Why No .mac Push Email

[dirtysouth]

Of all the voiced criticism of the new iPhone I think my biggest gripe is no .mac Push email however touting Yahoo Push email. I have paid for .mac services for many years and consequently my .mac email is my primary personal email account. Can someone shed some light on this?

Thanks

ds

 

[bruckwine]

.mac is dead....

 

[dirtysouth]

wow...how enlightening...:thumbsdn:

 

[Pearl_Diva]

No it's not. Even I had a .mac account on Windows, LOL!

 

[Hellenek]

IIRC SJ said Apple has realised that .mac needs some work and they're planning to revamp it. Cannot remember the link...

 

[Pearl_Diva]

Oh you mean they took it down? Or is it still up and they'll just revamp within a few months with no service interruption? I was going to renew my account.

 

[Hellenek]

No they haven't taken it down. Here's the mention at the last D5 (http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/d5-gates-jobs-transcript/)

"Walt: You obviously have a very large Internet business with iTunes and you sell a lot of stuff in the Apple Store, but, you know, you were early with this idea that when you bought a computer from Apple, you had this kind of Internet service back end, and it was called “.Mac”. And I think a lot of people feel you haven’t developed it very much.

Steve: I couldn’t agree with you more, and we’ll make up for lost time in the near future."