• Gallery
– Gallery app for viewing shared photos and movies on iPhone and iPod touch
– Support for video publishing in Aperture 3
• iDisk
– Improved iDisk sync reliability for Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later
– iDisk app support for email address auto-completion when sharing files, and copying images to the clipboard on iPhone and iPod touch
• Sync of contacts
– Improved sync reliability on Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later, and on Windows with MobileMe Control Panel 1.5.2
• Find my iPhone
– Safari access on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
• Account
– Password strength indicator to help in creation of a secure password
– Ability to convert an email aliases to family pack member account
• me.com website
– SSL access for web applications at me.com
• Mail beta at me.com
– Widescreen and compact views
– Rules to keep your email organized everywhere
– Single-click archiving
– Message formatting toolbar
– Improved performance
– Increased security with SSL
For more information, see MobileMe Mail Beta: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Thanks, Apple.
I love the new update it is so much easier to use!
Here is a question for you……is the biggest/newest feature for MobileMe is the price….is it FREE yet? Only being free will help pull additional people over the wall from gmail, hotmail, and all the other free webapps…..APPLE, PLEASE LISTEN…….MAKE MOBILEME GOOD AND FREE AND YOU WILL SELL MORE iPRODUCTS!!!
OK… now make it free and I’ll use it….
that’s funny Uh huh……great minds think alike and at the same time…..
Yawn! I still miss iCards!
If MobileMe offers a free service, like Google and its Apps, it will probably have some iAd services, or something else for Apple to make money. Or to put it another way, if Apple offers a paid MobileMe service and a free one, there will have to be some differentiation.
I do not mind paying for service. I just want value for it. I pay for Google Apps for my small company. I am interested to see what Apple can offer to the small business community through MobileMe, or perhaps it will continue to stick with single consumer-oriented products. If so, then Google will continue to get my dollars.
Whatever happen to paying for a good product.
Thanks Apple!
Now how about multiple email accounts on me.com or for matter on mail.com
Okay, rules are nice. But how about syncing the rules from my Mac. Do I really have to recreate a dozen different rules for MobileMe. And how about updating the the Gallery and iDisk apps for the iPad and making them more functional. I pay for this and would really like a little more, plus some consistency. MobileMe development seems to be moving very slow. I have been patient for years on this.
Oh, and ditto the iCards! haha!
but free with every applecare mac would be nice promo
and lower yearly a bit 79 sounds better
MobileMe won’t be completely free. The iPhone/iPad locator and over the air shutdown is not going to be included. Expect your disk space to be reduced if they give that and gallery too. Apple will make you pay (I don’t mind at all for what it’s been able to do). They have to pay for that server farm maintenance somehow. Thanks for the updates. Mobile me beta has been great so far too.
OK… now make it free and I’ll use it….
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They only have like 40 billion in cash. You have to wonder when they’re really going to unleash this thing, and make it competitive with MS and GooG offerings. (Yeah, I mean, make it Free)
Yes, multiple mail accounts! Please. Give mobile me to new mac/iDevices buyers for one free year, cut the price in half and people will be so hooked, they won’t stop using it.
one word…. Drop. Box.
…ok that’s two…sue me.
OK now will someone make the sales pitch to me ’cause I really want to use MobileMe. I know there are things it does that DropBox doesn’t do–they’re not even the same type of service.
one caveat, I’m on OS 10.4.11…..STOP LAUGHING!!!!
That “free” rumor appears to have been pretty destructive to Apple, based on the comments here. Way to go, Google, these folks are no longer inclined to buy MobileMe from Apple.
Personally, I’d much rather pay for a service like MobileMe, because then I’m the actual customer. With “free” services, the site’s only customers are their ad partners. I’d much rather have them accoutable to me.
Anyone else been around since iTools?
hello! when can i get alias access on the iphone, come on!
@C1
iTools since 2001!
but is it free?
@ChrissyOne,
Yep. It’s come a long way baby…
Yeah, it would be great if MobileMe were free, but I still find it worth the $100 per year. Sure, gmail is free but I don’t trust Google to protect my privacy. Goobers.
iTools day one.
ChrissyOne, I’ve been a member since 20th Feb 2001, it even says so in my MobileMe System Preferences!
@ ChrissyOne
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Yea, original iTools member here (Mac user since the 128k Mac . . . )
iTools came free with OS9 as I recall, but it didn’t have find my iPhone.
I agree, its needs to be free. Google offers google sync, calendar , mail.ect. And its all free. Similar to what apple is charging for. If apple wants to hold that edge they should make it free, or reduce to like $29.99
iTools day 1, Jan 5 2000. Have used same account for the past ten years.
Still has the lame ass name. Bring back .Mac!
People have told me I have been a tool my whole life. So that’s a membership of 39 years
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these things are nice, but damn, I wish it were snappier!
I think they should up the storage that’s included in the price from 20 gigs ( is that what is nowadays?) to 1 tbyte at least. That might actually make iDisk practical for something.
“make it competitive with services like Google by making it free”
Uhm, I am not an economist… but how do you justify competition on free products? Especially when one is ad driven and the other is not.
Also don’t think for a second that if Apple were to make MobileMe free but insert ads the entire world wouldn’t heap on them for some stupid reason or another.
iTools user since January 22, 2000. I still have the same account, too!
early itools user here also.
Long ago they had the complete Freeplay Music library uploaded to iTools, I downloaded the whole 40 gigs back in the late 90’s.
Now it’s a paid site online. I think the guys left Apple and went out on their own.
@ Contrarian,
“If MobileMe offers a free service, like Google and its Apps, it will probably have some iAd services, or something else for Apple to make money.”
I though Apple was all about selling hardware. When did they turn into Google? If Apple makes MobileMe free it will be free as in beer.
make that download in 2001
Apple, UPDATE your iPad apps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, am I missing something? I requested to use the Mail beta, but I see no difference. I went into my settings, but I don’t see the options mentioned here.
@C1
Member since Jan. 7, 2000
Maybe a bit pricey, but it does everything I need, especially allowing me to share large files & photos with clients, family & friends via a direct URL link. And sync has even worked flawlessly for the past year.
@Mac4lfe:
“Whatever happen to paying for a good product.”
Are you saying that iLife is a “bad” product because it is free with the purchase of a new Mac computer?
OR
Are you saying Apple should announce at the WWDC maybe, the start of bundling MobileMe with Apple’s mobile products iPhone/iPod Touch… iPad maybe… and make only MobileMe upgrades a ‘PAID’ requirement?
@Everyone that wants MobileMe for free.
Come on guys! If you want free products, get a PC and download all the free crap out there. There a bazillion free apps out there. I assume most people that spend money on a Mac realize that a little extra money buys quality.
It took me a few seconds to find MobileMe on Amazon.com for $64.50. If you’re really cheap, get the 60-day trial, then buy it from Amazon. That works out to about $4.60 per month for the first 14 months (and about $5.40 per month for every year after).
Still not worth the price. $40 to 50 max (IMHO), we are all allowed to establish what something is worth. That is the upper end too. Since Mobile Me primarily supports devices purchased by Apple, I wish Apple would change the business model. 1 free year with each new device purchase, and then a subsidized lower rate $10 – $30 per year for 1 or 2 years.
Glacial updates, would like to see a little more for my money
Hey, I’ve been around since e-World!
Not exactly iCards, but comes close for me
http://www.vladstudio.com/cards/
I’ve been a member since the first day of iTools.
Yeah, remember when Steve promised us that it would be free for life?
@Now, Now…
iLife is not “free”. The cost is bundled with the price of the new Mac you buy.
iMaki:
I miss iCards, too.
@TheConfuzed1
“Yeah, remember when Steve promised us that it would be free for life?”
lol – yes, I do (member since 25 March, 2001).
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iTools was free for the length of its life.
@ WriterGuy
Oh yeah…eWorld. I remember the banners and the marketing push at Macworld Boston in… must have been 95? But it struck me a kind of a lame version of Prodigy. Never used it.
iTools since April 21 2001
.mac member since 2003; bring back he iCards and .mac. I absolutely detest using @me.com. I have no problem paying but again why did they have to throw all of us out the window for me.com. Please Apple dobyou hear me now???
iTools user since announced that it would be “free for life”.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
If you’re using a “free” online service, you have no say in how they run the site.
Companies like Google prey on people via their “free” services. I’d rather have a relationship with a company where I can cost them if I leave. (Sure, I probably wouldn’t cost them a whole lot, but it would be something. How much do you cost Google or Facebook if you decide to leave?)
I still think 100 bucks is steep. I really don’t use that many of the features… but a reliable sync is still essential.
those free sevices are junk!!!
mobileme is amazing
webhosting, email, sync multiple computers/devices
for less then $2 per week
there are far too many cheap ass PC users coming to mac with the silly PC ideals
“iTools user since announced that it would be ‘free for life.'”
It was free for life . . . for the life of iTools!
C1,
Been around since before iTools! By a year at least – LOL.
User since Jan. 5, 2000
Multiple iTools accounts still in play from at least 2001.
I want Apple to allow bringing aliases into standard accounts, not simple family packs. I cannot believe Apple has taken so long to address this issue, and it’s still not right.
Wasn’t there a network outage alert in one of the cave paintings in France?