.Mac + mobileMe = Still a Rip off
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- hiimerik
Who are they trying to fool with this rebranding effort of .Mac, the major reason I started to distrust Apple was when I worked as a sales yokel there and would just flat out refuse to sell that crappy product. $120 Canadian per year my ass...
I use dreamhost and I get all that lovely functionality including video chat through iChat using Jabber... Or if you want some of it for free use gMail.
I wish .Mac, err, mobileMe would just die.
- nearestexit0
The only reason i use .mac is for synching bookmarks on safari.
- You're joking right?... You can do that with firefox for free...kalkal
- i know. but i use safari.nearestexit
- I just threw up on my keyboard.hiimerik
- googles synch plugin does it all.nearestexit
- you threw up on your keyboard because i use safari?nearestexit
- safari no good my friendSoulFly
- what's wrong with safari?nearestexit
- It's shit. Nuff said. Move on.kalkal
- honestly, i think it works fine.nearestexit
- though i wish it had some of firefox's plugins. like the Web Developer.nearestexit
- (it has that now)
BUT, FF 3 is far and away a more pleasant browser all-aroundmadirish - safari is the best browser on the mac. On PC I use FF tho (scrolling on FF sucks on mac)ernexbcn
- safari wins allavolve
- Firefox 3 wins all.kalkal
- FF3 is far better on a fast mac, but if you running anything old like me, safari is much]\bettercoldy
- safari + 5meffid
- nearestexit0
overall, .mac is a pretty worthless service.
- nearestexit0
not part of .mac, but still uses a .mac account for synching... i also use yojimbo, a great application for keeping notes, etc. it'd be nice if they made a web version of this app so i access it anywhere.
- PIITB0
.mac is pretty cool when used to sync macs using back to my mac.
- sublocked0
.crap
fail.app
- hiimerik0
epicFail.app
- PIITB0
buncha haters.
- ESPtype0
my mom uses .mac
... thats what its good for
- DeviceUnseen0
The only thing that makes it somewhat interesting is the addition of push.
- PIITB0
Im using .mac right now bitches. Sending files to my idisk
- 2cents0
The whole point of MobileMe is to sync you phone to your computer. Makes a whole lot of sense to me. You don't like to have data entered on you phone sync'd to your computer or vice versa? Do you like entering things twice?
- imnotadesigner0
Im using .mac too, syncing my shit is easy as shit
- nearestexit0
Previously, you would have to dock your iPhone and use iTunes to do this. Not very convenient.
- imnotadesigner0
Can someone add you to their ichat contact list using using an alias?
- imnotadesigner0
Using a .mac alias of course
- sublocked0
i have an at&t tilt and it syncs just fine with my macbook...without .mac! imagine that.........
- skelly_b0
i think the service looks pretty good. really can't think of a better way to synch all that data across a phone, laptop and desktop. plus the web interface looks slick if you don't have access to any of those.
- ismith0
It's a rip off for people who have the time + knowledge to do it themselves. But for the rest of the world (who could definitely use the features in mobileme) it's hardly a problem to pay $100/yr for the ability to sync much of your digital data no matter where you are.
- ernexbcn0
They should have done this with Google pairing it with google ads and make it free for every mac user.
- designbot0
So the new iphone can sync you phone to your computer.....what most phones were doing in the 90's? Sweet.