Big changes coming to .Mac?

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how about a *.mac for your own domain? like Gmail offer?

just a thought.

(and agree with the price lowering - 50% should be good for me, would happily pay for it then!) It's £70 ($140 ish) over here in the UK.

stu

I should point out that Russian Mac shop Deep Apple discovered this first: http://www.deepapple.com/news/30776.html

Thanks!

Don't forget Apple registered the trademark "Mobile Me" a few years back ...

I'll ad my 2 cents:
1) In the past few weeks, .Mac has been under maintenance quite a lot of time. I'm in Europe so these downtime affect me during the day and it never happened before.
2) As I have a lot of issues with speed on my iDisk, I've been emailing with a .Mac Specialist (which seems to be an upper level as the first-level support) to try to resolve the issue and he told me that the .Mac system was under maintenance, they were modifying some things so this could also affect my speed...

However, if the email addresses @mac.com are just replaced by something else I'd be disappointed. One of the reason of my subscription is to be able to have an easy email address that I thought would keep "for life". Or at least for a long time.
After my two previous ISP were bought out and just dropped their @extension.be I was kind of angry.

I never said nuthin' about it as I figured it was just a glitch, but a couple of months ago my Finder showed that I had 1 TB of space remaining in my iDisk. I had that reading for a week before it reverted to the normal allocation.

There's also the file in /System/Library/CoreServices/AOS.bundle

from Contents/Resources/AOS.strings
AOS_BRAND = ".Mac";
AOS_DOMAIN = "mac.com";

Suggests a modular approach with a new .bundle files to install for a new service...?

New Name: Apple Connect or iConnect

Agreed. I've been paying for .Mac for years, but I always feel like I'm getting ripped off. If it would just allow reliable and invisible wireless syncing between my Macs, future iPhone, etc. I would be happy. And push e-mail pretty please??? All the pieces are in place, it just seems like they don't care about .Mac. I hope this is true, as it would be a huge missed opportunity not to tie it in more with the 3G iPhone and iPhone 2.0 software.

Let me just point to this story, about a 100GB .mac which I saw on my idisk a while back...

http://digg.com/apple/iDisk_to_gain_a_significant_upgrade