Comments on: Goodbye .mac

By: Pip

Pip — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:05:51 +0000

I entered my link address wrong before, by the way. Whomever runs that site is not me, and would probably not appreciate me taking inadvertant credit for their site.

By: Pip

Pip — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:04:32 +0000

I have several domains, and would always choose to use my .mac email address, because it’s just so elite and snooty; I love it.

Apple, unfortunately, will never offer wordpress-like blogging because Apple is focussing on Mac-enabled publishing: all of their web publishing features force folks to rely on iPhoto for galleries, iWeb for blogging, GarageBand for podcasting…

Doing this enables them to provide a greater sense of value to their desktop products and to enourage developers to create little gems like StickyBrain and ComicLife that can integrate with .Mac by the simple virtue of proprietary transfer protocols.

Granted, these tools are limiting for more experienced folk – iWeb’s blog, for example, has no comment feature and a highly limited feature set, as well as relying on Apple-designed templates, but eh… .mac isn’t really aimed at more experienced folk.

Still, I find the $69/year (always buy the day after Thanksgiving) perfectly acceptible for an email address I like with less-than-powerful but very clean GUI webmail, iDisk, and the AddressBook and Safari Bookmark syncronization.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:36:17 +0000

<p>stevelam@mac.com is pretty cool but surely steve@stevelam.org is much better?</p>

<p>Why don’t you just use your domain’s email?</p>

By: steveo

steveo — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:42:01 +0000

I totally agree. I kept sending them feedback about adding a blog software like wordpress. It would also be awesome if you can host your domain with your .mac account. I really miss using iDisk.

By: Ahmer

Ahmer — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:11:12 +0000

I think that .mac should just have a customized wordpress for thier “blog” feature if they ever make one…