Yeh the same with the UK, a free iphone here will be £45 a month, thats $90 a month to you guys but that's totally out of proportion. for example

minium wage UK £5.52 - US 5.85
price of an average CD UK £10.99 - US £9.99

I can't be bothered to find other examples, but it's the same in europe as well

i was just emailed this - so glad i can still use my @mac.com email address... don't like the sound of @me.com - The money is worth it if i can still use Back to my Mac - i literally use it all the time

Dear .Mac member:

Today Apple announced a new Internet service called MobileMe - taking the best of .Mac and adding a host of new features. As a current .Mac member, your account will be automatically upgraded to MobileMe in July. For a closer look, watch the MobileMe Guided Tour and read below for an overview of your new service.

Mac integration you know and love. With MobileMe, you'll continue to enjoy features that take advantage of seamless integration with Mac OS X and iLife - Back to My Mac; access to your iDisk in the Finder; Mac-to-Mac syncing of Dock items, preferences, and more; iWeb site publishing; and photo and movie sharing directly from iPhoto '08 and iMovie '08.

New web applications for when you're away from your Mac. MobileMe features a suite of web applications at www.me.com that have the familiar look and feel of the applications on your Mac. Because these web applications stay in sync with your Mac and other devices, you'll have the same information wherever you go. Here's what you'll find at me.com:

Mail, the anchor of the new suite, is even better with a refined interface.

Contacts has a new three-pane interface, contact groups, maps integration, search, and photo support.

Calendar is a brand-new web application that feels just like iCal, featuring multiple calendars, click-and-drag event creation, and more.


Gallery lets you manage your collection of shared photos and movies from anywhere. You can now upload photos, rearrange their order, and set sharing preferences, all from a browser.

iDisk now has the familiar look of the Mac OS X Finder. It features drag-and-drop filing and an easy new way to share large documents, by sending an email with a link for downloading the file.

Account lets you manage settings such as storage allocation.

To use the new web applications, make sure you have one of these browsers: Safari 3, Internet Explorer 7, or Firefox 2 or later.

Push email. Push contacts. Push calendar. In addition to Mac-to-Mac syncing, MobileMe now keeps your iPhone, your iPod touch, and even a PC in sync. MobileMe pushes new contacts, calendar items, and bookmarks to your Mac or PC, and over the air to your iPhone or iPod touch. For example, if you add a calendar event on the web, the change will automatically be pushed to your Mac and iPhone. New email will be pushed to your iPhone in seconds, eliminating the need to check for messages manually.

As a MobileMe subscriber, you can continue to use your mac.com address for email. You will also be issued a me.com address with the same user name that you can use if you prefer. The choice is yours.

Double the online storage. To give you plenty of space for your email, photos, and other files, MobileMe doubles your storage from 10GB to 20GB for an individual subscription.

We'll be sure to update you when the new service goes live. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the upcoming transition from .Mac to MobileMe, please visit the MobileMe FAQ.

Sincerely,

The MobileMe Team

difference between apple and sony, nokia etc. is they release a 10 new products every 10 seconds flooding the market with different phones - apple has released one phone in one year (obv not including sizes). In Britain it isn't uncommon for phone shops to buy your old phone off you for a discount on a new phone... i don't think it's out of the question that apple would do a buy back scheme. After all... they don't want 1000's of cheap second hand iphone's out there stopping people buying a brand new product.

There are still so many thing's to add to the iPhone, why are apple spending so long adding these small updates. Only if they could add silly things that have been missed out - like when receiving MP3's and not being able to save them to the iPhone iPod, or save a Word Doc/ PDF from a email so each time you want to look/ listen to something you have been sent you don't have to sift through email's and emails. And why can iphone sync to airtune's? Yeah triangulation is great, but why can't you have it on constantly so when your driving it continually updates. These are such minor things and there are so many more that i assumed would add and fix. MacBook Air looks great, but i wish they could concentrate on products that people have already purchased.

yeah, but i'm just as likely to get into quite a wreck reaching into my glove box for a CD. I wish they would bring out an all in one iphone-in-car-thing. You know, so you can listen through car speakers and then when someone calls, it also comes through the speakers, and an additional mic somewhere-maybe, or does this exist. any one listening- oh well.