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Apple announces iPad MobileMe integration: Find My iPad and iPad Remote Wipe

Saturday, April 3, 2010 · 8:18 pm · 16 Comments

“iPad MobileMe integration has been announced with Apple revealing iPad versions of the Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe features that have recovered many a lost iPhone and deleted plenty of pictures the world was never meant to see,” Mic Wright reports for Electricpig.

“If you’ve got a MobileMe account (or plonk down £59 [US$99] a year to get one) you’ll be able to sync your email, calendars and other information between your iPad, iPhone and other computers,” Wright reports. MobileMe also gives your iPad access to iDisk and MobileMe email account which adds up to 20GB of storage in the cloud [or more, if you pay for it].

“Find My iPad will work best for the iPad 3G. The WiFi iPad doesn’t have GPS built-in so will need to be hooked up to a WiFi network for you to find it,” Wright reports. “If your iPad is permanently lost, you’ll be able to use Remote Wipe to remove all your files. Again, if you’ve opted for the WiFi-only iPad, it’ll need to be connected to do that.”

Full article here.

Apple today also posted a new article to MobileMe News: Setting Up MobileMe on iPad

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Lava_Head_UK" for the heads up.]

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16 Comments

Mactacular

Saturday, April 3, 2010 - 8:53 pm · Reply

I am loving the device so far. However, they need better iDisk integration on this thing. The only iDisk you have is the old iPhone app and it doesn’t allow you to bring your files into to any of the iWork suite. I hope they are going to fix this asap. I would have expected integration from day one.
chabig

Saturday, April 3, 2010 - 9:13 pm · Reply

Even if you have the 3g iPad I bet you have to have a wireless data plan for it to work on anything but wifi. However, having the GPS is still a plus.
Kevin Winsness

Saturday, April 3, 2010 - 10:00 pm · Reply

Got it….. own it……. love it!!! Thanks Apple Inc.
dan

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 12:42 am · Reply

got an iPad for my 90 year old mother – she instantly “got it”, and kicked her laptop to the curb. She’s even making her own channels in Pandora for iPad. This my friends is a game changing appliance computer for all the masses. Apple wins.
Jim - TIV

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 1:41 am · Reply

Well, sad to say I’m taking my iPad back tomorrow and turning it in. I love everything it does, but I really needed it to be more functional in Keynote.

The drawback are minor, but a deal breaker for me. It only has 25 fonts or so, and you can’t see presenter notes, or upcoming slides when your presenting to a video projector.

I would be great as a one on one sales tool, or to show in a small group, but I was hoping it would replace my macbook that I present keynote lectures off of.

Finally, the last thing that made it not work for me is you can’t use Keynote Remote to control the ipad from your iphone. Just would have made it work if it had because you can see presenter notes in that app.

Ah well, I really wanted a 3G model anyways. Maybe these things will be fixed in the first upgrade.
Jonk

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 2:44 am · Reply

@Jim – TIV What a whiney comment. Would it have killed you to wait one day and preview one in a store.
vincas

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 3:06 am · Reply

@Jim – TIV,

Thanks for your comment. I’m looking to buy one largely for presentations too. I don’t need lectures notes, but easier integration with the Keynote Remote (with my macbook too) would be nice. I don’t live in the USA, so will have to wait a while one way or the other.
Ting

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 4:48 am · Reply

@Jonk: Why the caustic comment about Jim – TIV’s post? Would it have killed you to suppress your vitriolic bile? Huh?

Jim – TIV did the right thing to address his personal desire to get hands-on, at his own leisure, in evaluating the iPad. Spending the $499+ was his free choice and no concern of yours! He wanted to make an informed decision. And his post was a proactive one designed to inform MDN readers which I (living outside the US), greatly value.

Somehow, I suspect Jim would have kept the iPad if it had worked as he’d expected… which probably would have deprived Jonk of his daily dump (or should I say Zune?)

By the way, where is old ‘Tang?
MacMyke

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 6:34 am · Reply

Almost 24 hours later and I am loving it!
spatlantean

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 6:36 am · Reply

I expected MDN to bring us a personal IPad review and hit on points of the device that have not been covered in the media like the symbiotic relationship the IPad wll bring to other Apple products. Also I expect the new IPhone design to be even more complimentary to the IPad and mobile me than it is now.
spyinthesky

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 7:39 am · Reply

Unfortunately zunie is still recovering after being stuck in that iPad queue all night.
@Jim - TIV

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 8:44 am · Reply

The iPad isn’t *supposed* to be a Macbook replacement.

Buying one with the expectation it will be = setting yourself up for dissapointment. Or at least Apple hopes so because they don’t want Macbook sales to get murdered.
vincas

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 9:51 am · Reply

@Jim – TIV (and others)

I don’t need a full laptop replacement, but something that I can check email on, browse the web, run Keynote (and connect it to a projector), run Pages, and listen to music on (note – all apple apps). If I can switch between those quickly and easily (perhaps more so with rumored iPhone OS 4 software update), I’ll be quite happy. I don’t see myself focussing on ebooks, or really buying many other apps, renting movies, etc. It seems like that iPad can be many things to many people, which perhaps is its strength.
Original Jake

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 4:32 pm · Reply

Those who don’t immediately find the ideal functionality on the iPad and give up on it are just being silly (or they’re trolls). Apple ALWAYS adds significant functionality to first generation devices through software upgrades–just look at the upgrades that iPhone received!! And that goes double for app upgrades to accommodate a brand new device. There are also multiple third party apps for some funtionality, such as for controlling a Keynote presentation.
Tim Flint

Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 10:21 pm · Reply

Most people are not buying iPads for the iBooks, but that’s what will sell them students from grade school through college. All your text books on one iPad and no piles of old text books to unload. As one Professor said to me, “This is the end of the backpack”
KirstenPike

Monday, April 5, 2010 - 6:40 am · Reply

Good feature and i want to buy this mobile…

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