The pros and cons of me dot com

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Can Apple justify charging Mac owners £59 a month for an email address and some syncing shenanigans? The company’s suite of online services made headlines last year when it changed its name from .Mac to MobileMe. Not because anyone cared what it was called, but because the revamp went so badly that the Internet resounded for months with the caterwauls of dissatisfied users. To cut a long story short, MobileMe is now fixed and does all the things it was supposed to – syncing your email, contacts and calendars between devices; hosting websites; storing and transferring files, and creating online photo galleries – without falling over. Which is nice. But is that enough for the asking price?

Read the full article in MacFormat issue 212, on sale now.

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