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Will .Mac’s new webmail rear its pretty head today?
[UPDATE: 2:49pm EDT: The answer to our question seems to be “no, not today.” .Mac webmail is back up with no changes evident.]
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It’s about time Apple did something to .Mac to earn their $99 a year. With Google offering almost 3GB of webmail for free, and .Mac only 250MB, it’s not looking particularly good value. Sync and iWeb integration is nice, but I’m beginning to question whether its $99-a-year-nice.
Looks the same to me when I just logged in..
250 MB???? what year are you in bro!????
Try 1GB with a standalone .Mac account alocate it as you wish for mail or storage….
dambass!
I can’t log onto AIM. Which surprises me a little.
Not to mention there is also a way to use your Google account as storage. And Google is now offering a Google user page. With a gMail account and a Flickr account, why get a dotNac account?
Reality Check:
I agree. With a gMail account and a Flickr account, why bother with dotMac anyway?
There is a way to use gMail account as storage. Also Google is now starting user pages, so users can have their own home page.
Apple needs to drop the price to about $39.99, in order to make it an interesting deal.
Sorry for the thick Oreo.
The first time the page refreshed, my comment was not there. So I redid it. I like my second one better anyway.
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For the record, just the mac.com web is down. I can still get my mail using Apples Mail program (or I’m assuming any mail program) and my web pages are still online.
There are more outages on .Mac than Apple reports. I have had it since iTools days.
back up — no updates
Those that compare .Mac to gmail and Flickr are ignoring the most valuable aspects of the service… synchronization and integration. Nothing comes close.
I would consider retracting the update you posted at 2:49.
I continue to get “Gateway Timeout” problems sporadically. Something’s still going on…
(comment went missing, so here it is again)
My attempts to access .Mac result in a “Gateway Timeout” error. Something’s up…
I’m still having problems with .Mac as well. And I actually WANT to check my email
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I guess today could be getting everything “in line” so that tomorrow they can annouce the new Mail and just flip the switch. That way they get to do it on a Tuesday!
.Mac is back… again. On the .Mac page it helpfully explains:
10/09/2006
Web Services were unavailable for 2 hour(s) to all .Mac Members.
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Which leaves me wondering if this means anything.
Is anyone else getting redirection errors that they didn’t get before? For me, this happens after you put in the password, but before it displays the “same ol'” interface.
Ahh, more actual LOOKING got me this address.
http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=202
Which of course is almost, but not quite, COMPLETELY unrelated to webmail.
And now, for something completely different. IT’S
.mac almost entirely blows, but I pay for the $99/year solely for the automated off-site backup. My computer was stolen about 7 years ago, and ever since then I’ve been paranoid about not having offsite backup. And if I actually have to remember to back up the data, I won’t do it. Apple’s “Backup” program is great for this, since it just does a backup once a day of new stuff to my .mac account.
If anybody else knows of as simple a solution for less money, I’ll jump at it, but I haven’t seen anything else like it.
Re. 250MB vs. 1GB. My bad. But point still stands – GMail gives me 3GB for free. .Mac gives me 1/3rd of that for $99. Connection speeds suck. 1GB is useless for any serious backup usage. Like I said, sync and iWeb are nice, but not worth $99. Time for Apple to provide some real value – or drop the price.
dotmac has improved, but it’s still got a long ways to go. Yes, the integration and sync is nice, but that’s it’s only advantage. I got gmail now plus flickr. Much nicer interface than dotmac. It’s faster, i get more, and oh yea, it’s free. Hard to beat that. Oh, and now I got calendar and spreadsheets with gmail. Google Pages is in early beta, but still works great, and writely is my new word processor. I haven’t opened microsoft office in weeks, not even at work!
Oh, one more thing: dotmac’s web-hosting blows. Period. Yes, it’s nice to use iweb or rapidweaver, but I can’t do a lot of stuff. Php has become a standard, and dotmac’s web hosting doesn’t even support it. I can get 5gigs of web space for roughly $3.50 a month with godaddy and I can use wordpress (free) with more options than iweb, and easier to use than rapidweaver’s advanced options.
If you’ve got the money to burn, dotmac is nice. If you don’t, or if you just don’t like throwing money away, dotmac needs some improving before they’ll get more users.
Those are the facts. Period.
Reality Check: why you are still here is a bit difficult to comprehend..your contributions are normally pretty useless and as here, often inaccurate.
I disagree. .Mac is a lot more than just storage. Flikr and Gmail are fine for what THEY do but not for the purposes of synchronising different Macs, putting up websites etc etc…
I don’t need it myself, but $99 a year is already perfectly good value. That’s not to say Apple shouldn’t make it yet better value, and I’m sure they will.
I cancelled my account. Has anyone else has to endure the account cancellation process? First you have to discover how to do it. Apple doesn’t make it easy. I was with .Mac since it was announced. I have 3 Macs myself and I’m finding it to be overpriced and burdensome. The renewal email I got had several errors. Apple should be embarrassed at this service. They have incredible gall to be charging $100/year.
Ah, this explains why Keychain kept insisting that my password was incorrect earlier today.