December 2006
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The Many Misconceptions of Dot Mac
The press on Apple’s Dot Mac service has been mediocre at a best lately, and one doesn’t have to look very far to find commentary berating it for any number of reasons such as the price tag, the lack of features compared to many of the other offerings out there, or just the performance of it in general.
Even the recent improvements to the webmail and address book interface were met with mixed reviews, with the general feeling being that it was about time Apple caught up with the other technology out there.
However, I think that many people are really missing the point of what .Mac is and what it’s intended to be. Each of the .Mac services, taken separately, don’t necessarily have much to recommend them; there are certainly better e-mail services out there, better online storage services, better web hosting services, and so forth. However, few of these “solutions” integrate all of those services together in the way that .Mac does.