You can get the same privileges just by getting a hosted service somewhere else.

There's also the open source alternative called notmac. http://www.notmacchallenge.com/

You do loose out on the cool email address (@mac.com) and back to my mac integration.

Other than that, there's nothing much to look forward to. Surely doesn't worth the 400 bucks for me.

And you get to keep the email address, even if you're not paying for it. It won't work though.

Someone claimed that you can keep it working if you were to forward it somewhere, but I'm not sure whether that's still working.

Anyone can verify this?