techcrunch.com — "I agree that .mac is Apple?s most difficult to use product and needs a lot of work. However, I think that the changes are important for one reason: There are very few Ajax webmail services today that allow users to access multiple email accounts. .Mac will be one of them."
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b403Sep 29, 2006
i'm going to get dug down to hell, but i'll say it none the less because it needs to be said: get with gmail already, fanboys
mmyoungmmSep 29, 2006
Features? What features? I'm not renewing .Mac next month, after giving it a final 1-year chance to improve. However, I do not like the idea of storing anything on the Internet, where it could be open to hackers or some government nut on a career-boosting witch-hunt.Please don't confuse this with paranoia: increasing potential exposure is always liable to just plain exposure of whatever you may deem to be private. I don't have anything that would disturb me by "leaking" out, it's the principle that matters. Privacy is a right and should be exercised, just as illegal actions should be punished actively. But we are in an era of a crumbling Constitution and a weakened Bill of Rights. Draw the line where you can.Besides all that, I find iDisk slow and unnecessary, Mail is superfluous and is at best a backup. iCal is useful on my screen but not on the Internet (for me), and I frankly cannot think of one .Mac function that I cannot live without. And, I will have that $99 to spend on something else that I probably don't really need.
radixusSep 29, 2006
@ serpicolugnutYour points on .Mac were right on. This new webmail is a step in the correct direction. But I see it stopping dead in its tracks. As everybody knows on the .Mac site they merely mention "coming soon". No release date or anything. You mentioned the .Mac exclusive widgets - those never released and got tagged the same way. So I'm not really holding my breath for this AJAX based web client. Sure they say coming soon, but in Apple talk when it comes down to .Mac means close to never.Homepage is horrible . . . Today where domain names cost 10 bucks or less, nobody wants a URL <a class="user" href="http://homepage.mac.com/-username-,">http://homepage.mac.com/-username-,</a> that's creepy back to the old AOL days.So again, I'm not holding my breath . . . they've burned us .Mac members too many time with promises of change! So when I go to log into my webmail and see this new web app, I'll be excited there. Apple really just posted that to keep people from dropping the service, only to give them nothing.
randfSep 29, 2006
mmyoungmm,step away from the crack pipe....
Closed AccountSep 29, 2006
ah yes, but how does this compare to <a class="user" href="http://www.litepost.com">http://www.litepost.com</a> ????
Closed AccountSep 29, 2006
@serpicolugnut"Gmail is popular because the storage is vast and it is free. Other than that, it's crap. The interface is just one step up..." I totally agree. Litepost.com is going to be another beast entirely, you can tell from who's behind it...ABSOLUTELY!
kazrogSep 29, 2006
I'm eagerly awaiting the new webmail. I am so ready!!