[silta]

You can see now that other die.hard mac users used it...

I know i can send a mail saying my wife "i love you", but i'd rather send an iCard with a cozy image for a cozy moment ;-)

I don't have those images. They were good (at least good enough for me to cheer a birthday or send a quick message to someone, without animated GIFs or short taste images). That's all.

I don't think to maintain the service was so difficult, more if you don't make it a part of a bigger pack of services like .Mac/MobileMe. Could be very easy... straightforward address "icards.apple.com" and the images and system (to's email and from's email, thats all).


Best regards,
silta

[stamford]

And less than two months before Apple kills HomePage functionality - then .Mac will be officially dead, and replaced by the faultless MobileME...

[RobTheMighty]

and has anyone tried using the stationary and sending to a client with Outlook 2007?

it's pretty poxy really Apple..

[stevenoz]

Oh yeah.... oh, yes... you are old fashioned.

You type-up all your letters, right, on scented stationery embossed with your address?

Do you sneer when someone has the nerve to write to you with email?

At least with iCards it was so easy and convenient... that the card actually went out... and was able to be personalized. People loved it when they would get a card with their picture on it via the ability of iCards to import a picture from pictures uploaded to .mac (with a paid .mac subscription).

Also well-done was iCards technique of fitting the copy to the space in various fonts. A nice feature.

No-one else does both of those things. If so, let me know.

I really miss iCards and so do the people who are not getting cards from me... at least on time.

[MacSmiley]

RobTheMighty said:

and has anyone tried using the stationary and sending to a client with Outlook 2007?

it's pretty poxy really Apple..

Please define poxy. Thank you.

stevenoz said:

At least with iCards it was so easy and convenient... that the card actually went out... and was able to be personalized. People loved it when they would get a card with their picture on it via the ability of iCards to import a picture from pictures uploaded to .mac (with a paid .mac subscription).

I really miss iCards and so do the people who are not getting cards from me... at least on time.

Good points, stevenoz.

It was so easy to send iCards whenever the mood hit you, because you could send them on the spot from any computer. I was looking forward to being able to send iCards from my cellphone... but alas!

Apple has evidently decided to ignore the feelings of those who sent iCards but, more importantly, those who received them. The number of iCards recipients was actually much larger than the number of those who sent them. It's difficult to quantify the goodwill mindshare Apple generated with those little JPEGs... and therefore much too easy to dismiss.

batchtaster said:

Did a quick straw poll among 10 die-hard Mac users about if they knew iCards was recently shut down. Typical responses: "I thought that went years ago", "god, who cares?" and "people actually use that?" (not any more I guess).

Wow, batchtaster! A sample of ten (10) whole like-minded Mac users. How hugely statistically significant!

You forget that the appeal of iCards transcended OS partisanship. They were used by Windows and by Linux users as well as "die-hard" Mac users. Apple has not shared its reason(s) for shutting down iCards. Not enough users? Too many users? Something else?

Personally, I believe the decision to shut down Apple iCards has everything to do with the branding of MobileMe more than anything other factor. It's part of the attempt to disassociate the MobileMe services from .Mac. (Sounds like politics, doesn't it?)

Apple is forgetting one thing. No matter which server the iCards website resided on, iCards generated Apple mindshare, not .Mac mindshare.

[RobTheMighty]

http://dictionary.re...com/browse/poxy

'infected with a pox' lol.. no but really vernacular has adapted this word to refer to things that are not up to standard, referring to an overall rather poor quality job

'stationary' that I can't use because Outlook 2007 won't display it correctly is pretty bad I reckon.

[MacSmiley]

RobTheMighty said:

'stationary' that I can't use because Outlook 2007 won't display it correctly is pretty bad I reckon.

Thanks for defining poxy. I'll be glad to remember that.

Meanwhile, does the above mean Apple's Mail stationery will not display properly on a recipient's PC running Outlook 2007, or that (I know, dumb question) are you saying that as a sender, you can't use Apple stationery in Outlook?

Please forgive my ignorance. :D