Apple Is Indeed Talking About All Kinds Of Shit They Could Do. Having talked closely with their Developer Relations Engineers before, Apple talks internally ab

Apple Is Indeed Talking About All Kinds Of Shit They Could Do. Having talked closely with their Developer Relations Engineers before, Apple talks internally about all kinds of wild shit that never comes to fruition. Over two years before .me was released, I was at a conference where Deric Horn talked excitedly about their plans to turn .mac into a worldwide directory system with free-ish accounts -- your local user account on your Mac would be tied to it, and you'd be able to add .mac users to local groups, all sorts of insane functionality. Needless to say, it didn't happen. The iPhone was announced a few months later, obviously they had plenty of shit to do. I think it's fair to assume that this happens on a regular basis, cause sometimes you just have to work through your ideas before you know how tenable they are.