rumors of a new. Mac

On the eve of WWDC 2008, there are various rumors about what new Apple products Steve Job will show us at the presentation opening this conference. Today we will talk about the service .Mac.

.Mac is an Apple service that allows you to synchronize settings, notebook data and calendar data of different Macs to each other, backup important files to a network drive, provides hosting for iWeb websites, mac .com email and, respectively, the web -interface, similar to Mail.app, to work with this mail.


Some features of .Mac are really useful, but you have to pay for the service - $ 100 per year for an individual subscription (10GB on a remote server for backup and mail, 100GB of monthly traffic, up to five emails) and 180 dollars for a family (10GB of total server space, 100GB of traffic plus up to five sub-accounts with independent mail and personal 2.5GB for data).
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But if you want, you can register for the service and use it for sixty days for free.

It is rumored that Apple may significantly update .Mac at WWDC 2008 with the release of the new iPhone model. Russian developers at Codingrobots discovered that after Mac OS X 10.5.3 was updated, the code of the .Mac service disappeared in the operating system code, its name was replaced with the variable% @, which can then be assigned any name. Confirmation of this can be found in the iCal program localizable.strings file code:

% @ is the online name of Apple’s online service (was .Mac)

Also, developers from Codingrobots found the line “MOBILE_ME_SERVICE_NAME” in the iPhoneSimulator SDK. Perhaps Mobile Me is the new name for the .Mac service.

Of course, in addition to the new name, we should expect new functions. Most likely, the main ones, according to TUAW , will be support for synchronization with Microsoft Exchange servers and push-mail technology. Ars Technica suggests that the new service could be free.

Based on materials from different sources for macspoon.ru