.Mac Changes: Goodbye HomePage and Groups

Apple has announced that HomePage and Groups (both features of .Mac) will no longer be offered as of July 7, 2009. The two services are not offered in the new MobileMe but were still accessible to former .Mac users.

.Mac HomePage is a web hosting service (introduced in Jan 2000 – Apple iTools) and .Mac Groups is a service that allowed .Mac users to setup a page, email and iDisk space for groups.

Email from Apple:

On July 7, 2009, the .Mac HomePage web application will be discontinued. As of this date, you will no longer be able to create new pages or edit existing pages using HomePage. Any pages you?ve already published will remain live at their current web address for as long as you like. If you need to make changes to your existing pages, please do so before July 7.

Instead of HomePage, we recommend the other sharing features of your MobileMe membership. With MobileMe Gallery, you can share photos online directly from iPhoto or the web application at www.me.com. And using iWeb on your Mac, you can create custom websites and blogs and publish them to MobileMe.

We apologize for any inconvenience this change may cause. For more information, please read this FAQ. And thank you for being a MobileMe member.

Sincerely,

The MobileMe Team