primesuspect
9 Jun 2008, 7:30pm
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The big news out of the WWDC 2008 conference is not hardware this time around - it's a suite of web-based apps called MobileMe.
Apple purchased the domain me.com and is going to be rolling out a series of productivity apps such as an email client and calendar that will be fully mobile and will synch with whatever devices you happen to be using - including PCs and Microsoft software such as Outlook.
This is in clear competition with Google apps. Where the Apple version seems to shine is in presentation. The MobileMe apps look almost like a regular Mac OS desktop. Seems like 2008 is going to be the year of the "cloud" application.
They are billing MobileMe as "the Exchange for the rest of us". A place where you can keep all of your "stuff" and have it accessible via web anywhere you happen to be.
The big news out of the WWDC 2008 conference is not hardware this time around - it's a suite of web-based apps called MobileMe.
Apple purchased the domain me.com and is going to be rolling out a series of productivity apps such as an email client and calendar that will be fully mobile and will synch with whatever devices you happen to be using - including PCs and Microsoft software such as Outlook.
This is in clear competition with Google apps. Where the Apple version seems to shine is in presentation. The MobileMe apps look almost like a regular Mac OS desktop. Seems like 2008 is going to be the year of the "cloud" application.
They are billing MobileMe as "the Exchange for the rest of us". A place where you can keep all of your "stuff" and have it accessible via web anywhere you happen to be.