.Mac improvements still not good enough
Posted on September 29, 2004
Filed Under Macintosh
I signed up for “.Mac”:http://www.mac.com shortly after the revamped service replaced eTools over 2 years ago. It wasn’t cheap even with the charter discount, but I thought it would evolve into something worth having and holding on to. I loved the promise of tight integration between .Mac and the OS. I am not in love with what turned out to be the reality.
Two years later, and my subscription is set to expire in 14 days. I renewed last year with some hesitation. I don’t use the email address, My iChat ID comes from an AIM account I’ve had forever, I have my own hosted email and web space. I tried every .Mac feature at one time or another but eventually phased them all out. Good ideas, one and all, but buggy and slow execution.
So now .Mac “has increased the web storage to 250MB from 100MB and added some other enhancements.”:http://www.mac.com/1/mailnewfeatures.html Tempting, but unless there’s a patch for Panther that makes iDisk usable and reliable, I think I’m going to let the clock run down.
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I think there will be a mass exodus in fourteen days, because that is when my account is set to expire. Giving Apple two years worth of dues for only the ability to sync my calendar, contacts, and bookmarks isn’t worth it anymore. Now, if only I could find an alternative solution for iSync that takes advantage of http://FTP.
Judi… I think Apple can do better, but I am looking beyond the limited storage. If anyone else could come up with a way to elegantly sync addressbooks, calendars and data across multiple computers, I’d certainly consider it. But Apple does it well, and since this is something I really need, my wife and I each got .Mac accounts and use them regularly. To me, the $99 per year is well worth it.