MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

bought a 3ghz mac pro. Apple tried to upsell me dot mac. I said no way. There is nothing compelling about it yet. It desperately needs an overhaul to justify purchasing such a service.

wow. that pretty much explains everything

I could use more online storage with .mac

What if it were free and with a major overhaul? Just a thought!

I use it constantly and love iot, but it should be free to Mac users-- another added value.

they'd better do something, or i'm ditching .mac when my subscription expires. $100/pa is too much for email and a few other services nobody uses.

the only thing that bothers me is price, I think $29.95/yr is reasonable, $99 is not

This is going to help me decide if I will renew at the end of the month.

One feature I'd like to see: If a .Mac user could make a database (FMP? or a new product) that could be linked to your web site. It would make dynamic web pages available to .Mac users.

Guess me and other people that don't blink at the iPhone price don't mind $99 for convenience.

Show me one service ONE service, not an amalgam of different PC compatible crud, that offers the ease of .Mac.

maybe more integrated with an also to be announced new iLife suite.... ?

God knows it needs an upgrade. I finally let my subscription lapse after 4 years back in May because it just isn't a good value any more. If it gets a significant upgrade tomorrow I'll seriously reconsider re-subscribing again though.

iLife Update? Please?? Is it possible that Leopard will arrive without an update to iLife? I never thought it would happen.

Time to start Apple-Bingo

My three columns:

B:
iMac (brushed Al)
iPhone SDK
New MacMini Design

I:
Leopard Released early (or late)
New .Mac service
?TV Upgrade

N:
iWork Upgrade
Free Webhoasting
iLife Upgrade

$99/yr COULD be reasonable if they gave us something... say, domain hosting. I'd be happy to pay $99 if they'd host my domain, boost storage and give us a few extra perks.

It does have web hosting, if you want to use homepage.mac.com or if you use iWeb. It does actually also allow straight HTML, although it's not as elegant about it. And yes, it could use more space.

MW: should. My sentiments exactly.

apologies for misposting this in the next article thread...

Actually, a new price point (say, free) on dotmac could be the thing that was referenced as a potential revenue hit by the CFO...he said "product transition" I think...

p3

"they'd better do something, or i'm ditching .mac when my subscription expires. $100/pa is too much for email and a few other services nobody uses."

says the person who probably pays $4.50 a day for lattes at Starbucks.

I'd be happy if the download speed was up to par with other sites.. it's very SLOW.

iSync is still not perfect, and causes problems at times.

Bring on Mobile Me™ with over-the-air iPhone integration!

It's time for .Mac to add some things that are quite compelling.

It started as an innovative service and has significantly stalled. I like it because of it's great iWeb integration. For someone like me who is not fully aware of HTML/developing/hosting websites.

I think it's a gret product, but should develop off of it's platform. And add MUCH more storage. The fact that AOL & gmail give more away for FREE is appalling.

says the person who probably pays $4.50 a day for lattes at Starbucks.

No doubt... Wah, wah, wah, $8.25/month is too much.

The money isn't too much, the value proposition just isn't good enough. Which is a shame because I liked the service, it's just overpriced for what it is.

I hope they up grade the speed of the servers. My page loads so slow!

For me, .Mac is well worth the price simply because of the synching features that allows me to have all my mail, addresses, bookmarks and iCal events updated on all my Macs. If Apple adds more features it will only become more appealing.

I ditched it last May because I could do everything it offered far cheaper elsewhere. In addition, the lack of domain hosting was the final breaking point. The only thing I couldn't do elsewhere was the syncing but even when I considered that, it was only of value to me once in a while. I simply could no longer justify the expense.

People keep saying it's not a value for what you get, but can't spell out where you can get something similar that's as integrated with the OSX experience as .Mac is for less.

There are free services out there, but you get what you pay for.

MDN Magic Word - Bring

I'd love for someone to "bring" some serious competition against .Mac, but it just ain't happening.

I think that it is retarded that the Canadian .Mac is $139CAD and in the US it is $99. The exchange is about 1.05CAD to 1USD so really it shouldnt be more than $110CAD.