I’m with Merlin on this one. I need dot Mac for a couple of things (like syncing gCal with my Palm via iCal), and the iDisk is handy for moving stuff between work and home. Yes, a USB drive is handy too, but I’m far less likely to lose my iDisk. And I don’t have to hunt around looking for my iDisk, either. It seems I lose more time looking for the USB drive than I actually spend using it.

But for me one of the biggest gripes about dot Mac is the lack of spam filters. Yes, in Mail.app we can sue things like the brilliant SpamSieve, but when I’m checking email via a web browser, my inbox is chock full of spam. GMail has impressive spam filters, so we know that it can be done.

But right now, the only thing saving dot Mac on my credit card is syncing gCal with my Palm by way of iCal’s subscription abilities. As soon as someone makes it simple to sync my Palm with gCal, then I think it’s over. I can duplicate the iDisk feature easily enough via a utility.

The point of this poorly written diatribe is that Apple could be doing more to make dot Mac a valuable part of being a Mac user. A fresh web interface is nice, but it’s cosmetics without any real substance.