Well, I’ve yet to see anyone in this forum more “condescending and pompous” than you are. 😀
It’s even why I gave your twisted knickers a further tweak - knowing that you wouldn’t perceive it yourself. 👿
Really, Julian! I can think of many things from which to derive pride – but to derive it from using an “@mac.com” email address on a daily basis…?
And then you totally lost it when you launched into your next two paragraphs. 😁
For all of that, there’s a serious point to be made, here. Both the words “MobileMe” and “me.com” are illiterate. That’s not an opinion, it’s a hard fact of grammar - even if your own education doesn’t run to understanding it. And Alley_Cat, furthermore, was sophisticated enough to share my recognition of the fact that the name ”me.com” is also crudely egocentric.
Certainly, I, like she (or “like her” as you’d probably put it, yourself) would baulk at ever using such a vulgar domain name for my own email address. That’s most definitely true enough.
Forgive my taunts, though, about Apple’s under-provision of features in its non-Mac products. I’ll confess to winding you up shamelessly with that. Nevertheless - and no matter how many millions of people may buy them – there’s truth in that comment, too: a ‘phone (smart or otherwise) with a sealed-in battery, no expansion card slot and no physical, QWERTY keypad falls short immediately of what I want, what I need and what I look for in a mobile. It doesn't cut the mustard, for me.
Then, there's the iPad. If you like it as it is, great. I don't. Fine in principle: give it a 15" or 17" screen and it would start to have some appeal for me. But at 9.7", there's too much you can't do with it.
As for iCloud.com itself, you only have to read this very forum to see how many people are how angry about its severe shortcomings after migrating, like I (or “like me” as you’d probably put it, yourself) to it from the well-featured MobileMe, to which we hung on (wisely, it is now apparent) for as long as Apple permitted us to .
Currently, iCloud $u¢ks. It doesn’t work properly, its feature set falls far short of what it replaced (which did work) and it can’t share files, even iWork files, between Macs. How on Earth can you regard that as adequate?
Frankly, I’m amazed that you lot have been putting up with such extreme inadequacy from iCloud for so many months while the rest of us continued to enjoy MobileMe synching and our iDiscs.
And, before you start getting excited again, all of that is entirely topical to this thread. It’s about the desirability or otherwise (even the stigma) of having an email address that ends in “me.com” or “icloud.com”.
Since you did then digress into a patronising treatise upon the merits of using the “i” prefix for Apple’s products and services, I’ll treat you to this. (And I can assure you that it’s true).
I need no lessons in brand recognition and awareness.
Fifty years ago, my (now) late father quietly registered, in every country of the civilised world – and even in some that weren’t, then, but are, now – a certain single letter of the alphabet, in upper case, as a trade name for the major public company he chaired and which our family controlled. (He also secured for it that same single letter plus the number 1, and the number 1 plus that same single letter, as two vehicle registration numbers for the company.)
Some of his directors thought it was a pointless and extravagantly wasteful thing to do. As he told me at the time, that was why he was the chairman and they were only directors. His investment in those three assets duly proved as far-sighted and prodigiously lucrative as many of Steve Jobs’ visionary moves.
So yes, since you ask, I can certainly think of one company so associated with a single letter of the alphabet that it doesn’t even need to mention its name: its logo of that single letter is all it needs - on its corporate flag, on its letterhead, on its buildings and on its vehicles. I’ll leave you to work out which of the 26 possible alternatives that letter is. I’ll even be generous, and tell you that it wasn’t Morrison’s “M”. Which leaves you with 25.
I’ve lived extremely well from the proceeds of his foresight for over half a century and it has paid for all my Macs, as well.
What I still don’t understand is why Apple chose the lowercase letter “i” to make synonymous with a company whose name begins with an uppercase “A” and which doesn’t contain the letter “i” at all. (After all, my father had kindly left Steve Jobs the letter “A” to register worldwide. 🙂 Which fact now leaves you with only 24 remaining letters to ponder.)
Unless Tim Cook has plans to change the company name to Ipple, they can’t even use the “i” as a corporate logo.
I think my father would have been wise enough to register the lowercase accented letter “á” worldwide for Apple. (Be it Beatle Apple or Woz Apple). Consider how well that would have served, with a little graphic manipulation (towards an ), both as a corporate logo and as a product prefix - the “áMac”, the “áPod”, the “áPhone” the “áPad”. Steve J was a genius alright but he certainly missed out on that one.
So, again I ask, why an “i”, instead? Did Steve J have a Ballmer Moment?
