My .mac subscription will expire soon and I won’t miss it a bit. I’ve switched to google for just about everything. Gmail for webmail [calendar included],picasa for photos, google-earth for mapping, etc. etc. I can’t see paying $99 for a service that I can get free elsewhere and with more storage. Gmail’s GUI seems much more effecient too; i.e. the way addresses are handled, message threading, filter settings, etc. I don’t really sync anything other than music, video, and photos with my iPod, however I can see the advantages to using the syncing features of dot.mac, but $99 just seems way overpriced to me. Also, I wish apple would integrate other contacts and calendar apps into the itunes/sync features. For example: sync contacts from Mozilla Thunderbird and/or Opera. Even more so, sync my Thunderbird contacts with my webmail account. That would be great. The redownloading of previous purchased music would keep me subscribing. I have a lot of music that I’ve purchased [and backed up to cds of course] from iTunes that would be way more convenient to download rather than reimporting everything disc-by-disc when moving/upgrading to a new machine.