Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's "MobileMe"?

2008-06-10 Thread J. Ambrose Little
Regarding MobileMe, it sounds like it is basically the same stuff as Microsoft's Live Mesh announced a while ago? What is Apple doing that is better? Or is it just that most folks here use Macs primarily? I'm genuinely curious--not interested in a general MS vs Apple debate (or commercial/spoofs

Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's "MobileMe"?

2008-06-10 Thread David Malouf
All I was trying to say is that sometimes the "personal" is not enough. Critical mass around social/community is a determining factor for some, no? (Sorry, I'm also stuck on a PC, so many of the factors you mention are not there for me, but I thought the social factors are there regardless of plat

Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's "MobileMe"?

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Hoekman Jr
> > So "MobileMe" means very little to me so far no matter how "cool" it > is. I'll still do photos on Flickr and I'll still do docs on Google > Docs/Apps. For many people, it won't be about how "cool" it is, Dave. There is a genuinely useful business case here. Let's say I'm a Mail, iCal, and i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's "MobileMe"?

2008-06-10 Thread dave malouf
What I find interesting is something that has come up for me recently when comparing Acrobat.com to GoogleApps. I LOVE (can't understate this) Acrobat.com, especially buzzword for document editing (text/Word processing). But I still live in Google Apps. Why? b/c 'everyone' already has a google acc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's "MobileMe"?

2008-06-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
> Actually, it's iPhone 3G. But wow, what an idea - iPhone 3D! ...according to the WWDC Keynote presentation, it does have OpenGL ES for 3D graphics in their "Media" API layer. Not sure what applications already use this, but it wouldn't surprise me if Cover Flow was one instance of its use. It d