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  • The MobileMe disaster continues: Now it's not 'Exchange for the rest of us' anymore

    I just received the following note that Apple sent to its sales force. In it, the company says that it will no longer use the "Exchange for the rest of us" slogan because MobileMe, unlike Exchange, does not really use push technology. This whole thing is unbelievable to me: MobileMe Messaging...
    Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-17-2008
  • Oh, about those iPhone and iPod touch backups ... Yeah, that really is a feature

    I've been noticing that every time I connect my iPhone or iPod touch to the PC, it does a very time-consuming backup before any syncing occurs. You can actually stop this backup by clicking the little "x" at the top of the application window but ... geesh. It's really annoying. Turns...
    Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-16-2008
  • MobileMe: Push vs. Sync

    I've gotten a ton of email about Apple substantially backing down from its initial claims about MobileMe's capabilities. (And not to be a jerk about it, I warned you: Unlike many people, I've used .Mac for years, and it was always a piece of @#$%. Why would MobileMe be much better?) What...
    Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
  • Apple MobileMe ... PC vs. Mac

    Apple’s MobileMe isn’t just a warmed over PC- and iPhone-compatible version of .Mac. It’s important for two reasons: Apple is jumping headfirst into the cloud computing market. (And confounding pundits who predicted they’d partner with Google.) Apple is providing a consumer-friendly Exchange-like service...
    Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-09-2008
  • Traveling with iPods

    On my return flight from Denver, I was amused to discover that the guy across the aisle and one row up from me was a proto-geek, and, frankly, kind of a pain in the ass: He placed his laptop in the seat pocket after we were told we couldn't do so, and then he argued with the flight attendant when...
    Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-08-2008
  • Macworld 2008 keynote: Initial thoughts

    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Note that these are initial thoughts only. I'm guessing there will be a lot more to say about this later. Leopard update Apple sold 5 million copies of Leopard in 2007, "the most successful year for Mac OS X ever."...
    Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-15-2008
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