Comments on: Who Needs a .Mac Account?

By: peteramir

peteramir — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:28:27 +0000

Being a Mac person for over 20 years, a .mac account is just another minimal service or application by apple that makes it reasonable to purchase, but just doesn't give you a service that you can't live without or get somewhere else for less or free all together.

By: Brock

Brock — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:15:56 +0000

The answer to your question is “People who having nothing better to do with $90.” Everything .Mac offers is offered elsewhere for free.

By: Sue Ann Olsavicky

Sue Ann Olsavicky — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:57:36 +0000

Sue Ann

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:07:48 +0000

.Mac is also for those that are total Mac heads. I pay the yearly subscription fee just so my email can be @mac.com instead of @gmail.com. I don’t use any other .Mac features.

By: Kordal Sluthenger

Kordal Sluthenger — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:39:51 +0000

Its like this. People who dont use .mac are missing out on a new mac experience. Sure there are services available on the web that offer similar features to some of the features in .mac. But as loweded has said, they are not together in one place – also those other services are not built into your mac. They dont integrate with iLife, they dont work just like everything else works on your mac.

To the people who dont understand the reason why .mac is pretty much an essential part of your mac experience I give you this scenario. Windows users who hear the rumours of a mac, and say why should they spend the extra x amount of money when you get everything on windows – They just dont get it ! They will understand after they’ve used it for less than an a hour.

.Mac is there from Apple to enrich what you do in iLife, to give the simplest backup solution and a great e/webmail service with the beauty of your mac.

Dont suppose you’ve noticed that if you or a friend are buying a mac, you get .mac 30% off their website says

By: JERRY TIPPY

JERRY TIPPY — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:27:34 +0000

can .mac synchonize 2 files in quickbooks pro 2007 for mac so that the same updated data will show on both machines without using 2 files

By: Brock

Brock — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:17:08 +0000

“Tell me of one service that offers the exact same features as .Mac on the Net in ONE place and then maybe I’ll accept your arguement.”

If not having a couple extra bookmarks is worth $90 / year to you, go for it.

By: Loweded Wookie

Loweded Wookie — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:58:06 +0000

To those who say that these features are available elsewhere on the web I say this to you:

“They are found ELSEWHERE on the net.”

They aren’t all in one place. Sure you’ve got GMail or Yahoo Mail but these don’t give you disk space.

You’ve got Flicker AND YouTube but not both in the same place.

But .Mac has backup software, access to software deals for other companies, free content such as sounds and jingles for GarageBand, and much more.

Tell me of one service that offers the exact same features as .Mac on the Net in ONE place and then maybe I’ll accept your arguement.

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:04:27 +0000

Well.. yes and no… The web, blog and podcast stuff with iWeb are pretty easy to use for the beginner.

By: Brock

Brock — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:57:35 +0000

The answer to your question is “People who having nothing better to do with $90.” Everything .Mac offers is offered elsewhere for free.