and opinions on their services--not a curt response on how "people like me" were never meant to use the service.
 
Since I signed up with .mac, I've gotten loads of free software, great junk mail filtering, a new job, new car, a beautiful girlfriend, and a dog that doesn't pee on my carpet even when I'm too drunk to let it out. Coincidence? I think not.
 
Originally posted by Awimoway
Since I signed up with .mac, I've gotten loads of free software, great junk mail filtering, a new job, new car, a beautiful girlfriend, and a dog that doesn't pee on my carpet even when I'm too drunk to let it out. Coincidence? I think not.
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If .Mac gave me a dog, too, will it eat my cat that does pee on the carpet?
 
Originally posted by howard
i would rather have the price drop then all these added features that i personally wouldn't use...
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With always increasing secondary benefits I begin asking myself, if Apple is actually selling a software/service package rather than .mac itself.
 
Re: .mac

Originally posted by NuMan
I have yet to see any benefits of .mac for me? Can anyone that uses it explain how it helps you?
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For starters, I like having a .mac email address.

Features I use:

my bookmarks being available to me elsewhere
creating photo web pages easily for my family
the $100 worth of free Kodak prints last year
iDisk so I can acces files away from home
backing up certain things to IDisk
Accessing it through Windows from work
a few decent free games
$20 off my new bluetooth kb
30 off a FireWire 80B drive

There are more but I think $100 is well worth it for the convenience and integration with my mac.
 
desperation

I think people aren't renewing, hence the recent rush of incentives.

Make it $79/year and I think people might renew. Better still, $8.95/month is less painful.
 
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