“Apple Computer last week asked the United States Patent and Trademark Office to grant it a trademark on the term ‘Mobile Me,'” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider. “On January 5th, the company made four separate filings on the term, covering a broad range of technologies and services.”
Marsal reports that the first filing describes Mobile Me as a computing device, the second filing covers the digital audio space, the third filing relates Mobile Me to a consumer electronics portable device, and the fourth covers Mobile Me as telecommunication services.
Full article with descriptions of the four separate filings here.
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They haven’t even cooled down, yet, but fire up the rumor mills!
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The only thing I hate about these types of filings is that it seems like they file them even for technology that never sees the light of day. Understandable, but it sure doesn’t help us figure out what they’re up to!
After a three year PERIOD of announcing and then immediately withdrawing the feature, perhaps this is the reincarnation of “Home on iPod”!!!!!
For those who don’t know, this was the ability to have your personal settings saved to an iPod so you can go to any Mac, attach the iPod, and then log in to your desktop, address book, bookmarks, and such.
could Mobile Me be the combo of a Newton, iPod, cell phone, mini laptop? I can see year end headlines “30 years later, and still the tech leader”
Didn’t we just get burnt and scarred by rumors. Here we go again…
Even though I got my daughter a Nano for Christmas I still see the iPod as pure luxury – which I can’t afford. I’ve always felt that the iPod concept is always one step away from being a useful PDA device with great multimedia to boot. If they really do start making a more PDA-like iPod I will definitely start thinking about an iPod for myself.
Not sure I like it. Sounds too reminiscent of “Windows ME”.
Relate yourself to garbage, smell the same way.
The patent application for the camera in the notebook lid came true yesterday…
^ ” . . . smell the same way.” ?
Get it?
I’m a SKUNK!!
I guess they are also going to branch this technology out to the Mac Mini and call it….Mini Me.
Look for Mobile Me to be the following:
1. Used as an advertising slogan.
2. An internet service that will be rolled out as part of .Mac
3. A new tool for OS X 10.5 that allows all Apple apps to sync data to iPod
And One More Thing…
4. A new Apple PDA for Macworld Jan 2007
“You talkin’ to me?”
iPod headphones with no cables…
What if this thing comes out next week…looks like an iPod…and weighs 8 pounds and has a 10 inch screen!!!!!
Actually, it’s part of the naming strategy for Apple. Previously, Apple would have referred to it as “iMobile.” Now it’s “Mobile Me.”
Look for the next version of the iMac to be renamed “Mac Me”, the next version of the iSight to be “See Me” and the next version of the iPod to be “Pod Me.”
(In case no one has figured it out, I’m kidding.)
Vingles!
I’ll be the first one to buy this new PocketMac
Again:
Mobile Darwin
Mobile OS X
Mobile Spotlight
Mobile Mail
Mobile iCal
Mobile Safari
Mobile iChat
Mobile Calculator
Mobile Quicktime
Why Apple would not stake a claim in the Mobile OS war that Windows Mobile and Linux are fighting for is beyond me. Palm is now owned by Access (NTT DoCoMo).
If it weighs in at 8 lbs… Apple better be getting into exercise equipment.
This has got to be Apple’s version of mobile centrino wireless technology? Whaddayathink?
Yeah, remember the hoo haa about Vingle?? BFD.
MW: Says. I says- Katie Marsal and all the others: STFU
Smartphones are becoming like laptops. Apple doesn’t want in?
I haven’t seen 1 filling that came true
There really is no such thing as “Centrino technology”, so you can’t think of Apple’s patent application in relation to that.
“Centrino” is just a sticker they put on the outside of a laptop that has a Pentium-M processor and an Intel-branded radio. If your radio is any of a godzillion possible brands besides Intel, or your processor happens to be an AMD and your radio is Intel, no snazzy “Centrino” sticker on the outside, and you often save $100 or more because of it.
Your computer functions the same either way. It doesn’t care who made your processor as long as it’s x86 compatible, and it doesn’t care about who made your radio as long as it’s 802.11b/g compatible. “Centrino” is just a brand, a product exclusively from Intel’s marketing, not engineering, department.
Pentium M processor + Intel branded radio = Centrino
Pentium M processor – Intel branded radio = Not Centrino
“perhaps this is the reincarnation of “Home on iPod”
Wouldn’t that require Firewire?
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