Yes Mobilme is a great thing! Especially if you have a Mac and an iPhone, because then you can use the full power of it, but nevertheless it is not 79,-€ worth it. I will tell you the reasons:
You can get everything with Google for free - Picture upload, online Storage or pushing your calendar wireless. Yesterday, I canceled my Tryout-Period of MobileMe and it took me about 30 mins to adjust my GMail and GCalendar to use it instead of MobileMe.
1)GMail
Has already IMAP - so you don't need the energy consuming Push-Service
2)GCalendar
is the intermediate we need to update your calendar wireless. First you import your iCal Calendars to your GCalendar by exporting them and importing them. Then you use the "Calaboration" to get your GCalendar on your iCal. Now you can delete your "only-on-your-mac" Calendar. You will not see any difference than before!
3)Exchange Server
Over the Microsoft Exchange Server you can add your Calendar and your Contacts of GMail to your iPhone. They also can be pushed!
So I decided to use only the Calendar for real time exchange and keep the contacts synced over iTunes, but when I do it, iTunes syncs the Contacts also with google. So you always have all your contacts up to date!
Of Course MobileMe is much easier and takes you only few seconds, but it costs you money and might be worthless in few months if you change your mobile for example!
so check out the wonderful Apps of Google!
c u soon!
You can get everything with Google for free - Picture upload, online Storage or pushing your calendar wireless. Yesterday, I canceled my Tryout-Period of MobileMe and it took me about 30 mins to adjust my GMail and GCalendar to use it instead of MobileMe.
1)GMail
Has already IMAP - so you don't need the energy consuming Push-Service
2)GCalendar
is the intermediate we need to update your calendar wireless. First you import your iCal Calendars to your GCalendar by exporting them and importing them. Then you use the "Calaboration" to get your GCalendar on your iCal. Now you can delete your "only-on-your-mac" Calendar. You will not see any difference than before!
3)Exchange Server
Over the Microsoft Exchange Server you can add your Calendar and your Contacts of GMail to your iPhone. They also can be pushed!
So I decided to use only the Calendar for real time exchange and keep the contacts synced over iTunes, but when I do it, iTunes syncs the Contacts also with google. So you always have all your contacts up to date!
Of Course MobileMe is much easier and takes you only few seconds, but it costs you money and might be worthless in few months if you change your mobile for example!
so check out the wonderful Apps of Google!
c u soon!
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