Comments on: Google: The Next (free) .Mac? http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jesper V. http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313633 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:02:02 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313633 I have been thinking about dotmac for a wile. its a lot of money for something you can get for free.
On the other hand its dead easy to use and if you look at the price for 10gb off webspace dotmac is not bad.
My probleme with dotmac is the lack off choice.
I have all my bookmarks on delicius, my photos and mail and rss at google.
I just want to make tings easy, not move all my stuff to dotmac.
so steve don’t reinvent the wheel just make it dead easy to be a mac user.

]]> By: akiersky http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313632 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:03:03 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313632 If you’re looking for a remote storage option with google, try gDisk http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28136 it lets you use your gMail’s extra space as a backup. pretty cool.

]]> By: Moving From a .Mac Account To a Free Google Account. « The PottsDome http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313631 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:59:20 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313631 [...] Why pay Apple for a .mac address and only 1Gig of storage when you can have a Google mail account and 2 Gigs of storage for free ? There are unbiased rumors that Apple will offer there .mac accounts free in the near future. Why are people slow to get rid of their .mac accounts ? It could be that they don’t want to give up their address’s with the .mac signature. Or they have spent a lot of time making a .mac web page and don’t want the hassle of moving it elsewhere. But if your considering the move here is a nice article by Matthew Russell on a O’Reilly Report page. [...]

]]> By: Steve M http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313630 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:54:08 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313630 LOL Mushu … v funny

Just ditched .Mac, just not worth it. Bookmark syncing hasn’t worked properly for me ever on Tiger. Trashed my address book twice (fortunately had a backup), iDisk WAY slooowww, Homepage is slow too.

Annoyed that Apple charge a higher rate of VAT in the UK just because they are based in Ireland. To those that say ‘it’s available cheaper if you look’, WTF should I have to look around just to get it at a reasonable price?

Trying Gmail for email, much faster interface, nice Tiger widget, even faster than .Mac via Mail! Will use Box.net for remote storage, probably Flickr (maybe Picasa) for photos and Del.icio.us for bookmarks (not mad keen on the tagging/layout but it’s not a biggie).

]]> By: mushu http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313629 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:38:08 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313629 listening to some of you here speak about .mac is a joke and you call yourselves Mac users ?

you pay $99 to support apple, its not about you, what you receive in a .mac is well worth the 8 freaken dollars a month.

if i didn’t know any better i’d sear you guys are pc users, i want this, give me that, i want more, i want it free wah wah geeze get some mac balls will ya ?

go back to windows cry babies, let apple do its thing, mac is for the elite not for the poor and pathetic losers who want everything free

.mac membership is outstanding, its the icing on the macake

google will never come close to apple godlike status,

some of you panzies need to get spanked

]]> By: lou http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313628 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:26:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313628 mac mail sucks and thats all there is to it.storage …sucks. return receipt………nope ………..it sucks

]]> By: spvn http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313627 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:02:14 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313627 definately the next .mac.. the only thing missing is the syncing.. but other than that i think everything else i need is there..

]]> By: garethtownsend.info » Blog Archive » The Monday Mashup - Links for the week ending the 15th of October 2006 http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313626 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:13:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313626 [...] A weeks worth of reading equates to a lot, so lets get into it! Is Google the next .mac? When I got my first mac way back when I tried out .mac, apples web storage, email and syncing solution. It was pretty cool, but cost way too much for what it was. Especially when I could do most of it myself, for free, with a little bit of work. The Apple Blog tends to agree with me, and they seem to think Google’s web apps will soon create a valid replacement for .mac. And by integrating existing services, as opposed to re-inventing the wheel, it’s easier to attract users, and hold them. [...]

]]> By: Eytan http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313625 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:32:50 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313625 Chris G., Multiple comments have been made here as to how to get it for much less than retail. Maybe if you read the previous posts you would have seen that the ability to get it at half the price is there.

]]> By: Chris G http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313624 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:01:04 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313624 My .Mac account is coming up for renewal in about two weeks and I – very reluctantly because I LOVE all things Mac – decided not to renew it. It’s insanely expensive for what it provides which is not much. It’s cranky, Mac mail has been a mess recently, the storage offered is ridiculous when you can now easily find other services offering up to 5GB free storage, and there are serious problems with almost all the other services it offers, such as iWeb. Apple needs at the very least to boost the amount of free storage offered, but it really needs to take a look at the whole thing. For $49 it might, might be worth thinking about. For $108 (including tax)? They gotta be kidding.

]]> By: vanni http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313623 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:23:22 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313623 >If you guys hate is so much, don’t buy it. You’re free to choose. But stop ruining it >for the ones that use it on a daily basis.

I think the criticisms offered come under fair comment. I use it, and I think it can be improved, and I welcome comments that are meant to improve the product. And I hope Apple listens ;-)

]]> By: Michael http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313622 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:06:44 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313622 I spend half of the asking price for a dotmac-Box on ebay. The guy in China just provided me with the code and it worked. Be realistic – 99 Dollars is the maximum anyone ever payes for dotmac.

Love to have my contacts in sync.
I use iDisk syncing while working on my masterthesis on 2 Macs. It works like a charm.

If you guys hate is so much, don’t buy it. You’re free to choose. But stop ruining it for the ones that use it on a daily basis.

]]> By: vanni http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313621 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:25:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313621 @heather: google’s raison’etre is free because of eyeballs on ads. I don’t see that changing any time soon if ever. If they do it’s like commiting hari kari.
@KD i had the fortune of having good advice on buying my .mac account on Amzon for 79US and then having it shipped to a US address, where the account was emailed to me… my cost 99CDN!

But i agree with the thrusts of the comments herein. DOT MAC needs to be A) improved, eg. iDisk is too s l o w w w w … and B) updated to current web standards. And there has to be a way to get to use the hompage / i web feature more robustlly. If you ever use the iLife tools to publish you end up having al of your custom pages overridden or lost! grrrrrr! this part of homepage B U G S me to no end! Any way i am in for another year, because i got my account at a reasonable cost. But i am keeping my options open.

gDisk btw is a piece of junk. it never manages to upload big files, and even downloading fiels is buggy.

]]> By: Eytan http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313620 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:14:02 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313620 The last two years I have been buying my .mac discounted for ~75, punching in my code, and letting it renew with that code rather than the 99 tax apple charges. At those rates, I find it to be a great service. I wish they would open iChat encryption to all .mac accounts and not just the paid ones. Because of that, it NEVER gets used.

]]> By: Heather http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313619 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:09:24 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313619 With their acquisition of YouTube, I’ve been left wondering something about Google. What’s going to happen when we’ve all become dependent on it for our mail, calendars, etc. and then they start charging for these things?

]]> By: Yasser Dahab http://gigaom.com/apple/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313618 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:18:21 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/08/google-next-free-mac/#comment-313618 Point taken, Myles. I’m actually not a huge Google fan either (the whole fear of the new evil-empire thing), but their services really are kicking some tail right now.

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