.Mac Revamp Planned
This message in the system status section of .Mac:
January 13, 2005
The .Mac suite of services will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm PT on January 15, 2005. All web based services, iChat and iDisk access will be unavailable. Email access (POP and IMAP) from a client application will be unaffected.
Suspect the long awaited increase of storage to 1GB and enhanced benefits is taking place tomorrow.
January 13, 2005
The .Mac suite of services will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm PT on January 15, 2005. All web based services, iChat and iDisk access will be unavailable. Email access (POP and IMAP) from a client application will be unaffected.
Suspect the long awaited increase of storage to 1GB and enhanced benefits is taking place tomorrow.
Comments
Originally posted by TRowell
Suspect the long awaited increase of storage to 1GB and enhanced benefits is taking place tomorrow.
That would be extremely cool, but I think unlikely given that they only just increased the standard to 250MB at the tail end of last year. Fingers crossed though .
I hope Apple is doing a major upgrade to the infrastructure to get it ready for Tiger. Speed and quality is what I want next.
(But of course, new feature would be nice too. ;-)
i'm just betting on speed increases myself, but i'll take extra space, especially if apple starts wanting every new mac mini owner to start sharing their home movies online.
I hate how Gmail, which is free, has us beat in terms of storage. I guess since it's not an online hard drive Google is less worried about people using 100% of that 1gb offered.
Whereas with .Mac having a 1gb hard drive, everyone would pile files on it using up terrabytes worth of bandwidth every day and it would end up costing Apple quite a bit more than .Mac costs to run currently.
Just my $0.02 (but it seems logical, doesn't it?)
But what if they DID up it to 1gb and allowed us to use the iDisk up to a maximum of 250mb forcing us to have a minimum of 750mb for email? I'd be happy with that. .Mac would beat Gmail then (well, close) AND still have all the benefits of .Mac.
I'd be VERY happy with that!
I forgot the wording in the email, but it was something to the effect of "As a longtime .Mac member we're giving you additional space at no extra charge".
Maybe everyone will get upgraded now.
"The .Mac suite of services will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm PT on January 22, 2005. All web based services, iChat and iDisk access will be unavailable. Email access (POP and IMAP) from a client application will be unaffected."
.mail updated/graded/whatever.
Macminis are supposedly released that day
And there are rubblings down here that iTMA Australia will go live that day due to Apple changing some sort of privacy policy that day.
I don't suppose anyone noticed any hooks or special aspects to any of these apps with regard to iLife on the expo floor?
I was looking at the Quicktime 7 preview that's in the new Tiger preview area at Apple.com, and one of the features of QT 7 Pro (they kind of sneak that in) is that you can use the "Send..." command to email someone a movie or upload it to Homepage. They only show the email choice in the movie, but you can see an icon called "Homepage" in the sheet that drops down. That doesn't say much about what would be new, but I wonder if they will, if they're smart, offer a QT 7 Pro discount to .Mac members to take better advantage of this. Probably not though. \
Overall, I think the whole .Mac homepage thing, aside from new themes for pages, could use a good revamp. It would be nice to pick a theme for your web site overall, a la Keynote and Pages, then simply lay out stuff on your choice of pages. I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud that the .Mac team could learn something from those apps. I also wonder if there would be some sort of more elegant interactive connection between .Mac and iWork and iCal.
Originally posted by BuonRotto
Overall, I think the whole .Mac homepage thing, aside from new themes for pages, could use a good revamp. It would be nice to pick a theme for your web site overall, a la Keynote and Pages, then simply lay out stuff on your choice of pages. I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud that the .Mac team could learn something from those apps. I also wonder if there would be some sort of more elegant interactive connection between .Mac and iWork and iCal.
I was thinking exactly that when Pages was introduced... .Mac support would be KILLER... not exactly as good as an apple blog app, but might get me back into writing again... the 22nd does seem to be some kind of deadline tho... what will show up in the next 7 days?
Originally posted by iDunno
only 3.5 hours until .Mac goes down for it's upgrade. Any ideas on whether or not we will see improvements, or will it simply be some back end fine tuning that we won't even notice?
I bet it is just some tuning. They just upgraded the disk space. It doesn't make a lot of sense to keep it secret if they have other upgrades planned. It isn't like the PowerBooks where if they announced that they were going to be upgrading them no one would buy the current models. On the contrary, if they promised that it was going to be better in a week or two, more people would buy it.
Originally posted by JBL
I bet it is just some tuning. They just upgraded the disk space. It doesn't make a lot of sense to keep it secret if they have other upgrades planned. It isn't like the PowerBooks where if they announced that they were going to be upgrading them no one would buy the current models. On the contrary, if they promised that it was going to be better in a week or two, more people would buy it.
Well it's the day after the update and nothing seems to be different. \
I did reset my bookmarks and addressbook and the performance seems faster to me. No lost info. Everything seems great.
Originally posted by confirmed
as far as i can recall, Apple usually has taken .Mac offline a couple days to a week before they announce new features. i'm not saying they're actually going to announce anything, but it's possible they got their servers upgraded in preperation for new features to be announced sometime in the near future.
It just seems silly to add feature(s) to .Mac so soon after Macworld but to not have announced those features AT Macworld. Apple loves to announce things (Tiger) SO long before they become available. Why slip this in so soon after MW with no announcement? Unless it's so mundane (new servers) that it's not worth mentioning.
-Y
But of course I wouldn't mind more features.