I have been over the fence on MobileMe. The main attraction for me is the find lost phone feature but 100 bucks seem a bit much for it. The mail/calendar/storage features are attractive but not sure how much I'd use them. Wanted to get a feel from fellow folks here on how they use MM. Attaching a poll.
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Mobile Me - What do you use it for?
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I use MM every day. I teach part time at a community college and iDisk stores all my docs and sync's to all my Mac's and iDevices. My wife and I love the email, calendar, and contact syncing. Everything works for us. We have a family plan that even my parents use. I don't get as much junk mail with MM as I did with MSN or Google so that is a plus as well!
Jeff
Jeff
if you go into the store you can get a 30 dollar discount so it will come down too 60 dollars
. But ya for 60 i think is more worth it. I use mm for mail mostly. The mail that finally doesnt have junk in it. Plus I use the contact sync and calendar sync a lot between two of my computers and iphone 
I'm not knocking anyone who's subscribed, but where's the checkbox for I don't have MobileMe because it's not worth $100 a year? it's a nice service, but not $100-a-year nice... Especially when Google is basically giving you the same thing for free with Android.
There's been a rumor or two (on this site) that MobileMe may become a free service. Frankly I think it would have to be if Apple has any dreams of competing with the free services offered by the Google cloud.
Anyway I've been using Me for keeping data in sync across all my Apples devices -- address books, calendars, bookmarks and dock items. Don't use it for email much though.
Anyway I've been using Me for keeping data in sync across all my Apples devices -- address books, calendars, bookmarks and dock items. Don't use it for email much though.
+1. I use Mail, Contacts, and Calendar with Google and Dropbox for photos and documents and it works perfectly fine for free. The only thing I can see useful in Mobile Me is Find My iPhone although to be fair there may be way more to it because I haven't used it so I don't have first-hand experience.
If you only have 1 Mac, then yeah, maybe the value is not there. But for users with multiple Macs, imo it's well worth the money for the syncing alone. I do agree that Apple need to turn mobileMe into a freemium service (free for the basics like email and small amount of storage), and put more value into the paid version (aka more storage). With Apple going into the advertising business, I do see it happening in the near future.