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 platform AND I suspect that Google will not be too far behind with iPhone apps that do their own version of things, no?) -- dave On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 iPhoto user running a small business. And > let's say my laptop dies. What then? Unless I've backed everything up every > day, I'm at risk for losing a huge amount of ... stuff. Personal photos, > email to clients, extensive email archives, my entire schedule, etc. > If it's all online, there's no problem. > Currently, I use Google Apps for my business. Gmail, Gcal, etc — and it all > gets synced up to my iPhone and I can wander the streets of NYC for 3 days > and conduct all sorts of business without ever touching my laptop. > MobileMail offers the same things (plus photos, minus docs), and it offers > all this with Apple interfaces, which are way simpler than Google Apps. > It's all the stuff I love about Apple's desktop apps, but online, where I > need it. > -r- -- David Malouf http://synapticburn.com/ http://ixda.org/ http://motorola.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
