Worst Apple Peripheral Yet

What's wrong with it? I was thinking of getting it myself because at christmas I'll have two Macs.

Care to explain why you don't like it?

 

agreed. I have yet i use any .Mac features. Good thing it expired the other day

 

There's really no point to it unless you have two Macs. You can get storage, web hosting, e-mail, etc. somewhere else for much less.

 

Are you a school teacher or what?
Is there no moderation in place to remove pointless threads like this one?

 

Wow, this is a random, flamey thread. Studying habits aside, though why did anyone expect .Mac announcements today? Granted that it could really stand to be improved.

 

Yup.

Yup, .Mac is stupid and terrible. Almost everything it provides can be gotten for free from other services. And they do a better job.

 

No-one is forced to use .Mac!

If you don't like it don't use it!

 

mr. negative nancy doesn't like it when we discuss products

 

I just get .Mac on eBay, where I can usually find it for less than $40. For that price it's worth it to me. I agree that $99 is too much for me.

 

Not at all. I just find it odd that people will bitch about products (especially subscription based) and continue to use it and moan about it and point out there's better, free solutions out there!

 

I've used .mac since the beginning and the free apps before that - I admit in recent times .mac seems to have been neglected a bit by Apple.

For example, we use to get free audio (to use in iMovie projects), updated templates with older homepage setup, and I did like the old virus app before it disappeared (as it just made me feel better. There were also free games here and there, and apps like stickies, circusponies notebook to make it sweet along the way.

All of that seems to have stopped though - the sweeter bits. However I use .mac everyday and I would be lost without it:

Pros:
- My automated scheduled daily backup of all my modified work - if someone steals my desktop or fire etc - I have not lost my work.
- iDisk, invaluable at uni when working on PC's - my work is always one click away - and via a password is always available to my supervisors via the apple servers
- iCal access anywhere (I don't have a portable at this point)

Cons:
- that oh so cool ....@mac email address is useless to me - as way too much mail goes missing / undelivered and unsent. This is a known problem with apple (and not just with me) but they are silent on the fixes - so I no longer use this email address - too risky and it's cost me a bit already in missed emails. Who knows just how many emails I didn't ever get.
- probably a bit pricey - but it has come down in price for Australian users - I paid (from memory) closer to $200.00 for the first subscription.

It isn't perfect - but I couldn't be productive without it - and I feel I get more out of my apple apps with it - as I tend to use the apple suite of apps to within an inch of their lives.