Apple Revamps .Mac: Mobile Me Announced

[MacRumors]

As rumored, Apple has announced Mobile Me, described by Apple Vice President for product marketing Phil Schiller as "Exchange for the rest of us."

Not all of us work in an enterprise... Not all of us have access to an exchange server. Now with Mobile Me, we all can have access to those features. [...] Mobile Me is Exchange for the rest of us. --Phil Schiller

Features
- Push Email, calendar, and contacts
- Synchronization between iPhone, Mac and PC (Outlook for Windows integration)
- "Desktop-like" Web Applications for Mail, Contacts, Calendar, photo gallery, and iDisk online storage.






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[stoid]

I don't like the name, but the service looks awesome!

[davidwarren]

still $99?!?

[ajd10720]

Anybody have any idead about when it will be released

[aristobrat]

Originally Posted by davidwarren

still $99?!?

If you want to pay full retail, I guess. I'm sure you can get it on eBay and Amazon for the usual $20-$30 off.

Originally Posted by ajd10720

Anybody have any idead about when it will be released

None of the live blogs mentioned it, so I guess Phil never said when?

[southerndoc]

I also like the service idea, but hate the name. It really is a tacky name.

Here's hoping that Apple will continue to allow our email to be addressed as username@mac.com instead of username@me.com or username@mobileme.com.

[ajd10720]

Originally Posted by southerndoc

I also like the service idea, but hate the name. It really is a tacky name.

Here's hoping that Apple will continue to allow our email to be addressed as username@mac.com instead of username@me.com or username@mobileme.com.

Interesting, Personaly @mac is a lot better been typing it for so long now

[twoodcc]

can't wait to start using this!

[.mark.]

big question now is when!!

[AGSHender]

Make it like Google Apps where I can use my own domain name for everything, and I'm in. Otherwise, I'm setting up a forwarder on my domain's email like would with any of Google's (free) services.

[dam0dred]

Looks fantastic. As a .Mac user this is long overdue and appreciated. Can't wait.

[aafuss1]

Hope Multi-Edit, inc and other companies (such as our mobile me) would have licensed the name to Apple.

[mogzieee]

Theres a logo

[southerndoc]

Everyone who wants to keep their mac.com email address as is should make sure your voice is heard by Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac/tm.html

[ortuno2k]

As an existing .Mac subscriber, I'm very excited to hear this.
July can't come fast enough!
Overall, I think the presentation was great but lacked a little more info besides iPhone stuff...ie: Leopard.
But overall, pretty satisfied

[Orng]

Originally Posted by mogzieee

Theres a logo

Shame about the logo, I know it's supposed to represent The Cloud, but it just likes like a hello kitty cloud or something that escaped from a tamagotchi.

Like the new services though, I'll use them even if I do have to go back to putting my own domain addy in the Reply To field

[Trooperof3]

as excited as I am.. I still was hoping for a nod towards Iweb, having some online blogging deal thing..

[Gogf]

So do we get push email if we don't spring for a new iphone or pay $99 for 10gb of email storage?

[all-in-my-head]

States on the apple MobileMe page that current .mac members can choose to stick with @mac or change to @me

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[coolfactor]

I like the idea that .Mac has been rebuilt from the ground-up. It can be harder to re-architect an existing system while it's being used by thousands of people at all hours of the day.

We will definitely get to keep our @mac.com addresses, but I'm wondering if we will have the option of using @me.com addresses, as well.

I was hoping MobileMe was going to be even more, rather than a feature-for-feature replacement. I was hoping it was going to become another developer platform.... widgets and online applications for 3rd parties, for example.

If they extended Xcode to support web development -- wow, think of the online apps that could be created. Dreaming...

[mogzieee]

.Mac page is now updated

[AGSHender]

Originally Posted by Gogf

So do we get push email if we don't spring for a new iphone or pay $99 for 10gb of email storage?

Depends on your email provider. Exchange users get push email, MobileMe users get push email, but if you're using regular POP3 or IMAP, no push email. There is an IMAP standard for push email, but so few providers use it it's pretty much non-existent.

[bretm]

Originally Posted by southerndoc

Everyone who wants to keep their mac.com email address as is should make sure your voice is heard by Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac/tm.html

What makes you think you'd lose your email address? It's a minor thing for them to keep that running. All they have to do is own mac.com. They do and they will.

Remember mindspring? They bought Earthlink, but then took on the Earthlink name. Nobody was denied keeping their mindspring.com address and they still have them today.

I doubt mac.com email will go away. That's one of the main reasons people don't leave a service, even if they're unhappy with it. They don't want to notify the planet of their new email. I don't think Apple would risk people using this opportunity to switch to a free service.

[Rend It]

For current .Mac users:

Can keep @mac.com or use @me.com

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/migrating/

(most) Everything you'd want to know.

[Orng]

Originally Posted by southerndoc

Everyone who wants to keep their mac.com email address as is should make sure your voice is heard by Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac/tm.html

done, thanks