WWDC 2008
Jun/09/2008 22:09 Filed in: Mac
We have all been bombarded from our favorite Apple
and Technology sites about the Jesus Phone 2.0, aka
iPhone 2.0.
Just couple things to note from the first day of WWDC 2008.
First is the lower initial price of the 3G iPhone. It is great that the new iPhone cost less money upfront, however, it is a bummer that the monthly service fee will be more expensive than the current Edge Network based iPhone. I don’t know if the 3G service plans being offered for the 3G iPhone are more or less expensie than what other carriers are offering for the 3G phones they sell - nonetheless it’s sort of a drag that the monthly fee is increasing - even if the speeds are better. I’m sure that you’ll likely be better off paying a few more bucks a month and hundreds less for the 3G iPhone anyway.
MobileMe, I’m actually very excited about the upgrades to MobileMe as it replaces .Mac. I recently became a paying user of .Mac, I came around to seeing the value of it but admittedly I was banking on the fact that it would be revamped and upgraded at some point. I didn’t expect the overhaul to come so soon, and neither did I expect it to go away from .Mac and to MobileMe. Time to change my email address with everybody yet one more time...
I have a feeling that the move from .Mac to MobileMe is a very deliberate one. While I know that Apple is extremely proud of their Mac computers, it seems that they are trying to sanitize .Mac from being a Mac only offering. By calling it MobileMe and working with Microsoft’s Outlook they appear to be trying to make MobileMe appeal not only to Mac users but also Windows users who use an iPhone. Given the success of the iPod on the Windows platform it is hard to argue this strategy if it is in fact something that Apple is trying to do.
It does seem to me that Apple should give away a year free subscription to .Mac/MobileMe with every Mac computer purchase, and slash the annual fee from $99 to $49. I’ll bet it would grow exponentially in the number of users, and the profits they make from it.
Just couple things to note from the first day of WWDC 2008.
First is the lower initial price of the 3G iPhone. It is great that the new iPhone cost less money upfront, however, it is a bummer that the monthly service fee will be more expensive than the current Edge Network based iPhone. I don’t know if the 3G service plans being offered for the 3G iPhone are more or less expensie than what other carriers are offering for the 3G phones they sell - nonetheless it’s sort of a drag that the monthly fee is increasing - even if the speeds are better. I’m sure that you’ll likely be better off paying a few more bucks a month and hundreds less for the 3G iPhone anyway.
MobileMe, I’m actually very excited about the upgrades to MobileMe as it replaces .Mac. I recently became a paying user of .Mac, I came around to seeing the value of it but admittedly I was banking on the fact that it would be revamped and upgraded at some point. I didn’t expect the overhaul to come so soon, and neither did I expect it to go away from .Mac and to MobileMe. Time to change my email address with everybody yet one more time...
I have a feeling that the move from .Mac to MobileMe is a very deliberate one. While I know that Apple is extremely proud of their Mac computers, it seems that they are trying to sanitize .Mac from being a Mac only offering. By calling it MobileMe and working with Microsoft’s Outlook they appear to be trying to make MobileMe appeal not only to Mac users but also Windows users who use an iPhone. Given the success of the iPod on the Windows platform it is hard to argue this strategy if it is in fact something that Apple is trying to do.
It does seem to me that Apple should give away a year free subscription to .Mac/MobileMe with every Mac computer purchase, and slash the annual fee from $99 to $49. I’ll bet it would grow exponentially in the number of users, and the profits they make from it.
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