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Apple MobileMe vs. Microsoft Live Mesh

Chris — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:14:57 +0000

Apple MobileMe vs. Microsoft Live Mesh is a post from Chris Pirillo

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I’ve paid for a .Mac subscription from Apple. I’ve also paid for an MSN subscription from Microsoft. I paid about the same amount for each one. I can’t call it .MAC much longer. From now on, it will be called MobileMe. If you’re asking me whether it’s worth the subscription price, my answer is an unequivocal yes… especially if you have an iPhone. Even if you don’t, the synchronization will still come in handy. You still get web-based applications, and a great experience… whether you’re running on a Mac or Windows.

MobileMe is giving you access to 20GB of space ‘in the cloud’. With that, you can upload photos or documents. You can have and share a calender. You will get email if you would like to use it. You can use Microsoft Outlook to access your account if you wish! If you are using Gmail, you may wonder why you would want to use MobileMe. Again, if you have an iPhone, why wouldn’t you? It’s a no-brainer.

I’m already paying for an Exchange account so I can get my email and calenders hosted to share with Ponzi. I’m already paying for email, basically. Since I have an iPhone, this just makes sense. It’s a new service for your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. This is the simple way to keep everything up to date. You can have the same data everywhere: your desktop, your laptop and your phone. The tagline for the new MobileMe is: Push email. Push contacts. Push calendar. The idea is that when something changes in one place, it will automatically change in all of the others. In essence, it will “push” the changes through across your synched devices and machines. From Apple:

MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on an online server – or “cloud” – and pushes them down to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, the cloud updates the others. Push happens automatically, instantly, and continuously. You don’t have to wait for it or remember to do anything – such as docking your iPhone and syncing manually – to stay up to date.
Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Check your email, change your calendar, edit your contacts, and more at me.com. Accessible anywhere, me.com is an ad-free suite of web applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk — that are elegant and easy to use. You can drag and drop, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, and even switch between applications with a single click. Me.com is such a great web experience, it seems as if you’re using desktop software.

I don’t know if I am going to be able to use the email feature yet. Apple hasn’t said yet that I know of if or how they will handle personal domain emails. My email has been chris@pirillo.com for years, and I want and need to keep it that way. There are so many other features that I’m looking forward to using, though.

It’s not about ‘where’ you are, it’s about where your stuff is. You don’t want to have to stop and try to remember where you saved a particular file. You don’t want to run across a building, or even across town, to retrieve something you may have forgotten to bring to work. It’s going to be interesting to see how many Windows and Linux users subscribe to MobileMe.

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