{"id":1669,"date":"2006-12-31T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2069"},"modified":"2010-05-08T18:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T21:47:46","slug":"re-what-already-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/31\/re-what-already-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: What, already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gracion.com\" target=\"_blank\">gracion<\/a><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; .mac is dead. It&#8217;s never worked well (or at all) outside the US, as far as I know. It&#8217;s an expensive embarrassment. Apple could close it outright, sell it to Google, or allow people to operate their own sync servers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy New Year, Rainer! Very good summing up of the year, which I agree with, except I&#8217;m not sure I want to kill .Mac. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p>It has a lot to offer as a seamless extension of Mac OS X, especially for nontechnical users. (1) Backup works, is flexible but dead-simple to use. (Yes Time Machine will change all that, sort of). (2) iDisk, ditto. (3) Photo web publishing from iPhoto is again seamless. (3) OS-integrated syncing of a variety of things (room for improvement though) (4) an interesting, already-working API for iDisk access, store-and-forward, and syncing. (5) Amazon discount <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_smile.gif\" \/> (6) Comcast, Charter, and other ISPs are starting to blacklist my small independent ISPs mail server willy nilly. .Mac email is my way around these.<\/p>\n<p>One of my very nontechnical Mac user friends had all sorts of trouble doing things until I got them on .Mac. I suspect that is true for a lot of Mac users. Admittedly, I haven&#8217;t checked out alternatives. Is there a &#8220;GoogleDisk&#8221; item I can add to the Go menu in the Finder? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m looking forward to fun at Macworld, iPhone or noPhone!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by gracion: Rainer Brockerhoff wrote: &#8211; .mac is dead. It&#8217;s never worked well (or at all) outside the US, as far as I know. It&#8217;s an expensive embarrassment. Apple could close it outright, sell it to Google, or allow people to operate their own sync servers. Happy New Year, Rainer! Very good summing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-qV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}