MobileMe push mail now active

MobileMe's push mail is now active and running. Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz has
the service working with his iPhone running the iPhone 2.0 software, and
is running perfectly. He is now able to get email pushed to his iPhone
in real time, both over Wi-Fi and the cell network.

He was even able to get it to work perfectly while using a SIM from an
unsupported carrier (Vodafone Spain) while in roaming and it worked just
fine. With all of this in place, it will likely be very difficult for
RIM and the Blackberry to keep up, given that Push email has been one of
their main selling points for quite some time.

iPhone News wrote:
> MobileMe's push mail is now active and running.
>With all of this in place, it will likely be very
> difficult for RIM and the Blackberry to keep up, given that Push
> email has been one of their main selling points for quite some time.
>
Please. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that MobileMe is
currently $100 per year (not $100 for a one-time purchase, but per year).
Over $8.00 a month additional expense to the user to achieve about the same
thing that the Blackberry does for FREE. How do you figure that RIM has to
keep up?

iPhone News <invalid@nospam.net> wrote in news:invalid-
F5CDE3.22352310072008@news.giganews.com:

> RIM and the Blackberry to keep up, given that Push email has been one of
> their main selling points for quite some time.
>
>

RESEARCH IN MOTION
(NasdaqGS: RIMM)

After Hours: 117.40 Up 0.27 (0.23%)7:59PM ET

Investors don't seem to be fleeing in droves at $US117.40/share....

We'll watch the numbers, carefully, tomorrow afternoon....

"Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in
news:4876cfb8$0$11600$607ed4bc@cv.net:

> iPhone News wrote:
>> MobileMe's push mail is now active and running.
>>With all of this in place, it will likely be very
>> difficult for RIM and the Blackberry to keep up, given that Push
>> email has been one of their main selling points for quite some time.
>>
> Please. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that MobileMe
> is currently $100 per year (not $100 for a one-time purchase, but per
> year). Over $8.00 a month additional expense to the user to achieve
> about the same thing that the Blackberry does for FREE. How do you
> figure that RIM has to keep up?
>
>
>
>

You would be correct. $100/year, every year, ad nauseum.

FruitFones charge for lots of things other devices do for free....like run
useful apps!

At 10 Jul 2008 22:35:23 -0400 iPhone News wrote:

> With all of this in place, it will likely be very difficult for
> RIM and the Blackberry to keep up, given that Push email has been one of
> their main selling points for quite some time.


And once again, you completely misunderstand the Enterprise market. Push e-
mail has been available outside of the Blackberry platform for quite some
time- WinMobile, Symbian, and even dumbphones have had push for years.

The allure of Blackberry for the Enterprise is BES and the reputation for
security it has. "MobileMe," or even EAS, (Exchange over Activesync) isn't
going to change that.

Besides, even assuming the business e-mail features of the iPhone were good
enough for the Enterprise, the biggest stumbling block against mass
adoption by business is their exclusivity with AT&T. I've got nothing
against AT&T personally, (I was a happy Cingular customer for over a
decade,) but businesses tend to choose provider first, based on coverage,
features, and price, and device second. EVERY national carrier offers
Blackberry. ONE offers iPhone.

Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> RESEARCH IN MOTION
> (NasdaqGS: RIMM)
>
> After Hours: 117.40 Up 0.27 (0.23%)7:59PM ET
>
> Investors don't seem to be fleeing in droves at $US117.40/share....
>
> We'll watch the numbers, carefully, tomorrow afternoon....

oh larry, what are we going to do with you?

RIMM has dropped like a rock since the iPhone 2.0 was announced about 1
month ago.

RIMM has gone from 135 to 117... a drop of about 15.5%


and you posted "after hours" data, but in today's regular trading, RIMM
was down 0.41

while Apple was up, 2.38, and up another 1.11 in AH.

-

"Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote:

> Please. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that MobileMe is
> currently $100 per year (not $100 for a one-time purchase, but per year).
> Over $8.00 a month additional expense to the user to achieve about the same
> thing that the Blackberry does for FREE. How do you figure that RIM has to
> keep up?

MobileMe is around $75-$80 a year (ongoing) $99 is just the list price.

http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/n40073?src=g

Oxford <apony@pasture.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:apony-F6CB55.22175210072008@news.qwest.net:

> "Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote:
>
>> Please. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that
>> MobileMe is currently $100 per year (not $100 for a one-time
>> purchase, but per year). Over $8.00 a month additional expense to the
>> user to achieve about the same thing that the Blackberry does for
>> FREE. How do you figure that RIM has to keep up?
>
> MobileMe is around $75-$80 a year (ongoing) $99 is just the list
> price.
>
> http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/n40073?src=g
>

Answer the question posed, Oxtard. RIM offers the same functionality for
free? How are they 'catching up'?

And in the past month it's down 10.00 a share.

What did the iPhone 2.0 do for apple to let there stock drop 10.00 a share
in the past month ?

"Oxford" <apony@pasture.com> wrote in message
news:apony-A65F48.22142510072008@news.qwest.net...
> Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>
>> RESEARCH IN MOTION
>> (NasdaqGS: RIMM)
>>
>> After Hours: 117.40 Up 0.27 (0.23%)7:59PM ET
>>
>> Investors don't seem to be fleeing in droves at $US117.40/share....
>>
>> We'll watch the numbers, carefully, tomorrow afternoon....
>
> oh larry, what are we going to do with you?
>
> RIMM has dropped like a rock since the iPhone 2.0 was announced about 1
> month ago.
>
> RIMM has gone from 135 to 117... a drop of about 15.5%
>
>
> and you posted "after hours" data, but in today's regular trading, RIMM
> was down 0.41
>
> while Apple was up, 2.38, and up another 1.11 in AH.
>
> -

The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote:

> >> Please. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that
> >> MobileMe is currently $100 per year (not $100 for a one-time
> >> purchase, but per year). Over $8.00 a month additional expense to the
> >> user to achieve about the same thing that the Blackberry does for
> >> FREE. How do you figure that RIM has to keep up?
> >
> > MobileMe is around $75-$80 a year (ongoing) $99 is just the list
> > price.
> >
> > http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/n40073?src=g
> >
>
> Answer the question posed, Oxtard. RIM offers the same functionality for
> free? How are they 'catching up'?

RIM doesn't offer anything even close to .Mac or now called "MoblieMe".

MobileMe allows you to build and host custom websites via iWeb, it
allows you to have a remote Hard Drive mount on any PC or Mac, it ties
into your photo database with iPhoto, allows you to publish streaming
movies, it's a push email service of course, allows you to see and work
with your remote machines in realtime, manages / syncs all passwords on
all apps on all of your machines. syncs dashboard and bookmarks across
all machines. publish private and public Calendars, share address books
of course, on and on and on... do you even own a Mac? Guess not...

What RIM does is just a small subset of .Mac or MobileMe.

If you just want what RIM does, then sure, there are plenty of free
services for that. but nobody offers internet services as sophisticated
as MobleMe.

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/mac.html