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.Mac Update Coming at August 7th Media Event?
macrumors.com — Apple's .Mac site warns users that the .Mac service will be undergoing maintenance on August 7th between 10 AM an 12 PM PDT.Due to scheduled maintenance, .Mac members might be intermittently unable to access some .Mac services from 10 AM to 12 PM PDT on 08/07/2007. We apologize for any inconvenience...
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- jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37It's about bloody time they updated this....
- EBFoxbat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I also think the prediction is spot-on. It'll be interested to see what comes of this. There's so much potential, don't drop the ball Apple.
- turpenine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I would use dotmac if it had some legit features that could even begin to compete with other free webservices.
- sancho320, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, with the key word being free!
P.S. It's too late anyway, Google has already won me over.
- sancho320, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, with the key word being free!
- tracydanger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I recently submitted a suggestion on apple's feedback page that they make .Mac a free service. I doubt that they would and I also doubt that if they did that it would be because of my feedback, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Maybe all apple-loving diggers should do the same. Would it make a difference?
- rpgmaker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1.Mac is useless, there are severals free 'as in beer' alternatives out there. It was useful when it was launched for the first time: a completely different internet era.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1They don't need an event to reduce the price. Should be $29 per year for existing service, and then add a new more full featured pro service for €99.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Two currency units in the same sentence? What, is you room 13 ft x 4 m?
- turpenine, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2i loled.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4You also made a typo in your response smart-ass. Whatever, I made a typo. It doesn't matter anyway, cause it's still equal as the service is both $99 per year and €99 in Europe. Point is it should be cheaper then its current price.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Two currency units in the same sentence? What, is you room 13 ft x 4 m?
- LeeVal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Is there an engadget live update?
- alexmuller, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5They've been invited, so chances are they'll be doing a live update, and be sure to check http://macrumorslive.com/ in case they have live coverage as well
- shawnblanc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I doubt the price will change. There really should be increased storage - 1GB is pretty archaic. And maybe we'll see iPhone syncing.
- bradbeattie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Best idea I saw on the MacRumors comments was to roll .Mac and iLife into one package. Buy iLife, get one year of .Mac for free.
- Amnesia10, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Actually what about those that only buy iLife intermittently. It might be better to include it free for 5 years with new macs. Personally I would like the storage increased dramatically for the same money. Also why not make it a better deal for family packs or more than a couple of years?
- f3l1x, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Think back end service integration. Access media from anywhere to anywhere. expect iPhone integration and some social networking.
- f3l1x, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1...At least with Leopard's release.
- f3l1x, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1...At least with Leopard's release.
- colincornaby, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It's about damn time.
- trunkster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I was wondering about this since Leopard has a new syncing icon in the Finder. I can't access it now but whenever I sync my iPhone it spins. I believe the update will be for syncing the iPhone to .Mac for backup which wouldn't be a bad idea...
- Shempster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I just had to re-up my service for another year, and they charged the same amount as last year... so if they do add services or reduce prices, I hope they make it retroactive a few days... :)
- adamjbuckland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6This is a rumor I can belive.. The Jobs God has hinted at .mac upgrades (he did it at D5 if I remember correctly...
- llsethj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3iWork to be updated to work with .Mac including spreadsheets app
http://www.9to5mac.com/iwork-update-august-7th-spreadsheets-54235423 - rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Anyone know what time EST or whatever is the Apple Event scheduled for?
- jcrash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+810 AM PST
- chrisgeleven, on 10/10/2007, -9/+5Which would mean 12PM EST.
- hyperpasta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Uh... no... it would mean 1PM EST, 12PM Central, 11AM Mountain, and 10AM PST... right?
- ben000, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2yes, there is a 3 hour diff there. 1PM EST is correct.
- snowwrestler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Technically it's 10am PDT, which is 1pm EDT and 12pm EST. But I think everyone in the Eastern zone observes DST now (in the U.S. at least).
Pedantic sure, but why not get it right? :-)
- hyperpasta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Uh... no... it would mean 1PM EST, 12PM Central, 11AM Mountain, and 10AM PST... right?
- FitFinlay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I have 4 days until renewal, if nothing comes tomorrow...I'm canceling
- ben000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5well, good thing they said something is coming. maybe the conference is just for you!
- stalefries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's some really good timing you got there.
- indiepenguins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I hope its the Google/Apple project thats been speculated for the past few months.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Better integration with the iApps (as someone else said) would be nice. Because of some side work I do, I needed more storage that the 1gb and so have the 2gb at the higher price. While there are certainly some better deals out there for online storage (who am I kidding, almost everyone has a better deal than this), being able to easily use things like iWeb or iPhoto can make it worth it for those with simpler needs.
I'm curious to what Apple plans to do with iWeb. It certainly has it's downsides (no master pages, graphics are recreated for each page so they tend to be bloated, truly bizarre page names), it is the simplest of the four easy-to-use Mac web page makers I've been testing (Goldfish, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, iWeb), especially with .mac. I wish Apple would untether it so it's advanced features (comments, blogs, podcasts, photo pages couldn't be easier to use) would work without 3rd party software required for some of it. Also having the ability to add html boxes would be nice as well. - chrisgeleven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I definitely hope they either lower the price and/or offer some big time improvements.
For example: there is no reason why you couldn't have .Mac syncing work for things like iTunes (so your media library's on several computers remain in sync). Talk about a killer feature.
And of course, there is the big dream of syncing your iPhone automatically with your .mac account (so stuff like contacts and calendars sync over EDGE/WiFi as you make changes). - FKnight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Maybe it's just system maintenance.
- kevinmotel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7stop ruining our speculation!
- fanclerks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I'd sure like some sort of update to .Mac tomorrow. Give me a reason to buy it Apple, come on... givae me a really good reason.
- Avian00, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed! I've been close to buying a .Mac account, but I REFUSE to given its price/feature imbalance. There are just too many free alternatives. If they made it compelling enough, I just might buy it! I certainly appreciate the integration and ease-of-use. I'm with you... give me a reason!
- mlavergn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I'll toss my hat into that ring, give me something worthwhile and I'll pay for it. Right now I get a XEN server with root access for $180 a year and use ssh/rsync to sync 3 Macs. So, give me an OS X server VM option with root access and .Mac syncing enabled for all my Macs for $199 a year and I'll switch tomorrow. Otherwise, as it stands today, the price needs to drop to the $24/year to be justifiable in my books.
- Avian00, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed! I've been close to buying a .Mac account, but I REFUSE to given its price/feature imbalance. There are just too many free alternatives. If they made it compelling enough, I just might buy it! I certainly appreciate the integration and ease-of-use. I'm with you... give me a reason!
- toetagger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0: )
- LynchMOB, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1How is Apple going to have a media event tomorrow WITHOUT the media? Did I miss something? Did the usual cryptic invites go out to the media VIP's and I missed that digg store?
- NicP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You must have missed it. Google it!
- Wilddigi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0All these rumors and speculations. The only thing I see that is shipping in 3 weeks (delayed) is the Apple Keyboard.
- akatsuki, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I want them to port everything over to re-skinned (and somewhat Ajaxified) google apps (gmail, google calendar, etc...), add 2-way syncing, and add a lot more storage.
- ben000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what does two-way synching entail? I thought that was implicit when using the word synch. Would a copy be considered a one-way synch? ha
- snowwrestler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1One-way syncing is a master/copy relationship. Changes in the master migrate to the copy, but changes to the copy stay local. Example: IMAP4.
Two-way syncing is a peer relationship. All changes are migrated in either direction. Example: iSync'ing contacts between a Mac and a cell phone.
- snowwrestler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1One-way syncing is a master/copy relationship. Changes in the master migrate to the copy, but changes to the copy stay local. Example: IMAP4.
- ben000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what does two-way synching entail? I thought that was implicit when using the word synch. Would a copy be considered a one-way synch? ha
- dalesmatrix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wasn't there going to be a feature released with 10.5 that allows you to access your computer remotely through .mac? I wonder if this update is anything to do with that.
- joel8x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I believe that is an iChat feature in 10.5
- CATSCEO, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2A .Mac/iApps and Gmail/Google Apps merger would be interesting.
- tracydanger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Maybe the gmail/google apps option could be free but be easy to sync just like current .mac stuff but then they could offer fee-for-service version that was more feature rich. I'd take the free version. I don't want to change from g-mail.
- Samtheman007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I am thinking possibly Time Machine support may be coming and they are getting ready for leopard. maybe?
- joel8x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That would be great - online backup with time machine would be a no brainer.
- kris33, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well. Would not work great if they don't change Time Machine dramatically. Now it just backup your whole HD, and you can only select files not to backup. Uploading your whole HD would take several days, maybe weeks.
- yeahbuddy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Just make .mac free with the option to purchase additional storage...bam, instant enrollments.
It's just too overpriced in this googleworld.- whiteyMcBrown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Amen, brotha
- moisie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What good would that do them? Google offer their services with advertising and so that people use their search - which has advertising. Offering .Mac free won't make people buy more Macs. I'm not saying it shouldn't be cheaper/offer more but just saying it should be free doesn't make much sense. Maybe Macs themselves should be free?
- whiteyMcBrown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Amen, brotha
- beggersfunk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1About ***** time...
- Niomi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I didn't realize .mac customers actually existed.
- malliemcg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Whatever else is announced the new hardware will be
17" 2.0GHz 64Bit C2Duo 1GB 250GB -
20" 2.4GHz 64Bit C2Duo 1GB 320GB -
24" 2.4GHz 64Bit C2Duo 1GB 320GB -
Mac Mini
1.83GHz C2Duo 32Bit 512MB 80GB Combo -
2.0GHz C2Duo 32Bit 512MB 120GB Super - - kermit71, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I want to back a free anti-virus software we used to have a few years ago.
- RuzickaOsvaldo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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