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New .Mac webmail Not Enough Reason to Stay (for me, anyway) - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
Apple is promoting the new .Mac webmail. But, I don’t think it is enough to convince me to spend $100 (or $80 through Amazon) to renew my subscription. So, like others in this blog and elsewhere, I think I will vote with my wallet and leave.
I just let my .Mac membership lapse as well. I had gotten a couple notices about it and was about to just reflexively renew, when I thought about it for a moment and realized that I never use it except to send eCards, which I can do without a membership. The only mail I ever got there was promo stuff from Apple, I never think to use the iDisk, and Backup has nothing on SuperDuper. There's $99 or however much saved. I just switched the few things that did use that address to my gmail account.
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Same here. My sub lapsed two days ago. I also use SuperDuper to a fat backup drive, and it works much more seamlessly/sensibly than the backup app.
I moved my iCal calendars to free, private hosting on icalx.com with Google Calendars subscribing to them at that URL. Since I use Firefox as my default browser, I've been taking advantage of Google Browser Sync for bookmark/history syncing, though with WebNoteHappy, "deep" bookmarking is pretty much in del.icio.us's domain already.
Since my lockout scare with gmail and because Mail.app has nice Spotlight-based smart folders, I'm having a hard time giving myself over to crawling into gmail and living there, so I have a split/forward from my primary mail account to gmail just to see how it feels.
If Apple had at least incrementally improved .Mac over the two or three years I had it, I might have stuck with it. But it mostly seemed like "more of the same that others are doing for free, with none of the goodies in the way of decent software discounts or other freebies." The .Mac blog was consistently pitched at newbies, too. Meh.
Posted by: mph | October 27, 2006 5:43 PM