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

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 iPhoto

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

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

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