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Jul
2008
Closer to Shutting Out MobileMeJul
2008
With the recent announcement of Google Calendar supporting CalDAV, I think we're getting closer and closer to replacing MobileMe. Why is this good? From some recent reports, I don't think I can trust MobileMe with my data. Plus, it's an overall fail-fest. Here are some current replacements of MobileMe's features:
- Email: Google IMAP baby! I've been using this to "sync" email on all my machines and devices and it works beautifully.
- iDisk: Mozy, S3, any online storage will do really. Most have clients to have it show up as a drive just as the iDisk would.
- Photos: Not even going to explain this one. Do we really need another online photo sharing service?
- Calendar & Contacts: Ok, don't actually have a replacement for this yet, namely for the iPhone, but it's getting harder to justify buying MobileMe just for this purpose, so we need something. gCal's CalDAV is getting us closer with it's seamless syncing and integration with iCal, we just need CalDAV support on the iPhone, which I'm sure Apple has no interest in implementing because as I said, it's getting easier and easier to shut out MobileMe.
Comments (1)
Jason++ on August 24, 2008 1:23 PMI use the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird, and have it set up to pull my calendars from files on my filebox (accessing via DAV of course). As soon as I make a change, it writes it to dav, and shows up on every computer I have it configured on.