Comments on: If .Mac is down, could .Me be far behind?

By: Some Guy, Cupertino, California

Some Guy, Cupertino, California — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:58:30 +0000

.mac was down due to a massive denial of service attack. It's a testament to the skills of Apple's IT people that they were able to get a lid on it in such a short time.

By: Craig, Dallas TX

Craig, Dallas TX — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:59:20 +0000

I hope they don't make the domain change mandatory… "me.com" sounds nice, but since my email address is my full name, having "@me.com" at the end of it would be a bit pretentious. Don't you think?

I haven't had to change my email address for almost 8 years. And I've only scratched the surface of iLife integration. But if they would make a "Back to my Mac" client for Windows… Then I wouldn't have to take my laptop everywhere.

By: Levi, Vancouver BC

Levi, Vancouver BC — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:01:24 +0000

well, I'll wait until WWDC, but if nothing changes with .mac I'm switching to Google Apps – which costs $50/year at the most.

By: Rick, Trenton NJ

Rick, Trenton NJ — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:07:57 +0000

How about some iWork love on iPhone for WWDC.

That will play nice with .Me

http://www.ismashphone.com/2008/06/iphone-20-to-ha.html

By: jon, stanford, ca

jon, stanford, ca — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:06:19 +0000

i really hate paying $99 a year for .Mac, especially since i can get most of the services for free and dont use the email, but the automatic online backup is worth the price

By: Doug, Mtn. View, CA

Doug, Mtn. View, CA — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:53:03 +0000

Right, cynik. Just what our country needs: more "free" stuff. Since you don't live here, you clearly don't understand a thing about us. I'm already paying about $5/month per phone to pay for "free internet access" to all our school kiddies. This tax will undoubtedly never go away, either. Your idea of "free broadband" will have to be paid by someone. I propose a $100/household tax on all Swiss residents for this purpose. Are you up to the task?

By: Gumby, Antioch CA

Gumby, Antioch CA — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:30:46 +0000

iDelays

iExpensive

iShortages

iBottlenecks

iHelpMe!

By: cynik, switzerland

cynik, switzerland — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:53:25 +0000

For sure Apple have got to get their cloud services down. They have some pretty useful mobile platforms just now, they could make great use of the cloud.

They are in a good position to do this. Their development platform was used to make the web itself, their system does networking nicely. But there is still the bottleneck of the available bandwidth, and its cost.

If Obama was for real he'd be offering coast to coast free public broadband.

By: iJah420 Traverse City MI

iJah420 Traverse City MI — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:36:21 +0000

Me thinks this will be VERY COOL!