Saying "goodbye" to .Mac

I do have to say that I like the new MobileMe service for the most part, although I'm not too crazy about them de-emphasizing the web hosting aspect of .Mac and I definitely don't like the name.

I wouldn't consider signing up if I didn't already have my "@mac.com" e-mail address from a free trial I had in the past. Apple should at least give new subscribers a choice between "@mac.com" and "@me.com", but judging by the new sign-up page, it doesn't look like they are planning on it. If it's out of concern that non-Mac users will be using the e-mail address (don't see why that would be a problem anyway), they could at least let you do it if you signed up using a Mac or if you can prove you owned a Mac somehow.

All I can say is, good upgrade, poor branding....and that's something that's not like Apple.

.Mac was a great domain for email but crap service, always failing and slllloooowwww.

@me.com, an email at that domain, just the thought of it makes me gag.

There has to be a better alternative. The marketing guy who thought of this should be flogged.

Well at least it lives on in a new name! I'm excited about MobileMe in a way I never was about .Mac

There are files on my iDisk that have been there since iTools launched in 2000 (at least I think so - was iDisk available from the beginning?). Given the number of computers, hard drives, web hosts and so on that I've gone through in those years is sort of amazing.

Me in the name scares me. reminds me of WindowsME. also i realized i used 'me' a lot in this comment.

People seem to scoff at most of the new Apple product names. remember all the silly commotion about "Macbook and Macbook Pro". who cares?

Can't believe no-one's criticised the daft .Mac name. I mean, if they'd bought the .mac top-level domain (which they can now do), it would make sense. But the email addresses end in mac.com so it always seemed wrong to me, and a knee-jerk reaction to M$ who were then talking non-stop about .Net.

My favorite .Mac moment was when it erased all my contacts after a bad sync. That was awesome.

Can't wait, but then again, I sure will miss .Mac, but not as much as I missed iTools, I kicked and screamed about the $99 price tag for quite awhile. After mowing a few yards to pay for it I was alright though. I think I was 13 at the time.

I've been a Windows user for a long time, looking over in envy at my friends on Macs. Vista was the final nail for me and I got a shiny new iMac in January. I wanted to surround myself in Apple, and went with iWorks over Office and also signed up for .Mac. To me, .Mac is part of the Apple experience and there was no question about signing up for it, it was essential.

My website is held on my .Mac account, my main email is my @mac.com address and will be for the foreseeable future, I have been sending iCards and keeping my system preferences and contacts backed up automatically with .Mac.

I'm glad that .Mac is evolving. I, like most people, am a bit unsure about the name, but all in all I think that we are getting more value for money. I will definitely miss the iCards however. So long live .Mac! albeit as MobileMe.