07/20/2005, 8:45am, EDT

Wednesday, July 20th

Apple limits .Mac bandwidth, offers upgrade option

Apple has introduced a new bandwidth/storage upgrade option for its suite of .Mac web services, effectively placing a limit on the amount of data each account can share. Previously, Apple had been generous with the allocation of bandwidth from user accounts, only shutting those accounts it found abusive. The new option offers greater storage flexibility as well as allows users to share more photos, files, and videos or transfer more data to/from their iDisk. The standard option offers the same 250MB of combined email/iDisk storage offered to users in the past and 3GB of monthly transfer. The upgrade offers the ability to purchase 1GB of storage and a 10GB monthly transfer limit for $50 and may be needed by some users as Apple pushes developers to integrate their applications with .Mac and focuses on seamless integration of .Mac with the operating system, including recent Tiger-specific features. .Mac is available for $100/year or for $180 per year for a family pack.

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macmad

.Mac

07/20, 8:56am, EDT

really is becoming too litle for too much.

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burger

Bawahahahaha

07/20, 9:25am, EDT

What a great deal! Glad I ddot out when they started charging.

BTW- For $7.77 a month you can get this-

5000MB Storage 300GB Tranfer a month Free setup and domain 650 pop email accounts + webmail and tons more

www.powweb.com

Pft.

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dootbran

re: .Mac

07/20, 9:28am, EDT

It all depends on how you use it, if you just use it for web hosting/email then, yeah maybe it is. But if you have a couple macs or like being able to access your bookmarks & address book from anywhere then maybe its not. I've moved my website over to a better hosting solution w/ php scripting but I've still kept my .mac account for its more unique features.

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phe

re: .Mac

07/20, 10:00am, EDT

Exactly... I use .Mac for synching data on 4 machines, and having a nice web-based GUI for access to the same data when I'm not at one of those boxes. The other stuff, mail, backup, hosting... Gmail might be a bit better in terms of email, an external drive for backup, and powweb is definitely a good choice for hosting. On the other hand, it's a beautiful thing to have them all together... have the no-brainer publishing, still have yet another copy of those really important documents, and a few of the perks that Apple throws your way now and then even pay off, too. All in all, .Mac is a winner for us.

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zac4mac

ya I remember powweb...

07/20, 10:22am, EDT

They were one of the pioneers of popup/flash ads - fukkem

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testudo

GMail

07/20, 1:29pm, EDT

People keep talking about gmail being this great substitute. I guess if you don't mind you emails being changed/advertised in, and being stuck using a web interface all the time, its perfect.

Me, I have enough email accounts all over that I like to get my mail in a dedicated mail program. Makes Gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc, not exactly time-saving.

Plus GMail is still in beta. (And keep in mind one reason people use it is to try to use it as off-line storage, while Google may restrict in the future with file limits and all).

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giantmike

Re GMail

07/20, 1:39pm, EDT

The emails sent and received through Gmail do NOT get changed. The only advertising is if you use the web base interface. Text based ads (like the ones you see on many websites), are then put on the page, but are not inserted in the actual email.

Also, Gmail allows for POP access (and has for MANY months). I have been using it this way for quite some time to get my gmail through mail.app.

I agree that gmail is no replacement for .Mac, but you must really get your facts straight.

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mmintler

overpriced

07/20, 3:56pm, EDT

An already overpriced service... Apple touts .mac as a reason OS X is better. Encouraging people to switch so they can easily create, then share photos,videos,etc.. and then ask them to pay $150 a year to do it? For $100 its already over priced for the storage/bandwidth allocation. IF it weren't for syncing no one would even think about buying this service. And all the little "gifs" apple gives .mac subscribers are mostly worthless (at least to me). Apple, give me a discount on the next os release and I'll be happy...lol

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dwishbone

add other technologies

07/20, 4:20pm, EDT

if apple is going to charge extra now why dont they make it worth while by adding mysql/postgres and php support to .mac? then maybe id do it.

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drbones666

Typical Apple

07/20, 9:09pm, EDT

Charge more... Get Less. Yay Apple!!!!

Just another reason why I don't have a .mac account and question the intelligence of anyone who does.

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