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if you guys are going to post anything apple related tell me something that is interesting. Like when the hell I can get my dirty hands on a 3G iPhone...]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
Whoever steals it starts taking pictures - you get the updates...notify the police.]]>Jun 9th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/ Cruelty ]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
I want to see M$ sue for logo infringement because, you know, this really harms the Windows ME marque...]]>Jun 9th 2008 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
I am glad that the iPhone is starting to have the features it needed (better sync, persistent data, etc...), but I always feel a little disappointed how so many people get so excited about features that already exist in other products.

Also, I am very uncomfortable with the iTunes, MobileMe, etc... stuff that locks me into Apple's software. Only because my production computers are 64bit Vista and iTunes has never been that friendly on Vista. I would like to see the opportunity for 3rd party developers to access my phone better. I feel that they might be able to make better tools.
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This thing is gonna be like the WebApp on the sidekick...

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What about Mozilla apps (Thunderbird/Sunbird/Lightning)?

What about Linux clients other than Mozilla ones?]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
Today is Apple day. No other software exists. Trust me, you have never seen anything like MobileMe before. Those others are not the apps you are looking for. They never existed.

Bow down to the one true software vendor... Apple.]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
Hardly. Other providers have had similar stuff for ages.

Move along. Nothing to see here.]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
This may be cursed from the start.]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 10th 2008 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
If we look at the domain's history, it looks like its last owner was Small Seed Company (makers of Me.com, turned Snappville). They started using the domain in late 2004. Before Snappville, me.com was home to holidaychannel.com (believe it or not) and a super-crapy web conferencing system (circa 1999).

Welcome home me.com, you finally (probably) don't suck.]]>Jun 9th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
The truth is, no matter how well Apple makes MobileMe, I have to use my corporate email server. The last thing I want clients doing is communicating to me through xxx@mobileme.com, or xxx@mac.com or anything of that sort.

I suppose they might integrate pop3 checking from their App. I dunno... I have my doubts.]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
This is going to fail and fail hard.]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
" ... in my Google account."

Too true.

I think Steve Jobs just admitted that he's not going to take it to the mat with Google until he absolutely has to get into a fight.

I only hope that Apple and Google can shake hands and work on a deal otherwise they'll get into a sh*t fight that can only benefit the competitors. I'd like to think Google is already too smart to tackle Apple on their own ground (hardware and desktop OS) but it seems Apple is going to hang on to denial a little longer (as far as the mobile OS goes) and that leaves them open to value-add like me.com unable to "gain market traction." As long as Apple wants $99 for a bunch of free services, I doubt they can make it fly. After all, hard core Apple techs pride themselves on not paying for .mac for just this reason -- it should be free and you've already paid for it by being an Apple customer.


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There is a huge market out there for consumers who need this type of service. The enterprise has enjoyed the benefits for years. I think the iPhone is going to be the catalyst...]]>Jun 9th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/Jun 9th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/$10/month for exchange push service. If they truly deliver what they said about MobileMe, how is that expensive?]]>Jun 9th 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
How exactly is that a bad thing?]]>Jun 9th 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
Everything MobileMe does, I was doing with FirstClass and my Blackberry and my Mac seven years ago.]]>Jun 9th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/mobileme-announced/
I do wish for something more instant though as I could go a week or so without syncing our cells. This would be a nice solution to that. it'd be nice if it has notes too (didn't see that explicitly mentioned) so I can be at the grocery store and have the latest list on me.

Looking at other comments, it seems there are options out there that may do this but I haven't really tried to go out and find them. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.]]>Jun 9th 2008 3:32PM