WWDC 2008 - Apple announces MobileMe

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited June 2008 in Science & Tech
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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.

Comments

  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2008
    And at $100 a year it isn't cheap... Google costs....0

    Sure it's a beautiful product but overpriced as usual.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2008
    All the stuff google apps can do in a pretty package for anything but free. Yawn.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited June 2008
    Only Apple elitists will spend the money on this.
  • ChipChip Dallas Member
    edited June 2008
    If you don't have an iphone, I'm not sure why you'd go with this over Microsoft's free (for now at least) Live Mesh which does the same thing... albeit they don't have the cellphone app implemented yet, just
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