Comments on: Apple’s .Mac service: Promising features marred by spotty performance http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/12/04/apples-mac-service-promising-features-marred-by-spotty-performance/ WTMB. WYSIWYG (YABB), but YKTD: GIGO. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mista Carruth http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/12/04/apples-mac-service-promising-features-marred-by-spotty-performance/#comment-24 Mista Carruth Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:52:21 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/12/04/frontpage/#comment-24 my bad on the link... http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/20/sync-data-without-mac/ my bad on the link…

http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/20/sync-data-without-mac/

]]> By: Mista Carruth http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/12/04/apples-mac-service-promising-features-marred-by-spotty-performance/#comment-23 Mista Carruth Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:50:05 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/12/04/frontpage/#comment-23 I agree...I bought a .Mac account back in '03 (12" iBook *sniff, sniff*), and it was utterly underwhelming and woefully overpriced. Email address? don't need another one. Viral protection? Isn't a big selling platform for Macs the need to NOT have viral protection...something's rotten in denmark. iDisk? Cool, but not 99$ cool...besides there are plenty of free online data archival sites (Xdrive is well established) Backup? Again...not 99$ cool One click publising? Seriously, that's user friendly..something that should be built into the OS...especically considering that all prevalent modern OS's have FTP built in...come on, make it easy to use!! Photocasting? Want podcasting to catch on? Want people to use itunes to download...get them hooked? Then make it easy (and free!) to publish photocasts. Shared Calendars? One of my favorite features (Famous Birthdays, DVD Releases, Book Releases, etc)...but come on..another feature that should be free. As for the much vaunted Synch...a quick google turned this up " http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/20/sync-data-without-mac/" Seems to me that Apple is trying to squeeze more revenue off a few decent ideas that should have been integrated into the OS in the first place, but then again, WTF do I know. -Carruth I agree…I bought a .Mac account back in ‘03 (12″ iBook *sniff, sniff*), and it was utterly underwhelming and woefully overpriced.
Email address? don’t need another one.
Viral protection? Isn’t a big selling platform for Macs the need to NOT have viral protection…something’s rotten in denmark.
iDisk? Cool, but not 99$ cool…besides there are plenty of free online data archival sites (Xdrive is well established)
Backup? Again…not 99$ cool
One click publising? Seriously, that’s user friendly..something that should be built into the OS…especically considering that all prevalent modern OS’s have FTP built in…come on, make it easy to use!!
Photocasting? Want podcasting to catch on? Want people to use itunes to download…get them hooked? Then make it easy (and free!) to publish photocasts.
Shared Calendars? One of my favorite features (Famous Birthdays, DVD Releases, Book Releases, etc)…but come on..another feature that should be free.
As for the much vaunted Synch…a quick google turned this up ” http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/20/sync-data-without-mac/”

Seems to me that Apple is trying to squeeze more revenue off a few decent ideas that should have been integrated into the OS in the first place, but then again, WTF do I know.

-Carruth

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