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Apple to Focus on Streaming, Social and Geolocation Services With MobileMe Overhaul?
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I love how in all of the talk of MobileMe improvements, getting the contact/calendar syncing and iDisk issues sorted out are nowhere to be found.
There was and will be a pricetag.
I agree, once Apple has a revenue stream, they will not let go of it. They might move to some kind of tiered model with the base having bookmark/contact syncing and Find My iPhone/iPad, the rest of the stuff being paid (email, iDisk storage).
Apple is on the verge of some really interesting integration. Look at how the iPhone, iPad and AppleTV all currently interact. This is what fascinates me about the platform. There is a huge potential for this to evolve in amazing ways over the next few years.
I haven't jumped on the Facebook/Twitter/FourSquare bandwagon but 100s of millions have. Many could care less but the times they are a changin'.
I believe that Apple "gets it" much better than any other single company out there today. I don't think they see the whole picture but they are closer than anybody. In the next few years the bonds between iOs, OS/X and the internet are only going to get tighter, the integration better.
They are poised to create something that is "truly magical" or crash and burn due to overly restrictive policies. The next few years will be interesting indeed.
I haven't jumped on the Facebook/Twitter/FourSquare bandwagon but 100s of millions have. Many could care less but the times they are a changin'.
I believe that Apple "gets it" much better than any other single company out there today. I don't think they see the whole picture but they are closer than anybody. In the next few years the bonds between iOs, OS/X and the internet are only going to get tighter, the integration better.
They are poised to create something that is "truly magical" or crash and burn due to overly restrictive policies. The next few years will be interesting indeed.
Someone already mentioned the contact syncing ...
Mobile Me needs to go free, only solution to it. It was free (iTools), then plagued with problems they decided to charge for it. Ridiculous.
If they want to tack on some paid-for options, fine, but that's the only way Apple will get iOS users to become heavy Mobile Me users.
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It might work if they stick to the basics
I think Apple has a real chance of landing a hit, as long as they keep features simple and minimal. Facebook has become much too bloated and could use a real competitor.
I think Apple has a real chance of landing a hit, as long as they keep features simple and minimal. Facebook has become much too bloated and could use a real competitor.
Why pay for email and cloud storage space? It's free and available elsewhere. Not everything needs to be Apple branded to work.
wow... thanks for the update. Facebook nearly doubled in just a year. My point is still relatively valid here. If Apple starts off with 160 million iOS users -- that too is an old number, we don't know how many iOS devices have been sold since -- that's one hell of a head start. Twitter has about 200 million.
Total surveillance
Are we heading for the Last Enemy globalization? @Hulu
A mathematical genius takes a wild ride through the boundless paranoia of a surveillance society on The Last Enemy, a five-part thriller set in England in the not too distant future. Scripted by award-winning writer Peter Berry (Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness), The Last Enemy launches the first season of MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY on PBS. Biometric ID cards, ubiquitous security cameras, and "Total Information Awareness," a program to give authorities unlimited access to personal data, have turned Britain into a virtual police state. And it turns out that Big Brother has even bigger plans for keeping track of citizens
Are we heading for the Last Enemy globalization? @HuluA mathematical genius takes a wild ride through the boundless paranoia of a surveillance society on The Last Enemy, a five-part thriller set in England in the not too distant future. Scripted by award-winning writer Peter Berry (Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness), The Last Enemy launches the first season of MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY on PBS. Biometric ID cards, ubiquitous security cameras, and "Total Information Awareness," a program to give authorities unlimited access to personal data, have turned Britain into a virtual police state. And it turns out that Big Brother has even bigger plans for keeping track of citizens
exactly
Agree 100%. I do not even want to know where I am sometimes. Hope this comes with a big red OFF switch.
Agree 100%. I do not even want to know where I am sometimes. Hope this comes with a big red OFF switch.
Long overdue. This should be a free perk (indefinitely) for all Mac/iOS platform users. Apple should spend some of those billions by building a robust social & file-sharing component that is free and easily used by everyone within the ecosystem. It will pay for itself with increased sales.
I am interested in seeing if Apple can provide a more compelling service than Facebook. As it is if it is only available to iOS/Mac users, that lops off a large amount of people.
even better ... I love dropbox - I pay in the meantime for a 100GB account since I can't do without it anymore and my whole digital life synced through dropbox on all my machines (mac, windows, iPad/iPhone access, ....).
iDisk just stinks, it is so slow that it is unusable and you need network to access it. DropBox is the best of the cloud and local storage worlds combined
Please, please buy dropbox - and no more social networking!
I've been waiting for a Facebook alternative, and who better than Apple to bring that to us.
Think about it. They have the base of users, they have me.com, and they have iAds.
They have fantastic taste in UI, and they're always on the forefront of offering new, useful features (albeit for Ping, which doesn't represent Apple's 'social' ability very well).
If you take from what the user listens to and watches, along with their apps, etc. etc. to supplement their 'likes' section, cool. All I care about is a one-stop place that I can use to send messages, show pictures and share things with others. Oh, and with a great interface.
Think about it. They have the base of users, they have me.com, and they have iAds.
They have fantastic taste in UI, and they're always on the forefront of offering new, useful features (albeit for Ping, which doesn't represent Apple's 'social' ability very well).
If you take from what the user listens to and watches, along with their apps, etc. etc. to supplement their 'likes' section, cool. All I care about is a one-stop place that I can use to send messages, show pictures and share things with others. Oh, and with a great interface.
Facebook
Facebook is cynically feeding the narcissistic appetites of a self consumed culture that is populated by teenage vulgarians, desperate housewives and bored men. - JOE SCARBOROUGH 8 Feb 11
With the notable exception of the Eqyptians. - l. FASHION 16 Feb 11
Facebook is cynically feeding the narcissistic appetites of a self consumed culture that is populated by teenage vulgarians, desperate housewives and bored men. - JOE SCARBOROUGH 8 Feb 11
With the notable exception of the Eqyptians. - l. FASHION 16 Feb 11
As a MobileMe subscriber for a few years now, I can say I am not interested in this in the least. As a matter of fact, if this is their big revamping of MobileMe, I might just opt out and get the free version. Streaming my itunes anywhere I want is cool, but updating everything I do to the cloud is not. Count me out. The description given by the article would make sense given the name is "MobileMe".
I hope Apple isn't building a $1BN facility so you can stream your itunes library from your Mac or PC. What about people with laptops? They are certainly not on 24/7.
I can see some of the benefits of this sort of service from Apple. As long as it free as it would almost have to be if they really wanted to compete with the likes of "facebook" and others. I personally could really care less and I don't care to share my location with everyone all the time.. I am sure you will be able to turn of the location services though. Either way the next several months should be interesting with all these recent rumors tied to Apple.
I agree.
When I was young I did not want everyone to know where or what I was doing, now the kids of today want to blab it all over the damn world!
LAME!