WWDC 2008 – Apple announces MobileMe

Brian Ambrozy (primesuspect) Apple buys me.com and starts their "take over the web" war machine

June 9, 2008 2:30 PM ET in News, , , ,

The big news out of the WWDC 2008 conference is not hardware this time around – it’s a suite of web-based apps called MobileMe.

Apple purchased the domain me.com and is going to be rolling out a series of productivity apps such as an email client and calendar that will be fully mobile and will synch with whatever devices you happen to be using – including PCs and Microsoft software such as Outlook.

This is in clear competition with Google apps. Where the Apple version seems to shine is in presentation. The MobileMe apps look almost like a regular Mac OS desktop. Seems like 2008 is going to be the year of the “cloud” application.

They are billing MobileMe as “the Exchange for the rest of us”. A place where you can keep all of your “stuff” and have it accessible via web anywhere you happen to be.

4 Comments:

  1. airbornflght
    13 Jun '08, 7:56 pm

    And at $100 a year it isn't cheap... Google costs....0

    Sure it's a beautiful product but overpriced as usual.

  2. Thrax
    13 Jun '08, 8:04 pm

    All the stuff google apps can do in a pretty package for anything but free. Yawn.

  3. CB
    16 Jun '08, 1:20 pm

    Only Apple elitists will spend the money on this.

  4. Chip
    16 Jun '08, 2:03 pm

    If you don't have an iphone, I'm not sure why you'd go with this over Microsoft's free (for now at least) Live Mesh which does the same thing... albeit they don't have the cellphone app implemented yet, just

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