What's wrong with .Mac

James R. Stoup at Apple Matters has posted a great article that explores just what's wrong with Apple's .Mac suite, and how he'd fix it. Among the problems Mr. Stoup notes: the measly 256MB of iDisk storage space, iCards, hompage and bookmarks.

I can see his point. 256MB of online storage space does seem a little silly, as I have a keychain flash ram device with twice that, and it didn't cost me $100. I also agree that ecards are horrible, even if they do bear the Apple brand. I do see the usefulness of homepage and bookmarks, though. Not everyone who wants to produce a webpage or online photo gallery is savy enough to learn html (or could be bothered to do so), and homepage's integration with iPhoto makes it very easy indeed to get a simple gallery up and running.  I've also used bookmarks on occasion.

All in all, however, I agree.  .Mac needs a major upgrade, and Mr. Stoup's suggestions for improvements are great.  It's a good read.