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This looks promising

It would be nice that instead of adding features to .mac (which as a concept i love) perhaps they should focus on making it WORK. Like a transfer shouldnt take 2 days. The iDisk shouldnt lock up your system when tranferring files or unmounting.

Just some suggestions.

I hope it's true.

The one reason I did not decide to get a .Mac account since Apple took my iDisk away was because of the $99.95 pricing. Yes I can get it half off, but I was hoping for more features and a better way to build a website. I really hope this rumor is true and that having .Mac a must have!

It's like people are ruining Christmas. I wanted to be surprised. Jackasses. They should go get real jobs. Fricking rumor leeching websites.

$69.95 would likely bring me back on board as a .Mac customer. Make it Canadian dollars with no tax added and I'll guarantee it. At ninety-nine bucks American, however .. they can keep it.

(No .. I don't miss having email. Life without it has been just fine. heh)

Yeah, it all sounds good. But will any web app be able to function without .Mac? Also, I hope that any update to iLife and iWork includes iPhoto performance and fixing the totally broken Flash export and almost broken QuickTime export in Keynote. That was a feature that I jumped at iWork for and it was a complete disappointment. I was hoping to not need to crack open Flash everytime i need to make a slideshow style presentation sort of thing for the web.

PHP & SQL ...together with the rumor that you can have a terabyte of bandwidth. This would be great for web developers that want to want to host content rich websites.

If there is indeed 1 terabyte of bandwidth, Apple could make it possible for anyone to make a podcast (Video via iMovie or Audio via Garageband) and host it on their .mac account; possibly tying it into iTunes music store.

Let it be so!

If Webpages or iWeb will be anything like Realmac's RapidWeaver, Apple will have another great app on its hands. The guys at Realmac have put out a supremely easy-to-use application which puts out great webpages depending on the creator's creatiity, ofcourse ) and adopts the drag/drop method w/ aplomb.
Yes, i am a proud owner of a RW license :D

AND .Mac must include at the very least Perl or PHP functionality before I will be interested in paying $69.95 a year for it. Come on, Apple.

M.W. Least....... see above.

iWeb sounds interesting, although RapidWeaver is about as easy as it gets...although a calendar function that would sync with your own iCal would be nice...

Hey, theloniousMac...

Just curious why you are reading rumor sites (especially MDN) and the article feedback comments if you want to stay surprised...

I was right. "Numbers" for the spreadsheet component of iWork. A lower .Mac price is welcome. So is increased bandwdith, more tools, etc.

However, I'm having difficulty figuring out how Apple can make web page design much easier than Rapidweaver or Karelia's Sandvox.

Tera Patricks
Mac360

"It's like people are ruining Christmas. I wanted to be surprised. Jackasses. They should go get real jobs. Fricking rumor leeching websites.

theloniousMAC"

do what most people do at christmas- DONT LOOK!!!
fricking boneheaded crybabies

come back to MDN on tuesday after the keynote and be surprised
does the word "DUH" mean anything to you?

I wish there will be a keynote one day without anything new. Just the whole keynote of jobs showing the better alternatives of what users think they would be missing when they'd make the switch.
And then I also mean stuff in the servers department... .
I really really hope that one day, jobs will come on stage and then does show new stuff with the beginning phrase "this software you're about to see led a secret life for X years for just in case, and now is the time"
And then he shows us software where everybody goes bananas about
And Steve!! Show off the whole cocoa framework and attract developers...
people think MSDN is the only thing that is professional and mature... show them different! Yeah!

Sound great, but why oh why does Apple continue to forgo a bang-up email program on par with Entourage? Mail is simply too basic. It's time to integrate features like tasks, scheduling, email into one. The dependence on MS Office must end within 1 year IMNSHO.

I don't normally consider MDN a rumor site. I like news, editorials etc. I don't mind the far flung rumors, I can laugh at those. Unfortunately these latest few ring true.

I never go to the Mac rumor sites, unless I'm looking for confirmation concerning something that might make a difference in purchase recommendations, exactly what Apple hates, actually.



I just hate when all the cool news from MacWorld slips out ahead of time. MDN just reports what the rumor sites are saying. MDN doesn't generate the rumors.

"It's like people are ruining Christmas. I wanted to be surprised. Jackasses. They should go get real jobs. Fricking rumor leeching websites.

theloniousMAC"

do what most people do at christmas- DONT LOOK!!!
fricking boneheaded crybabies

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AGREED! Sheesh - you come to this site just to find inside news, then when it´s revealed you go look, then afterwards whine about it.

NINEboy - right you are!!! We should all leave cookies out for Santa Jobs, and dream of sugar plums or iPods or something. I still think it's kinda entertaining, especially when Santa Jobs DOES make the announcements and everyone's "predictions" are proven wrong - the thrill is in the ride.

Forget dot mac. If all you want to do is simple web pages, just use your ISP. Anything more and you need a real host. And .mac isn't it. No database backend. No ssh connectivity. For $120 a year, you can get a real host, with database connectivity, 50 imap email accounts and real development environments.

Just give me my Intel mini so I can throw Linux on it and use it as a server at home.

The only problem is that there is a company unrelated to Apple that calls themself iWeb. http://iweb.ca/en/index.php.

I bought Pages (iWork) to try and break free of MS Office. Unfortunately, it doesn't have support for any bibliography manager (e.g. EndNote or BookEnds).

Without support for tools like bibliography managers, Pages can't be taken seriously as a Word replacement.

I hope the rumored update addresses this issue.


MW="true" ... I hope it is true...

There are already Linux flavors for the PowerPC. penguinppc.org

compared with OS X, Linux looks like a big turd, though. Maybe Linux will be up to Apple's par in 2 to 3 years.

If you already have a G3 or lesser Mac, then Linux would be good, though...

Pages isn't trying to be a Word replacement, and never has. Not once.

Let's face it, Pages barely replaces Microsoft's Notepad.

Think auto-updating web pages like in Aperture!

<http://www.apple.com/aperture/quicktours/?print>

From your iPhoto library to movies to iCal calendars!

My favorite design blog has a cool hosting promo going on now. (not affiliated with either, just trying to help)

http://creativebits.org/dreamhost_promotion

Yeah, yeah, yeah...just bring on the new Macs!

Let's face it, Pages barely replaces Microsoft's Notepad.

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yeah.. i mean.. it doesn't even have.. mail merge..

er...

Just call it Numbers 2006 and be done with it..

All the stuff is ordered by year (iWork 06, iLife 06)...

They've been syncing the numbers on the iLife side.. but not on iWork.. just call it 2006 okay?

If Pages is not meant to be a Word replacement, then why is Apple obviously creating a suite of programs to replace Microsoft Office?

Of course, with Pages, Apple is trying to make something that is better than Word, without all the "bloat" (zillions of extra and never used features). As a hybrid between a word processor and a page layout program, it is ideal for some types of complex documents (in my case, grant proposals) that require both sophisticated word processing and also embedded images. But if I have to copy and paste the text into Word just to make the bibliography with EndNote or BookEnds, then the advantage is gone.

All Apple has to do is give third party developers the specs about their Pages XML file formats so they can make plug-ins or companion programs to do things like bibliographies (or mail merge). Apple doesn't have to add all these features themselves, just open up the file format to let developers add specialized functionalities that some users need.

MW=doing - I would rather be doing my work with Pages than with Word.