Apple posts MobileMe Guided Tour

Good insight about "mobileme" sounding not so "mac-esque". I seriously see the benefit in this if you have (for example) a macbook, mac, or iphone. Any 3+ mac setup would almost require mobileme. But other wise, just an iphone and 1 other mac I think you could easily get by with IMAPing and local usb syncs. But the freedom of that wireless syncing is REALLY cool and think a lot of commentors are just curmudgeonly about already having a .mac. come on. How could you NOT want that?!! I don't know. I'm still finding cool features in leopard so I'm satisfied but one thing I AM very interested in getting away from is gmail. gmail has the mot hideously god-awful IMAP bugginess possible. Having a solid mac domain would set things right finally with email I think.

It would be really nice if there was a way to share contacts between two accounts. I'd like to maintain my contacts, but my wife could have access to them as well in her @me.com account.

I wonder how subscribed calendars will work with the wireless sync. For example, if my wife has a @me.com account that syncs to her MacBook and iPhone, and I have a @me.com account that syncs to my MacBook Pro and iPhone. Now I'm subscribed to her calendar in iCal, now she adds an appointment on her iPhone, it's pushed to the "cloud", down to her MacBook, done. But since I'm subscribed, does it get pushed down to my iPhone as well?

I can't help but think someone at Apple thought they were clever since many have complained about the "i" prefix being overused on everything. So if they can't or shouldn't use "i" for something like imobile.com, why not go with a "me" suffix? At least we didn't see ime.com.

At any rate I don't think it's as bad as some here do. Apple needed something to appeal to non-mac users and found one that has a friendly consumer-ish ring to it. From what I understand new users of the service can pick whether they want mac.com or the new one.

I will get this if mail can replace gmail. No threading = no use. Also i'll have to untangle my 50+ gmail addresses....one day...

i'm just doing this so Firefox can remember my password. why can't we change our passwords on this web site... I'll never know

Cool idea, stupid name. Looks too close to Windows ME.
But when Nintendo went from revolution to weee, i thought that was dumb. Apparently the public doesn't care about names anymore.

Are we 100% sure that my .mac email address is going away? If so... that blows! I really dont want to tell someone my email address is xxxx @me.com. That really annoying and lame. .mac prompts apple discussion @me.com strikes me as vain and studid.

I scoured Apple's site--looks like to dos still don't sync. Apparently Apple believes its users enjoy leisurely existences with no actions required of them.

Am I the only one who thinks the MobileMe name and logo are so "un-Apple-like"?

Opinions on the services provided aside, the logo just seems too "cartoony." And .Mac is a way cooler name than MobileMe.

Maybe it's just me......