Yesurbius
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I am curious how many people are a little concerned, or annoyed at how the announcement of the new iLife '06 products focuses quite a bit on .mac publishing, "locking" users into this service. It reminds me of another computer company's tactics.
Right now I pay over the $99/year subscription fees for hosting my own digital life on a provider other than .mac ... I get 10GB of storage, 500GB transfer/mo, SQL, PHP, the works.. It provides me with everything *I* need. If .mac offerred me what I wanted, I would subscribe to their service - probably be willing to pay a bit more as well. But the fact remains that it doesn't.
Here is my basic take on this. The web is full of standards. There is nothing substantially special about .mac - nothing .mac can do that you can't do on another ISP. So why make publishing within the app available only to .mac subscribers?
To me, if the apps had a preferences option where you specify publishing locations (ftp server, webdav, local directory, .mac) and the iLife app used that location seamlessly in the same way that they are now using .mac - it would appeal to everyone; and .mac could market itself based on its own merits. As it stands now, .mac is mostly marketing itself because of the fact the apps dependent on it.
Thoughts?
Right now I pay over the $99/year subscription fees for hosting my own digital life on a provider other than .mac ... I get 10GB of storage, 500GB transfer/mo, SQL, PHP, the works.. It provides me with everything *I* need. If .mac offerred me what I wanted, I would subscribe to their service - probably be willing to pay a bit more as well. But the fact remains that it doesn't.
Here is my basic take on this. The web is full of standards. There is nothing substantially special about .mac - nothing .mac can do that you can't do on another ISP. So why make publishing within the app available only to .mac subscribers?
To me, if the apps had a preferences option where you specify publishing locations (ftp server, webdav, local directory, .mac) and the iLife app used that location seamlessly in the same way that they are now using .mac - it would appeal to everyone; and .mac could market itself based on its own merits. As it stands now, .mac is mostly marketing itself because of the fact the apps dependent on it.
Thoughts?