Apple emailing .Mac customers about new webmail

This looks nice, but really not justifying the cost. I wish I hadn't gotten attached to the dot mac stuff early on and bought my family mac.com email-only accounts. I'ts really not justifying the price of the service.

And the syncing between home and work machines really doesn't work that well. I'm always missing appoitments or finding old contacts in address book, that I've deleted before and just won't go away.

I didn't get the email in my mail this morning - does this mean that I am not even a member of the club of people who "aren't typically the cutting edge, AJAX-slinging type." I guess I live on the ...handle?

"It'd be pretty cool if Apple could offer the code behind this as a software package for corporations - I've worked at a few where there is no email client, just webmail." -John P.

That would certainly sell more XServes if this was the default webmail client on OS X Server.

I certainly hope Apple isn't placing their hopes for .Mac subscriptions into a GUI overhaul of their Webmail app. .Mac is overpriced and underfeatured, no matter what it looks like. For $99 I need more than a "new look" for the part of the package I use the least.

One interesting thing is that I have not received any sort of email talking about the new webmail, although my subscription doesn't expire until June.

Apple's mail execution, whether it be Mail.app or .Mac mail, is horribly weak. Furthermore, .Mac as a whole, sucks.
mail.app isn't a true .html capable mail client, which our friends on the PC side have had forever. We'll get that in 10.5.
.Mac's email interface is as clunky as it gets. Logging onto my exchange server at work looks equal or better.
.Mac calendars aren't password protected, and don't allow web-based management.
They need to upgrade more than the web-mail client for me to renew. It's expensive - it should be uber-best-of-breed for the money. Otherwise Apple can look for their old .Mac customers on Google.

Yo.

My .Mac is up for renewal in 6 days, and I'm still planning on letting it go. New webmail -- big deal. I have several servers and enough storage space, but the main thing I used was Homepage. After I found that Apple actually removed the direct one-button functionality from iPhoto to Homepage I had used for years, I lost the love.

Apple wants us to use iWeb now-- well, Homepage was perfect for me and my quick but functional web galleries. Why would I use iWeb when I already know GoLive for static and have several servers to use for my sites? Why should Apple force me to use iWeb and actually remove functionality from iPhoto '06? (OK, remove the button if you must, but leave a menu item maybe??). The work around is kludgy, and I now am going to just create the galleries using Galerie and my own webspace.

The only think I am going to miss now without .Mac is syncing my wife's iBook's Address book with my Powerbook and iMac. But I'll figure out a way.

Webmail, schmebmail.

Forget about WebMail. It is a just facade to get email in & out. Maybe with the transition to intel complete, ipods coming out of our ears, etc we can have a bit of attention for the orphan which is .mac. It only gets a little present every year at the beginning of fall. Maybe this year it'll actually be too late too. (my acct renews on the 8th)

The #1 complaint about .mac / iDisk is still the same: the need for speed. I don't know if it is the Finder or iDisk or both, but things move at about 1/3 my upload capacity.

#2 True support. A phone #? Live chat? ... Emails rather than canned responses which actually acknowledge a problem with .mac speed? Rather than repeatedly pointing fingers at my system and my isp? Saying there is some overhead, bla bla. Forget about it. If I can FTP 90 KB/s sustained; I want to sync & upload at 90KB/s sustained.

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Anyhow. It is really sad that all Apple does is a little bump here and there every year. It doesn't stand behind .mac or it would have resolved a lot of issues already and made good on what it says it offers.

I say this is going to roll out in about a month.

> This could likely mean that it truly is 'coming soon' (as in, not the Microsoft Vista 'coming soon' kind of way)

Would it be like the vaporware .mac-only dashboard widgets that made me feel like I was going to get more value from.mac, but didn't show? I'll bet Vista is out before those, not that I'd touch Vista with a 10 meter pole.