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Apple Buys Me.com? .Mac's New Name?

Mobile Me does sound kinda lame. :rolleyes: Now, they should've just called it My Mobile. then if they wanted to dis-associate all the i-[name] and .mac (since Apple is also moving into consumer electronics, they could rename their apps to reflect what they really do and it would even be more personal feeling.

My-Work
My-Life
My-DVD
My-Movie
My-Photo
My-Phone
My-Addresses
My-Cal
My-tunes

then email addresses could be <nam e>@mymail.com

Lately this society is "what about me", so why not?

I could just see the commercials now.

guy 1: "Hey, you got my-phone!"
guy 2: "Huh, I do?"
guy 1: "yes, it got my-tunes on it!"
guy 2: "oh really, let me listen"
guy 2: "hummm bumm bumm humm huum"
guy 2: "wow, quite a selection, I wish my phone could do that. What else can this do."
guy 1: "well, let me show you" <demonstrating>
guy 2: "wow, now wonder it's a my-phone, its centered all around my life"



Or in the case of the Mac vs. PC commercials.
"My! its about what I do and it just works."

- or -

How 'bout one poking at how Vista is till having issues and PC waiting on Windows 7.

Mac: "Hey PC, still looking down these days"
PC: "Yeah, Vista just will not cooperate with the way I need to run my life or business"
Mac: "Wow, its been a number of years, I thought you would have worked it out by now?"
PC: "No, nothing is working. I am hoping 7 is really a lucky number."
Mac: "hmm, relying on lucky numbers now?"
PC: "well...."
<Mac guy rips out his new device>"
PC: "What's that?"
Mac: "It's called My-<...> because it is easily centered around the way I work and play"
PC: "Think that thing can help me?"
Mac: "Yes - I can integrate with you, I can work with all your documents, and best of all I can easily go on the road"
PC: "sign, yeah I am still stuck here at my desk trying to fit all the pc's together"
 
shervieux said:
Cool, to show once and for all that mac's can be productive at the Enterprise level
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Didn't Apple drop the "macintosh" entirely, across the board, making it "Mac" instead?

With that in mind, it would become "Mac Enterprise". Doesn't really have that ring to it, does it?

Mi-cro-soft
Ma-cin-tosh

(syllabels).
 
Mr Maui said:
I can see the commercials with John and Justin now ...

This would make the Apple Store experience parallel being in a brothel. :eek:
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I was thinking a commercial with Mac and PC on a first class airline flight. PC has a rude attendant that treats him bad, etc. Mac has a pretty seductive one that politely offers "coffee, tea, ME?".
 
aLoC said:
A few hundred thousand maybe? Enough to pay 2 developers to work on OS X for a year, which would have been a lot more productive use of it.
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That's not a very good analysis of the opportunity cost, since Apple has no shortage of funds to pay OS X developers. The size of the OS X development team is not determined by cost but rather by an understanding of the team sizes that are appropriate for software development projects. Blindly increasing the size of the development team does not lead to better software or a shorter development cycle; it leads to Windows Vista.
 
Another thing I do not like about "ME", umm anyone remember Windows ME (as in Windows Millenium) and how much of a flop that was. :p

Oh wait, I can see it now...

PC: "Hey I was ME first"
Mac "yeah, but we re-invented what ME was supposed to be about, besides its 10 years later"
PC: "Oh, so its not about ME"
Mac: "hmm, no it's about ME now"
 
dernhelm said:
I was thinking a commercial with Mac and PC on a first class airline flight. PC has a rude attendant that treats him bad, etc. Mac has a pretty seductive one that politely offers "coffee, tea, ME?".
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Ouch, you just dove over the line dude...

:( I can see where people's minds are headed on this one..... Can we try to stay clean folks.....:rolleyes:
 
dmula said:
Macintosh Exchange Server 2008
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MESs 2008. ;):D


Who cares what it is called?, :apple: already dropped some of the established and best sounding names in their product titles such as PowerMac, PowerBook, etc...renaming @mac to @me is another nail in the coffin that :apple: is burying its self slowly.

Power... names rolls off the tongue while the Mac...names has an inherent pause to it.

Then there is the iName scheme which is shared with hardware and software, no clear rules for its usage.

:apple: just seems to be a mess in the hardware department and to some extent its GUI Theme in Mac OS X.

Seems they made the guidelines, however don't feel like following it. Must be frustrating for developers. :rolleyes:
 
Tosser said:
Didn't Apple drop the "macintosh" entirely, across the board, making it "Mac" instead?

With that in mind, it would become "Mac Enterprise". Doesn't really have that ring to it, does it?

Mi-cro-soft
Ma-cin-tosh

(syllabels).
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Then again Steve Jobs also claimed they would never enter the PDA market and here we have the iPhone. :rolleyes:

:apple: drops products and titles then picks it up again later, it's all marketing. ;):D
 
!¡ V ¡! said:
Then again Steve Jobs also claimed they would never enter the PDA market and here we have the iPhone. :rolleyes:

:apple: drops products and titles then picks it up again later, it's all marketing. ;):D
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Hmm. Lately I think Apple is about re-inventing and revolutionizing products for a new generation; and looking more into the future of the industry and people's needs. After all (and I know I am going to get blasted for this); Until Apple started back up with it's cool products a few years ago, the whole computing industry was at a stalemate. While some new products were coming out, Windows (and products that run on them) had the same feel, functionality, and fustrations since 1995. Cell Phones were just portable phones - nothing more. PDA's were growing kinda stale for people opting for a laptop instead as the whole pocket computer thing with the Windows CE, never really took off much (people had trouble with their docs being to large for the pocket PC).

Before Apple started with revolutionizing the way we think and work, we had to carry around a cell phone, a PDA (because the phone could not handle it all), a laptop (because both the phone and PDA still lacked what we need on the road).

Apple's revolutionizing is giving a new meaning to mobile computing and having all your information on the go. After all, the large corporation in its big-box building is going away. As more an more outsourcing and contracting out happens; you see less big-box buildings for smaller offices, people on the road, or even like me - working from home.

And working from home does have its benefits (not having to pay for Ga$ to commute). plus with the "virtual office", we have been able to tap into the best employees and not having to worry about if they can move or how long their commute is. You just send the equipment to where they are. I know this does not work for every industry, but any office worker this could work for.
 
I think that me.com has something to do with syncing Adress book and various other devices. All your personal data in Address book is saved under the name 'Me'.

I don't know how they would use it, as some kind of community site/directory or maybe a software community site that you can install on your iphone/computer/ipod and the me.com is used as a user name...

There are lots of community sites but not many/any software community sites... could be a litle niche. :apple:
 
aLoC said:
A few hundred thousand maybe? Enough to pay 2 developers to work on OS X for a year, which would have been a lot more productive use of it.
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Thanks :D

Bucks or quid?

Would have thought it would have been worth a lot more than that. A contact I know enquired about a 4 letter/2 word dot com domain name (just the domain name, not the actual company/business) a few weeks ago and the company which owned it said it was generating about GBP 300k a year and that to replace that kind of income they would need to put at least GBP 6m in the bank (6m x 5% interest = 300,000) and so would only listen to offers in excess of GBP 6m.... which seems fair enough to me.
 
this discussion is tl;dr, but "Me" or "Mobile Me" immediately reminds me of "Windows ME"
 
shervieux said:
Another thing I do not like about "ME", umm anyone remember Windows ME (as in Windows Millenium) and how much of a flop that was.
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Please check what came before the ME in that statement ... err ... Windows ...

'Nuff said.

Note: I love this thread ... it's all about me.
 
Apple always surprises me and is unpredictable so I have no idea and offering no guesses on the .Me domain name purchase. If used I have very little doubt, based on past performance, that it will be a thrilling addition :D
 
Found this :eek::

Dotme_box.png
 
blairbeckwith said:
A very poor fake. Look at the top left side edge.
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Actually, that's not the giveaway (looks like a box flap, and looks just like the .Mac box images I have), but rather, the fact that all of the text is perfectly horizontal instead of following the angle of the box. You're right though, very poor fake.

jW
 
This sounds the most logical idea...

GuillaumeB said:
By the way there is another possibility that has not been explored with me.com:

Blackberry providers let you create Blackberry exchange accounts where you can set up your existing email to receive it as push on your device.

My gf set up her gmail account and linked it to some @bouygues-blackberry.com email address and she now receives her gmail messages with push (bouygues is the operator)

i would not be surprised to learn that the Exchange technology had been set up on the me.com servers to let use generate email addresses and link our own personal email over there.
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For everybody worried changing their .mac addresses and how stupid me.com sounds...

Don't you think GuillaumeB hit the nail on the head with this comment, I didn't see any replies to his idea? :confused:
 
blairbeckwith said:
A very poor fake. Look at the top left side edge.
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It's the box flap.


Mal said:
Actually, that's not the giveaway (looks like a box flap, and looks just like the .Mac box images I have), but rather, the fact that all of the text is perfectly horizontal instead of following the angle of the box. You're right though, very poor fake.

jW
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Haha I just made it for a bit of fun! I think it's going to be called .me not just me on its own. Obviously mobile me is for the iPhone/ iPod touch.
 
Decrepit said:
Maybe this is their way of weaning people away from the name Mac.

Start on the mobile side. iPhone, iPod...

Change the notebooks to AirBook, and AirBook Pro eventually killing the machine in the middle.

They could go with iDesk Mini for the Mini, iDesk for the iMac and iDesk Pro for the Mac Pro.

Just some wild speculation on my part, but they killed the Apple II line pretty harshly. They could kill the Mac name overnight as well.
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maybe they will rename, but i hope not to iDesk. that just sounds horrid and its like a cheap rip of the iAnything. so many things after iPod have 'i' infront of them. also if you call it iDesk then it restricts it only to a desk, and some iMacs i have used are on a flat surface, but not a desk. for example in a research lab ontop of a trolley, then in the university research centres etc
 
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