Jon at Administer IT makes a a point that I've been meaning to make about .Mac mail for quite a while now. The .Mac webmail interface is very old school, clunky and pretty slow. For a while, I tried avoiding the issue by forwarding all of my mail to a GMail account, but that just made mail management more difficult. So when I'm away from my laptop, I suffer through it, wondering why I'm paying $99 a year for the service.
To be fair, I use iDisk quite a bit. I also like the flexibility of having web and POP3 access to my email (which is something that most free web mail providers don't give). Having my email address independent of my ISP made my move from Cox to Verizon almost seamless.
I do get a lot of value from having my .Mac account. I just get the impression that Apple is neglecting the applications that make .Mac worth it. Maybe they'll get around to it after Leopard is done. Or maybe they'll improve it after they make it free like the rumors are saying.
Via Digg
Dear Steve Jobs: .Mac Mail is Getting Old
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