MobileMe requires OS X 10.5.4?
TUAW reader Lee Car noticed something odd whilst reading the Terms and Conditions of MobileMe (I'm impressed that anyone actually reads that stuff). The official System Requirements of MobileMe say that you need 'Mac OS X v10.4.11 or latest version of Mac OS X Leopard,' which isn't all that newsy worthy. However, as you can see above, the MobileMe Terms of Service lists Mac OS X v10.4.11, v10.5.4, or later. Very interesting, huh?
This leads me to believe that around the time MobileMe launches ( July 11) we'll see 10.5.4.
Update: Cory reminds me that one of our tipsters told us to expect OS X 10.5.4 during the second week of June. Looks pretty likely to me.
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Alfie said 11:06PM on 6-09-2008
Actually, I assumed an OS update would have to come to prepare the iCal, Mail, Address Book, etc. for push capability. Also, all the references to .Mac in the OS (system preferences, etc.) will have to be updated to MobileMe as well.
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Joe said 11:24PM on 6-09-2008
Spot on... Spot on...
jojo the dancer said 11:15PM on 6-09-2008
omg!
plus, if you look at your own screen cap it also says iTunes 7.7. but how can that be? iTunes is only at 7.6.2. what does this mean? what is going on here?
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Quine said 12:03AM on 6-10-2008
actually we already expected itunes 7.7 to come out, as they said it would be released near the app store so it could support that.
Gus Jenkins said 6:24AM on 6-10-2008
"Update: Cory reminds me that one of our tipsters told us to expect OS X 10.5.4 during the second week of June. Looks pretty likely to me."
By my calculations, this is the second week of June.
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Kev Orng said 8:20AM on 6-10-2008
Your title nearly turned me into one of those disgruntled Mac fans. I'm glad I read deeper to realize that 10.4.11 is okay as well. As a long time dotMac user and a G4 800 powermac owner (ergo, not invited to the Leopard Club), I would have been ticked at being forced to buy new hardware.
Yeah, I plan to buy new hardware anyway, but I don't want to be forced!
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Peter said 9:22AM on 6-10-2008
How is this interesting? Updates come out. It's not like it's some amazing discovery that there will be more updates to Leopard.
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Chris said 1:25PM on 6-10-2008
iPhone 3G also requires iTunes 7.7
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