MobileMe vs Apple Push Notifications??

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Push_Notification_Service

 

MobileMe is an email service. Apple Notification is for Apps.

 

No. You are really confused. Here's the deal.

1) Apple's Push Notification Service
A free service iPhone users get. Any app that wants to can push info from its servers to a phone whenver it wants.

EXAMPLE: Someone sends you an AOL IM and the AOL servers send it to Apple which then puts a message on your phone to check your AOL AIM app, even though the app wasn't running.


2) Push E-Mail
Some e-mail features push e-mail, which means you'll get it when it's sent, not when the iPhond decides to check for new mail.

Yahoo mail features this. G-Mail now has it IF you set it up using theie 'Exchange' instructions. Most corprate e-mail has push by using Exchange too. MobileMe also has push e-mail, which brings us to:


3) MobileMe
A $99-per-year service from Apple that gives you a bunch of stuff including:

* A xxxx@me.com e-mail address
* Hard drive space on a virtual 'iDisk' that can be accessed from iPhones and computers.
* Live over-the-air syncing of contacts and calendars between computers and iPhones. (No USB hookup needed for syncing contacts.)
* Online photo galleries with direct uploading and downloading from iPhoto plus group photo sharing features.
* Online iWork document sharing from Pages.
* Back-to-my-Mac which lets you easily screen share over the internet
* Find-my-iPhone online locator & remote phone locking

...and a bunch of other stuff. That's just the basics. You buy MobileMe if you want all that other stuff, not just for the e-mail. That'd be expensive e-mail.