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Should Apple make .Mac free?
Moby Cock writes "The recent display of iLife '06 at Macworld showed that the suite has a very fine integration with .Mac, Apple's subscription-based web portal. In a recent post to his blog on ZDNet, Dan Farber argues that a .Mac subscription ought to be included with the purchase of an Apple computer. There is no doubt that web portals are huge revenue engines, could Apple be missing an opportunity here?"
Uhm... I don't think this is even a relevent topic. It used to be free. Then it started costing them too much money so they started charging for it. I'm sure slashdot covered it. Oh... yes they did
Kyle
http://www.unlogikal.net/
I bought a macmini and I got a mac.com account free for 30 or 60 days. Saw what it was about. Got some "you should pay $100 to keep this" spam, and let my account lapse.
It was very cool that they gave me a free shot at it so I could see what I was getting into.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
They did.
The Nag screen has been gone since Quicktime 7, which came out a few months ago.
Colin Davis
About .Mac data transfer limits
Hear hear! I am so bloody sick of everything being covered in Ads these days. I'm a .mac subscriber and the lack of Ads is a big deal. I don't want to subject my friends/family to more ads just to view my content.
I barely know any AppleScript, but here is a simple script which, assuming you have one video open in QuickTime, will play it full-screen:
All Apple computers do come with a free 3-month trial of .Mac, and Apple frequently offers partial rebates on .Mac when it's purchased at the same time as a new machine ($30 or so)
.mac subscription fees.
http://www.apple.com/promo/getmore/
They do try to ease new users into the
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
I was actually hoping that Apple would release the server side items necessary to allow independent hosting companies to host .mac-like services. Apple would still be able to sell iWeb as the means for easy desktop publishing and still have it's own .mac accounts.
.Mac is just a WebDAV server with Apple's own additional authentication added onto it. These instructions tell how you can spoof your Mac (with your own IP for mac.com) into thinking that your own webdav server is .Mac.
.Mac thing, but it looks pretty do-able. I just wish that Apple would make the setting of your own WebDav/.Mac server an easy configuration. Those of us who already paying for our own hardware aren't going to fork over more $$ for .Mac, so just let us do our own thing without hassle.
As far as I know, much of
I ended up setting up an 'rdiff-backup'-based backup system instead, so I never bothered to do the
- Adam
"When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind." -- Bill Moyers
I own a PowerBook and tried to watch the keynote using QuickTime but it was so choppy I had to give it up.
I downloaded VLC http://www.videolan.org/ and it plays beautifully.
And you get fullscreen with no mucking about.
This player is extremely powerful, native players for every O/S under the sun.
And you can *save* the stream to just about any format you like on the fly.
10.3.x is actually significantly speedier than 10.2.x, and you can get copies of that fairly cheaply now that 10.4 is out. Most of 10.4's features will probably not be worth the upgrade on that slow of a machine, but 10.3 would certainly be worth the upgrade.
.Mac gained about 400,000 customers last year to reach 1M customers. That is a fairly substantial growth. At an attach rate of $50-75 per account this represents a $50M revenue source a year. Not to mention people who buy iLife ($79) for its iPhoto, Mail and now iWeb integration.
Give that away for yet another ad ridden "portal" with a Me-too consumer experience? D'oh.