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Steve Jobs: MobileMe to 'Get A Lot Better' Next Year
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If Apple don't sort their cloud strategy soon...
...then Chrome is going to eat them for breakfast.
Companies like LG are capable (when they try) of producing hardware that is every bit as sexy as Apple's, but at a significantly reduced cost.
Chrome renders much of OS X obsolete overnight, and the slew of html5/canvas web apps that will be thrust upon teh dynamic interwebs will change everything - again.
But it's all good clean competition!
...then Chrome is going to eat them for breakfast.
Companies like LG are capable (when they try) of producing hardware that is every bit as sexy as Apple's, but at a significantly reduced cost.
Chrome renders much of OS X obsolete overnight, and the slew of html5/canvas web apps that will be thrust upon teh dynamic interwebs will change everything - again.
But it's all good clean competition!
mobileme is far from dead. and dropbox.. I've never used so can't speak on it. However, you're saying a full product is dead based of your dislike of a single aspect of it. And you compare a full product to another that only offers one part of it?
That's like me saying iphone is dead because of googlevoice.
"A little better all the time (It can't get no worse)" - The Beatles
Ditto. my sub is up in June and I may not re-up if they don't make some significant changes. Gmail/dropbox suits my needs better, even when it comes to my iOS devices.
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Excellent. My subscription is up in June 2011, and I hope to renew it if they add new features!
Ditto. my sub is up in June and I may not re-up if they don't make some significant changes. Gmail/dropbox suits my needs better, even when it comes to my iOS devices.
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LOL Exactly!
DB 'might' be better in regards to filesharing, but I have 4 computers and an iPhone to keep in sync...addresses and calendars. How is DB 'killing' MM in that arena?!?! Not happening.
this is the most non-story stevemail in recent memory.
seems more like page 2 fodder, IMHO.
as others have pointed out, what the heck else would he say (other than not reply)? so, i suppose the fact that he bothered to reply means that MobileMe is not dead in
's eyes. but did anyone really think it was? they may make marginal, maintenancy-type improvements over the next year, or they may do something big. either way, Steve will say it got "a lot better". so we learned nothing.
seems more like page 2 fodder, IMHO.
as others have pointed out, what the heck else would he say (other than not reply)? so, i suppose the fact that he bothered to reply means that MobileMe is not dead in
's eyes. but did anyone really think it was? they may make marginal, maintenancy-type improvements over the next year, or they may do something big. either way, Steve will say it got "a lot better". so we learned nothing.
I host my website on mobile me with my own domain name.
It would be nice if you got a domain name with mobile me, instead of having to purchase that elsewhere.
It would be nice if you got a domain name with mobile me, instead of having to purchase that elsewhere.
Makes him different from the other CEOs. The Apple way is always in interest of the customer.
The iDisk feature is at the bottom of the "feature" list, in my opinion. Syncing has improved greatly. For someone with multiple devices (one or more of the following: Mac, ipod touch, ipad, iphone) it more than pays for itself.
It was a classy move opening "Find My iPhone" to everyone.
I totally agree. The only thing holding me back is my ancient internet. I cannot see myself paying that amount when I would only be able to use one of its features without hassle of a mega slow internet connection and a tiny download limit lol. Currently using gmail but would love to switch
Hopefully Apple will update the hell out of it and drop the price to about $30. Otherwise I'm not interested.
iCal is SURE to be updated and significantly improved when they update MobileMe. Just kidding! We all know that iCal has been condemned to have no significant improvements made to it since like 2003. And even in 2003 it wasn't even capable of doing many simple tasks that other calendar programs did even in the 1990s.
I liked MobileMe during the 2-month trial when i tried it out last year... But and there's a huge but.. The pricetag for an email service like that is absolutely ridiculous. I believe they were going to charge me 79 Euro/Year for it which was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.. And also who can tell me who came up with the "MobileMe" name? It just sounds dumb and xxx@mobileme.com just looks like a cheap email adress.. I loved it when you could get the xxx@mac.com adresses as they were so much more easier to tell people in my opinion.
...or even an old name.
call me old-fashioned, but i liked the name .mac a lot better. yeah, yeah, i know, what does that have to do with iPhone syncing, etc. etc. It still sounds better to me. plus i'd rather have a mac.com email address than a me.com address, personally.
so glad they kept Apple TV's name. iTV... just no. there's enough iThings. "Apple TV" just sounds classier.
in an effort to increase profit margins, Steve Jobs will now only reply to emails from @me.com .... So if you want to email him you'll have to subscribe to MobileMe.
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Exactly. The email expressed dissatisfaction based on a number of glitches and asked if it would get better. Jobs responded that it will, in 2011. Or, based on the question the emailer asked, the glitches will be fixed in 2011 to make MobileMe a much more smoother and reliable service. This is all that can be inferred from the initial question and Jobs's answer. And, no, Jobs would not have said "no, we don't plan for improvements of said problems".
This is assuming he is the one whole actually writes these responses. We have zero proof that he actually does this. Good marketing though.
Totally agree, and I think that this perfectly illustrates the entire direction that apple has been headed in the past few years. They used to have a very elegant system, but then they wanted to exapnd the market beyond mac users, so they changed their system to include more people, and in the process changed to a much less elegant system.
Yes, I remember that too. He promised that two years ago and unfortunately it hasn't gotten any better. Synchronization is problematic and can cause duplicates. The rest works very well actually. I only wish MobileMe had a much better Spam filter and better calendar sync.
Actually, at one point they made it worse.
They changed it so when you edit an event or add an event, it doesn't put you in full edit mode, you have to hit another key set to get it to believe you really want to edit the appointment and not just the title. Why the hell would I edit an event if I didn't want to actually change things?!
Yup, iCal definitely got much worse with that "update." In fact, that was exactly what caused me to stop using iCal altogether.
Since you are apparently unable to read for context, let me expand my answer.
Steve essentially said nothing of value. Steve basically sent a "read receipt."