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New .Mac service coming soon?

Cyril Roger

Cyril Roger

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Mac accountThe big rumor today is that Apple will make significant changes to their .Mac online service, starting with the name. For those of you that don’t know what it is, .Mac is an online account where you can set up your own website, photo albums, Apple Mail account and even store files. It works seamlessly with iLife and all other Apple applications, but the service those come at a price, starting from $99.95 for a unique yearly membership.

TUAW yesterday reported on two links hinting that .Mac will go through a name change, and maybe even bigger modifications. On one side there’s Todd Ditchendorf, an ex-engineer at Apple who in his twitter suggests something big is coming for .Mac. Then there’s a more substantial blog post from Dmitry Chetsnykh, CEO of Coding Robots, who, after installing the latest 10.5.3 update of Leopard, found hints of renaming of .Mac in the Localizable.strings of iCal, Apple Mail and Safari. In all of these .Mac was replaced by %@.

So will a new .Mac service be one of the main attractions of this year’s upcoming WWDC? It’s been a while since we’ve heard of anything new for .Mac, at least since last August, when new web galleries and 10 GB of storage for all were announced by Steve Jobs. Maybe as TUAW hint it will have to do with extended interaction with the upcoming iPhone 2.0.

Update (02/05/08): Many rumors believe that the new service will use the Me.com domain, which seems to have been recently acquired by Apple.

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