.Mac Changing It’s Name To “Mobile Me”?
‘Mobile Me’ the new name of .Mac? – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Huh? What? No, this can’t be right. In the lastest version of the iPhone Software, CodingRobots.com and Deep Apple found a string with the term “Mobile Me”. With the evidence that Apple had trademarked this name back in 2006, it’s irrefutable that this will be the new name for Apple’s .Mac Service. I’m thinking to myself, “BULLSHIT”. I don’t know about you but that sounds like an aweful name of a service and the name to me doesn’t decribe what .Mac is. Not that it’s much of anything right now. So I went a little deeper into the trademark filing:
AppleInsider | Apple applies for “Mobile Me” trademark
Quoth:
“Telecommunication services; electronic transmission and retrieval of data, images, audio, video and documents, including text, cards, letters, messages, mail, animations, and electronic mail, over local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular and satellite networks; electronic transmission of computer software over local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular, and satellite networks; electronic mail services; facsimile transmission; web site portal services; providing access to databases and local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular, and satellite networks; internet service provider services; message transmission services, namely, electronic transmission of messages; telecommunication services for the dissemination of information by mobile telephone, namely the transmission of data to mobile telephones; mobile telephone communication services.”
Hm, this looks interesting. This look to be an expanded .Mac. Which would be cool, but “Mobile Me”? Honestly, this name is one of the worst names I’ve ever seen and it implies a service that is mobile. I’m thinking more like mobile phone mobile. .Mac to me is more of a web based service that start getting you and the operating system to the cloud. Andy Ihnatko speculated about the perfect .Mac service. It would essentially let you log into any Mac and it would pull down all your settings and desktop. It would be exactly like using your Mac at home, except, maybe some of your programs aren’t available but the experience would be relatively the same. Is this what Mobile Me is suppose to be about?
If Apple is going to go with the Mobile Me branding, I suggest this: Mobile Me is the iPhone/iPod Touch interface to .Mac. The Mobile Me service will allow .Mac users to access files on there iDisk and even give a version of remote access to their Macs, a la Back To My Mac. It would allow you to control your iTunes or Apple TV from the device. Like you select the media you want to play then iTunes or your Apple TV immediately starts playing it. I’m sure there are other things you can do with this, but I think the Mobile Me should just be an interface into .Mac and not a renamed .Mac.
Mobile Me sounds like “Mini Me” to me, every single time I say it out loud. I just hear it over and over in my head “I shall call him Mini Me.” LAWL. Maybe they should get a little person who looks like Steve Jobs to sell the product. And we called him “Mobile Me.”
And as far names go, Microsoft Mesh is no better. But I agree, Mobile Me is just a LAME name. Mobile Mac, though, has a lot of potential.