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News & Commentary
- What I’ve been saying for a long time
- Apple’s Me.com vs. Google’s Knol
- Diary of an internet hit whore
- 10 Microsoft flops, 10 Apple flops
- Free is good. Profit is evil
- 3G, GPS are fine, but…
- An honest look at Apple’s MobileMe
- Adobe Acrobat 9 gets embedded Flash
- Leopard 10.5.3
- Times: The RSS newspaper for your Mac
- Apple ignores Safari carpet bomb flaw (for now)
- Mac market share up to 66-percent (PCs over $1,000)
- Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate available
- Microsoft: We’ll have 40% of smart phone market by 2012
- Can Dell rebound from the brink like Apple?
- The new rules for buying a Mac
- How Microsoft could kill Google on the Web
- AOL Desktop for Mac
An honest look at Apple’s MobileMe
The award for best summary of Apple’s new MobileMe service comes from David Pogue of the New York Times, who admits that .Mac was a “motley, unfocused service.”
MobileMe, however, has a much clearer mission that solves a much clearer problem. It’s meant to keep the e-mail, calendars, address books and Web bookmarks on all of your computers — Macs, Windows PCs, iPhones and iPod Touches — synchronized in real time.
Almost. There’s that 15 minute lag on your Mac or PC. Alright, so .Mac is history, MobileMe’s hiccups are diminished. David asks, “How is MobileMe now?”
Once everything’s ready, the magic is impressive. Make a change on your Mac, watch it appear on your iPhone and your PC. Add a new friend to the address book in Outlook Express on your Windows XP machine, and watch it appear in Windows Contacts on your Vista PC. Change an appointment in iCal on the kitchen Mac, and know that it will wirelessly sprout onto your traveling spouse’s iPhone four states away. And your Web bookmarks are the same everywhere.
Mostly.
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