Like you said, they already have some of the DNS in place with their iWeb Publish, right? So it should be fairly easy to set up email the same way. Why not???
astorg
· 1 year ago
@Andrew Min: Offering a basic email hosting service for custom domains is very simple, yes; it basically just involves fiddling with DNS, like you said.
Developing a fully-fledged competitor to Google Apps—because that, basically, is what Apple would have to do if it wanted to enter that segment of the market—is another proposition altogether. There would be much more than meets the eye in it, although I actually think Google's Premier package is a rip-off at $50 compared with Apple's $79 for MobileMe. Apple has the essentials of the package thrown in already and could actually move in pretty soon if they dispensed with offering the Office-equivalent suite that Google includes in Apps (and which I think is very overrated).
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Developing a fully-fledged competitor to Google Apps—because that, basically, is what Apple would have to do if it wanted to enter that segment of the market—is another proposition altogether. There would be much more than meets the eye in it, although I actually think Google's Premier package is a rip-off at $50 compared with Apple's $79 for MobileMe. Apple has the essentials of the package thrown in already and could actually move in pretty soon if they dispensed with offering the Office-equivalent suite that Google includes in Apps (and which I think is very overrated).