“The calendaring feature that Apple has demonstrated on iPad is a case in point. On the iPhone or on a web page, MobileMe calendaring options make it tough to want to migrate to it from Google calendaring or Outlook,” Moltzen writes. “It’s a ‘me-too’ application. On the iPhone, you can’t tilt the calendar to ‘landscape’ presentation and you can’t flip through pages like a real calendar book. iPad changes that, and offers just enough graphical-user interface improvements to turn it from ‘me too’ to ‘oh, yeah.’
“MobileMe’s iDisk suddenly becomes a lot more useful, too. Apple provides 20 GB of storage with MobileMe accounts,” Moltzen reports. “iPad will, if all goes according to plan, provide useful access to that cloud-based data. So for someone who buys, say, a 32 GB iPad, you can have access to another 20 GB via MobileMe.”
“iDisk is now the real thing. It’s easy and it works, and its interface is built around the concept of touch computing – – making it unique among offerings now provided by rivals like Microsoft, Google and others. On iPad, it could prove to be a game-changer,” Moltzen reports. “And, importantly, Apple now offers free, 60-day trials for MobileMe… At no cost for two months, it’s almost a no-brainer for the iPad.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]