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