MobileMe currently costs £59 for a year’s subscription. That includes cloud storage via iDisk, a MobileMe email account, photo galleries and contacts, calendar and bookmarks syncing for Mac, PC and iPhone. There’s also the handy Find My iPhone and Find My iPad features.
But compared to the free set of tools from Google, the new Facebook Docs service and Microsoft’s own Office Web apps, MobileMe is starting to look a little pricey. Offering it for free would make a lot of sense, especially if it arrived alongside the long-rumoured iTunes cloud service (which seems more likely since Apple shut Lala).
MobileMe is the third version of Apple’s online services. In its original form, iTools, it was free. The rumours claim MobileMe will return to that free state “sooner rather than later” but that the move “depends on certain facilities going operational”. That’s likely to mean Apple’s new server centre in North Carolina.
Apple bough the Suri iPhone voice search app earlier this month in a move that many thought was aimed at getting at Google Android. Integrating MobileMe with iPhone 4.0 in the same way Android works with Google Docs and Gmail could be another weapon in its arsenal.
Let us know: do you use MobileMe? We’ve always been keen on the contacts, calendar and bookmark syncing and Find My iPhone has saved our skins at least once. But do iDisk and the photo gallery functions pull their weight?
Out now | £59 per year | Apple (via Mac Daily News)
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