Oooch! Think you... missed the... spleen there, David... move that knife over a smidge -- ah, better.

:-)

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As a .Mac user, all I can say is... ABOUT DAMN TIME.

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...and the top "tip" on the .mac home page is "Is your browser up to date?". Maybe they want to prep everyone for the refresh...

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I'm glad you were able to overcome your unbridled rage regarding the revealing of Fake Steve in order to continue posting here. You truly are a hero of the people, David.

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Down for two hours? Does that mean the announcement might be two hours long?

Searching for clues is fun!

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It's "à la iPhoto", not "a là iPhoto". A nitpick, I know, but I need to defend the use of my mother tongue ;)

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i think .mac is the maybe the most shameful way that apple has of insulting its customers today. having said that, i'm also very frustrated at how darn convenient it is, and i use it at least weekly, if not daily.

if only - please please please - apple is going to announce changes to .mac that will make the $99 conscionable. fortunately, i don't ahve the sting of paying for it (i get it free from my company) but as a consumer advocate i shudder at the product.

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Down 2 hours tomorrow?!?!? How about the 2+ hrs (and counting) that I can't get my .mac mail today?

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I think the best change for .Mac would be a $99 reduction in yearly fees. Other than that I think it's a swell service.

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I haven't used .mac since they announced it wasn't free anymore. I miss it. But I'm not going back until it's free, or at least until they have "scaling" service levels, such as "free", "extended" and "pro".

Basically it's the sync stuff that I can't live without. Syncing iCal and Address Book across multiple computers (I have 3 plus iPhone) seems like, in this day and age, should be a standard and free service. I love iCal but I can't really use it unless the info is synced across all my machines.

Sync with Google Cal would be swell too!

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Eli -

Jesus... give it a rest dude. Everyone makes mistakes. David's entitled to some as well. Do all of your comments have to be invectives against him?

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.MAC should go the way of e-world. In fact, e-world was much better. .MAC is an under performing Apple service, unless, of course you want to sync, your Safari bookmarks. Yippee!

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And yet everyone seems to forget that during The D in May, when Steve and Bill were on stage ntogether with Walt . Here the iTunes link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=256972720
I can't remember where it is but this is what was said:
Walt "When you bought a Mac, you had this internet service back end called .Mac and I think a lot of people feel you haven't developed it much"

Steve "I couldn't agree w/ you more, and I think we'll make up for lost time in the near feature"

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I still use .mac and find it indispensable for a home-business I have created. I wish it would add filemaker database hosting, I think that is a no brainer and would greatly improve the utility of it as a solution. Really FMP and dot mac, together with ilife and desktop apps could create an incredible web publishing platform. I would really like to see that sort of evolution.

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I can't figure out why i bought .Mac to begin with. email accounts ending in .Mac should be free with your computer and then you should be able to spend some cash if you want to upgrade your account.

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If you look at this video from D5:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OhDL48ulKyw
Steve mentions "backend internet services," possibly hinting at a .Mac refresh, or even a total overhaul.

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well it'd be hard for Apple to make .Mac any worse, but one can dream... (I should probably backup my old homepage.mac content tonight huh?)

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When I turned on my Mac this morning it said that synching would change more than 5% of my ical entries. As it turns out it changed (although not in a way I understand) 44 entries.

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