Rumor: Apple to increase .Mac, iDisk storage to 30GB at Macworld

Amen Charles Miller. It's no wonder bloggers aren't seen as real journalists.

David, here's a handy reference site you might want to use next time:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/surmounting

Oops! Sorry! for some reason the activation email was sent twice, now I have two of the same message! Sorry!

Great, I just got .mac for X-mas. Good timing.

Michael
TiBook_Guy@mac.com

"...the surmounting criticism..."?

It's probably a good idea not to use words you don't understand. :)

Just to clarify this for some people here.

Upgrading the iDisk storage would make perfect sense because of Time Machine. But there is one major flaw. Take you iDisk speed right now - not really slow but not really fast either. Also imagine how many people actually use their iDisk a lot - not too many of those either (cost is way too much for so little). If they upgraded the space to 30GB, all of a sudden it would be useful again - very useful because now you can use Time Machine to backup to your iDisk. People would be using it a a LOT more than now. That would mean that your current speed of data transfer to your iDisk will be cut in half or more. And trying to transfer up to 30GB of data to it, and then back again later?? Yea right. Apple would have to pretty much own their own ISP to house all that traffic! That would be interesting, but highly improbable.

Don't get me wrong though, I would love them to upgrade the iDisk space and such if they had decent speeds and it was cheaper / faster than simply buying an external drive (which will pretty much never happen). I am sticking with the external drive.

(Sorry to burst some people's bubbles, but its true! So bite me :P )

Just to clarify this for some people here.

Upgrading the iDisk storage would make perfect sense because of Time Machine. But there is one major flaw. Take you iDisk speed right now - not really slow but not really fast either. Also imagine how many people actually use their iDisk a lot - not too many of those either (cost is way too much for so little). If they upgraded the space to 30GB, all of a sudden it would be useful again - very useful because now you can use Time Machine to backup to your iDisk. People would be using it a a LOT more than now. That would mean that your current speed of data transfer to your iDisk will be cut in half or more. And trying to transfer up to 30GB of data to it, and then back again later?? Yea right. Apple would have to pretty much own their own ISP to house all that traffic! That would be interesting, but highly improbable.

Don't get me wrong though, I would love them to upgrade the iDisk space and such if they had decent speeds and it was cheaper / faster than simply buying an external drive (which will pretty much never happen). I am sticking with the external drive.

(Sorry to burst some people's bubbles, but its true! So bite me :P )

Apple needs to up the capacity to at least 2 gigs for the main account and 1GB for all sub-accounts on the Family Pack. iCal really needs to be editable online like Google calendar is.

why does iDisk in this movie under OSX show only 128MB instead of the 1GB?

I am using .mac for a couple of years now, and beside some minor outages it was very stable. Starting yesterday IMAP access stops & starts working again. This morning the webmail interface did not work for some time. I wsould guess there is some serious upgrading going on at the moment which supports at least the idea of some kind of update to .mac

Even if the capacity were upped, instead of this being a hoax or a bug, it is still simply too little too late.

.Mac was useful and relevant once, but it has for far too long been eclipsed by other free services that are arguably better in every way.

Now if Yojimbo would just create another way to sync info without .Mac (perhaps to any WebDAV server) then I would never even have to 'consider' .Mac. As it stands, that isn't reason enough, though.