Comments on: Apple finally revamps .Mac webmail, but does anyone care? http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/ How to live and work as a designer Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:51:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Chanpory http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3623 Chanpory Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:30:48 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3623 <p>Jonathan, now that AOL's launched a suite of free services including e-mail and 5gigs of free backup space via xDrive, the reasons for paying for .Mac is getting even fewer. I suspect Apple will eventually be forced to overhaul .Mac, because of user demand. Perhaps, we shall see this at Macworld in January...</p> Jonathan, now that AOL’s launched a suite of free services including e-mail and 5gigs of free backup space via xDrive, the reasons for paying for .Mac is getting even fewer. I suspect Apple will eventually be forced to overhaul .Mac, because of user demand. Perhaps, we shall see this at Macworld in January…

]]> By: Jonathan Lambert http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3591 Jonathan Lambert Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3591 <p>After careful consideration, I opted not to get .mac with my new 3000 dollar laptop. While a minor fee, the service is completely irrelevant. Why in the world would anyone purchase .mac? Unless you own multiple machines... in which case rsync works just as well.</p> <p>The cost of backup is absolutely stupid. It's time for apple to open up these systems. I should be able to do 95% of the .mac features to my home linux box - that would make the .ac .mac again. ;-)</p> After careful consideration, I opted not to get .mac with my new 3000 dollar laptop. While a minor fee, the service is completely irrelevant. Why in the world would anyone purchase .mac? Unless you own multiple machines… in which case rsync works just as well.

The cost of backup is absolutely stupid. It’s time for apple to open up these systems. I should be able to do 95% of the .mac features to my home linux box – that would make the .ac .mac again. ;-)

]]> By: Oliver Nielsen http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3363 Oliver Nielsen Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:40:43 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3363 <p>So many people use .Mac - and I've tried it out but really don't care to renew it - it sucks in so many aspects.</p> <p>Please guys, you all moan about .Mac, but still you keep on using it - why not show Apple that they don't get your money for that kind of premium-pay=crappy-product?</p> <p>Boycot the shit! It sucks. Apple is... ohh they piss me off now a days. They've had my Macbook for repair for more than a month now. Lousy service. Lousy environmental focus, lousy lousy production tolerances before a product leaves the factory, and they don't care much to invent/release new technology, as long as they can milk the market with small-time updates. The branding takes care of the rest.</p> <p>Just see how they boast "The new Nano, totally remastered." on Apple.com/iPod. Really, TOTALLY REMASTERED? Longer batterylife, a new shell, larger sizes, and the same now quite dated color choices, ripped from the iPod Mini? Wauw man, Steve Jobs are loosing your power? Your imagination? Your humanity?</p> <p>I'm getting to the point where I try to find stuff to buy that is non-apple.</p> So many people use .Mac – and I’ve tried it out but really don’t care to renew it – it sucks in so many aspects.

Please guys, you all moan about .Mac, but still you keep on using it – why not show Apple that they don’t get your money for that kind of premium-pay=crappy-product?

Boycot the shit! It sucks. Apple is… ohh they piss me off now a days. They’ve had my Macbook for repair for more than a month now. Lousy service. Lousy environmental focus, lousy lousy production tolerances before a product leaves the factory, and they don’t care much to invent/release new technology, as long as they can milk the market with small-time updates. The branding takes care of the rest.

Just see how they boast “The new Nano, totally remastered.” on Apple.com/iPod. Really, TOTALLY REMASTERED? Longer batterylife, a new shell, larger sizes, and the same now quite dated color choices, ripped from the iPod Mini? Wauw man, Steve Jobs are loosing your power? Your imagination? Your humanity?

I’m getting to the point where I try to find stuff to buy that is non-apple.

]]> By: Nabeel http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3322 Nabeel Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:11:29 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3322 <p>windows users don't have access to this :( .. i wanted to see what .mac is all about ..</p> <p>Nabeel http://nabeelzeeshan.blogspot.com</p> windows users don’t have access to this :( .. i wanted to see what .mac is all about ..

Nabeel http://nabeelzeeshan.blogspot.com

]]> By: Anthony Baker http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3296 Anthony Baker Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:13:05 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3296 <p>Apple, if you're listening: </p> <p>I'm the customer you want. I'll pay money. I'll use your stuff over the competition that even Microsoft wants to kill. </p> <p>But you've gotta do a bit better. C'mon, folks -- get with it.</p> Apple, if you’re listening:

I’m the customer you want. I’ll pay money. I’ll use your stuff over the competition that even Microsoft wants to kill.

But you’ve gotta do a bit better. C’mon, folks — get with it.

]]> By: Anthony Baker http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3295 Anthony Baker Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:11:49 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3295 <p>Michael Arrington wrote a piece on TechCrunch about this today -- he points out that, if it supports multiple mail accounts -- the new .Mac mail app will be one of the only multi-account AJAX-based webmail clients out there. It's frankly had me look at this in an altogether new light.</p> <p>http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/29/why-the-new-mac-webmail-is-important/#comments</p> <p>I've frankly shyed away from forking any cash over for .Mac (not enough benefit), but as a guy who now has to use Gmail for multi-platform purposes (work on a PC now, Mac otherwise), I'd love to be able to stick with Apple Mail and have a killer web-based GUI for it.</p> <p>Of course, I'd also like them to compete better with Google Calendar. My understanding is that you (can)'t sync multiple calendars with the web-based version of iCal? Can you even subscribe to other calendars as you can with the desktop client?</p> <p>Hell, if they brought the web-based versions of Mail and iCal up to snuff with the desktop versions, I'd pay money in a second. (Um, and if the servers respond well and the amount of hard disk space allowed for Mail was comparable).</p> <p>Then, $100 would be well worth my time and effort -- and it would keep me in the Apple app/GUI realm, which I dig.</p> Michael Arrington wrote a piece on TechCrunch about this today — he points out that, if it supports multiple mail accounts — the new .Mac mail app will be one of the only multi-account AJAX-based webmail clients out there. It’s frankly had me look at this in an altogether new light.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/29/why-the-new-mac-webmail-is-important/#comments

I’ve frankly shyed away from forking any cash over for .Mac (not enough benefit), but as a guy who now has to use Gmail for multi-platform purposes (work on a PC now, Mac otherwise), I’d love to be able to stick with Apple Mail and have a killer web-based GUI for it.

Of course, I’d also like them to compete better with Google Calendar. My understanding is that you (can)’t sync multiple calendars with the web-based version of iCal? Can you even subscribe to other calendars as you can with the desktop client?

Hell, if they brought the web-based versions of Mail and iCal up to snuff with the desktop versions, I’d pay money in a second. (Um, and if the servers respond well and the amount of hard disk space allowed for Mail was comparable).

Then, $100 would be well worth my time and effort — and it would keep me in the Apple app/GUI realm, which I dig.

]]> By: abdullah http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3288 abdullah Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:29:04 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3288 <p>this website is a lousy rip-off of lifehacker.com !!!</p> this website is a lousy rip-off of lifehacker.com !!!

]]> By: Luke http://www.lifeclever.com/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/comment-page-1/#comment-3269 Luke Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:32:57 +0000 http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/09/28/apple-finally-revamps-mac-webmail-but-does-anyone-care/#comment-3269 <p>I still use .Mac but the sync and the fact everyone knows my email address there is what keeps me from leaving. It's advantage over other free services is the integration -- everything in one place, but I think Chanpory is right and Apple really need to up the anti and give people some damn good reasons to use .Mac -- I mean, Photocasting??</p> I still use .Mac but the sync and the fact everyone knows my email address there is what keeps me from leaving. It’s advantage over other free services is the integration — everything in one place, but I think Chanpory is right and Apple really need to up the anti and give people some damn good reasons to use .Mac — I mean, Photocasting??

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