absurd logic. How abut not using any of these, including MM?
Yahoo is free with unlimited space, google is free, AOL is free.
I didn't know Yahoo and Google offer webhosting (for free even), easy data syncing between multiple computers and iPhone, an on-line file storage like idisk.
Now, google does have Picasa Web Albums that is similar to Photo Gallery and AOL does have X-Drive that is similar to iDisk. But for an all-in-one, you're not going to get it anywhere other than Apple at this time.
I'd use MM for email if they would allow me to use my already existing personal domain (as I currently have setup with google).
I must be very lucky for once. The email outage the other day was the first time I had problems with MM.