“Apple during a Q&A session at its shareholder meeting confirmed some of the role and timing of its North Carolina datacenter,” Electronista reports.
“The facility is targeted at supporting both iTunes and MobileMe, the copmany [sic] said, and is due to go live during the spring,” Electronista reports. “It didn’t provide official details as to what the enhanced services would involve.”
Electronista reports, “The remarks indirectly confirm plans for a major overhaul to MobileMe that would make iTunes a significant component of the upgrade.”
Read more in the full article here.
Just give me ad-free free for life MobileMe. And I promise I’ll remember to wear a smile everyday on my face.
I want a MobileMe martini glass.
@Alcohol
Is that you or the booze talking?
I just want mobileMe to be useful with respect to speed (which it is not)
NC plant to be unveiled around the time of the sale of iPad 2; what an amazing coincidence.
Gee, I hope it doesn’t cause too much disruption to the me too companies trying to sell their look alike products. Too bad they don’t have a look alike ecosystem.
I want better functionality from iDisk (goodbye Dropbox)
iPhoto and iTunes streaming/backup along with the rest your Home Folder (goodbye Crashplan)
More robust calendar syncing (goodbye BusyCal and Things)
Much better Mail sorting (goodbye….OK I got nuthin’)
Of course, to be fair to these developers, Apple could license or just but their services.
Also, I don’t care anything about it being free.
That is a dead-end business model without ads.
I have to agree with you TowerTone:
-better functionality from iDisk, slow slow slow
-iTunes backup.
And …. anything that’s totally free, psychologically has zero value. Go figure.
The extra bandwith required for this service will go perfectly with the proposed plans to allow ISPs to charge per GB on home Internet usage in Canada /sarcasm
‘but’? Obviously I meant ‘by’…
did anyone notice they spelled company like “copmany”. just thought I’d point that out
Here.. let me fix that for you…
“… Enhanced services include Mobile Me that actually works for our subscribers including our much advertised yet still broken “Push” technology, and iDisc syncs that are not slowed down to a crippled snail’s pace. ”
There.. that’s MUCH better!
Better iDisk bandwidth in Europe’d sure light up the room.
/Eurotard
Sigh…..I just wish that Apple would FIX MobileMe before “improving” it. I dream of a day when iDisk works inside the Finder. Seamless integration with OS X my ass!
Yeah, iDisk is good if you use the iDisk syncing feature. Sadly, I think if MM is free, then iAd will propagate into it.
iPad2 + iTune/Mobile Me improvements from fast NC data center…. Sounds like a recipes for internet meltdown. Will AT&T backbone (or is it Verizon backbone in East Coast) handle the sudden jump in the internet usage, a day after iPad2s ship?
Personally, I think whoever is the product manager at Apple for MobileMe should be chain whipped for at least 24 solid hours.
“iTunes could depend more directly on the datacenter5 should Apple move increasingly to a streaming model and away from its emphasis on downloading once and syncing locally. Apple TV6 owners have complained that Apple’s current dependence on a rental model for the mostly storage-free hub have made it inconvenient to watch purchased movies and TV shows, but a full streaming model would give users access to any movie they purchased on a given account, much as with Amazon Instant Video.
“During the meeting, Apple was asked the about the prospect of streamed TV replacing conventional TV service and indirectly supported the claim, though it didn’t confirm anything. “Yes,” it said to the replacement prospect, adding that it would continue to add ‘new media types’ for end users.”
Not good for Netflix, if the above is true.