Non-Filipin
o readers might find this post's title odd, but it's just Taglish<
/em> for "I'm mobile", which for this blogger is a clumsy play on the rumored n
ew name for Apple's .Mac service (and for the purposes of this
blog will be referred to as DotMac, to retain the sanity of m
y word processor's autocorrect feature.) It's also a play on the current and mo
re-than-annoying marketing campaign of local telecom provider Smart Com
munications called "Me na Me" presently irritating us
silly here in Manila for their Smart Buddy service.
Ok. So there I go ruining the whole structure of the post just so I could have
my silly title. Let's just have it out then: According to rumors, Apple seems t
o be set on renaming their DotMac service, that US$99 one-year thing where you
get a paltry amount of online storage and a snotty email address that ends in "
mac.com" (and some other stuff), to Mobile Me. Ugh.
Dunno about you, but the fact that you can get everything DotMac is offering fo
r free elsewhere online seems to me a testament to the lengths fanboys will go
to for their mothership. (Full disclosure: I used to be suckered into this thin
g too, and had a DotMac account for three years or so until I wised up and save
d my money instead to buy more useful things like food. And beer.) But apparent
ly it may be time to come back to the fold.
According to many archived reports, Apple trademarked the name Mobile Mac on Ja
n. 5, 2006, and while much was made of it at the time as Apple folk are wont to
do, nothing happened and people forgot about it. Now though, people poking thr
ough the code of the recently released 10.5.3 update of Leopard have come across considerable evidence that Apple is finally going to use the
two-year-old name, presumably after the relaunching announcement to be made at
Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote on June 9.
A rose by any other name, blah blah. What's more important is what new
stuff it will offer for the hundred bucks (or however much they'll be charging
for it), and right now all we can do is make educated guesses. Obviously it wi
ll tie in with the new 3G iPhone and include stuff like push email, wireless sy
ncing and things Blackberry fans have been enjoying for years.
We'll just have to add Mobile Me to our list of things to wait for during the
keynote. If it had really useful features, I wouldn't be averse to signing back
up again and resurrecting my old DotMac address.
Which also means most of us renegade iPhone users will have to formally sign up
with Globe Telecom when it finally releases the phone for my
country (sometime in September, if rumors are to be believed). Obviously my non
-3G first-gen kracked-and-jailbroken iPhone won't do, so I'll have to pony up f
or the new one. Life is hard. Ah, well.
(By the way, is it just me, or does Mobile Me really sound like an embarrasingl
y jejune name for an Apple service? It even sounds ...Microsoftian, like someth
ing Gates and Ballmer might've thought up. Sheesh.)
[Box art mock-up via TUAW]
Mobile na Me
Non-Filipin
o readers might find this post's title odd, but it's just Taglish<
/em> for "I'm mobile", which for this blogger is a clumsy play on the rumored n
ew name for Apple's .Mac service (and for the purposes of this
blog will be referred to as DotMac, to retain the sanity of m
y word processor's autocorrect feature.) It's also a play on the current and mo
re-than-annoying marketing campaign of local telecom provider Smart Com
munications called "Me na Me" presently irritating us
silly here in Manila for their Smart Buddy service.
Ok. So there I go ruining the whole structure of the post just so I could have
my silly title. Let's just have it out then: According to rumors, Apple seems t
o be set on renaming their DotMac service, that US$99 one-year thing where you
get a paltry amount of online storage and a snotty email address that ends in "
mac.com" (and some other stuff), to Mobile Me. Ugh.
Dunno about you, but the fact that you can get everything DotMac is offering fo
r free elsewhere online seems to me a testament to the lengths fanboys will go
to for their mothership. (Full disclosure: I used to be suckered into this thin
g too, and had a DotMac account for three years or so until I wised up and save
d my money instead to buy more useful things like food. And beer.) But apparent
ly it may be time to come back to the fold.
According to many archived reports, Apple trademarked the name Mobile Mac on Ja
n. 5, 2006, and while much was made of it at the time as Apple folk are wont to
do, nothing happened and people forgot about it. Now though, people poking thr
ough the code of the recently released 10.5.3 update of Leopard have come across considerable evidence that Apple is finally going to use the
two-year-old name, presumably after the relaunching announcement to be made at
Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote on June 9.
A rose by any other name, blah blah. What's more important is what new
stuff it will offer for the hundred bucks (or however much they'll be charging
for it), and right now all we can do is make educated guesses. Obviously it wi
ll tie in with the new 3G iPhone and include stuff like push email, wireless sy
ncing and things Blackberry fans have been enjoying for years.
We'll just have to add Mobile Me to our list of things to wait for during the
keynote. If it had really useful features, I wouldn't be averse to signing back
up again and resurrecting my old DotMac address.
Which also means most of us renegade iPhone users will have to formally sign up
with Globe Telecom when it finally releases the phone for my
country (sometime in September, if rumors are to be believed). Obviously my non
-3G first-gen kracked-and-jailbroken iPhone won't do, so I'll have to pony up f
or the new one. Life is hard. Ah, well.
(By the way, is it just me, or does Mobile Me really sound like an embarrasingl
y jejune name for an Apple service? It even sounds ...Microsoftian, like someth
ing Gates and Ballmer might've thought up. Sheesh.)
[Box art mock-up via TUAW]
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huh! iPhone 2.0 is 3G? nah, i'm sticking to my jailbroken one (with a Smart sim
that i've had for several years. I hate changing numbers!)
im just looking forward for two more years with more awesome technology, and mo
ney to pay for that awesome technology.
but i didnt know i didnt even say that the 2.0 iPhone will extremely be rock aw
esome. but what about a mobile mac for a rumored tablet macbook? that is friggi
n great for all i care right now!
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