MobileMe Service
Shawn Blanc has a blog post up on the potential value of MobileMe. Its a bit long unless you are interested in the topic, but insightful. (MobileMe of course, is Apple’s ill-titled mobile sync service.) MobileMe is something I’ve been using for years - which is why I have a .mac address - but I still struggle to define in terms of value. It is something I haven’t found to be particularly useful aside from syncing email and calendars. Truthfully, Dropbox does a much better job of syncing files between machines - so there’s no way I’m going back to the MobileMe iDisk service at this point.
Really - if you don’t have a Dropbox account, you need to get one. Do it now. This means you.
So, I am in essence maintaining the service due to the number of devices I have, email sync, and a handy calendar publishing feature. All things that I could do in other ways if I had time to set it up. I guess I’m paying for convenience, but its a steep price at this point. And without some additional value coming from somewhere - its only a matter of time until I abandon it…
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