.Mac make over soon?

Whither .Mac?

By Charles Jade | Published: June 09, 2007 - 12:19PM CT

The .Mac service turns five in July and has easily become the most stunted and neglected product that Apple offers. For $99 a year ($69 if you look around), you get an anemic and tortuously slow gigabyte of storage space for your iDisk (minus what is devoted to your .Mac e-mail account) plus a few services of wildly disparate quality.  By far the best is the seamless syncing of mail, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks across multiple Macs, while easily the worst is .Mac Backup, a flagship product of the Punishment Development Group at Apple. So long-suffering .Mac users like myself should have felt an inexpressible relief at the D: All Things Digital conference when Steve Jobs was shamed in response to a question over the sorry state of .Mac.

"I couldn't agree with you more and we will make up for lost time in the very near future."

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