Apple changed .Mac brand to Mobile Me
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Rumors came true and Apple restored the .Mac service a few weeks ago. However, Apple’s primarly land of interest which .Mac service refreshed and harmonized with iPhone. They introduced to Mobile Me as “Exchange for everybody”, it provides data equalization between iPhone (iPhone Touch), Mac and Windows systems. Mail, Address Book and iCal on Mac systems. Microsoft Outlook on Windows systems. You can access persons, calendars, emails, photo albums, iDisk and Web 2.0 applications from Me.com’s service pages.
Mobile Me will be opened 11 July 2008 with iPhone 2.0 update, they’ll give totally 20GB (including iDisk) space their users and cost is that $100. System requirements determined the Mac OS X 10.4.11. It supports Safari 3, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 or higher web browsers. Currently .Mac users will be promoted to Mobile Me service without any charge. New service will allows you can use your @mac.com email address. However, no one knows that support how long does it exile!
By the way, iCards and Tiger support will be stopped with passing the Mobile Me service. Equalization of bookmark support will be stayed but accesing from browser wont be possible anymore. Also, .Mac slides feature wont work anymore.
In summary, they still eyewashing to Steve Jobs lovers. Mobile Me service still so expensive, protected amazing price with .Mac service and its harmonized with iPhone. Congratulations Steve Jobs, you did it again.
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