What Everybody Ought To Know About Upcoming .Me For iPhone

Posted on June 3, 2008
Filed Under iPhone General

Apple announced a range of .me domains to be launched on July 17. The new .me registry is thought to be an international hit.

New .me offers business domain names with verbs, such as fly.me or drive.me. Some recent speculations say that even Apple is planning to rename its web service .Mac into Mobile Me. The new domain lists MTV, Microsoft and BMW as the new potential owners of a .me domain.

So let’s see what to expect:

Back to My Mac enables you to access home Mac wherever you are on the internet. Apple handles the routing, so you needn’t worry about IP addresses and firewalls. Providing the access to files, music, movies from your iPhone, your 16-GB device will get the size of your Mac’s hard drive.

Mac’s pricing $100 a year offers less than you may get from elsewhere. Storage space of 10 GB is shared among the services, while Gmail has almost 7 GB. The iDisk may be replaced by other online storage services like Flickr with unlimited storage but monthly upload bandwidth limitation is set.

iPhone has WiFi, and pretty soon it will have a 3-G radio. So all that cables can disappear in the nearest future. Microsoft Exchange server can already update devices over the air, and Apple is going to introduce that into the iPhone software.

Also we anticipate a peer-to-peer sharing with .me. Your friend can squirt you a whole playlist instantly, and then iPhone would grab the tracks from the iTunes Store. Or maybe you will read the barcode with the cam of your iPhone and instantly get it. Good enough to satisfy you?

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