Steve Job's promise MobileMe will get better, but will it?

Oh MobileMe, what a joke you have been. For those of  you who don't know, MobileMe is Apple's email, contacts. and calendar syncing service. Which sounds good, if you got 100 dollars to burn to each year. For the average user, that is way to expensive! Plus, Google offers email, contact and calendar sync, all for FREE. According to users, the google accounts are a little bit more reliable and have less issues then mobileme. Sounds weird huh, shouldn't it be the other way around?

MobileMe, Bad Name, Worse Logo

So why should someone pay for mobile me when you can go somewhere else like google? Well, there is that Idisk thingy which lets you share files between computers right? Well, DropBox beats you there to, and 2GB of file sharing is free. Plus DropBox is a more reliable service and has more features.So mobile me strikes out again. 

The only feature that was worth your while was the Find My Iphone, but now, that is free. So a big part of the mobileme packege is free.

The last thing I will comment on is Iweb, which Apple gave you a free web address to make a website with. Which I have to admit is pretty cool. But guess what, iweb wasn't updated in the last Ilife upgrade.So you'll be using a outdated service. And once again, compared with services like Web's and Wix, why pay 100 dollars for this?

Iweb, are you dead?

So as you can see, MobileMe is pretty much a complete rip off while you can use Gmail, DropBox and a web creating service, all for free. Steve Job's responded to a email not to long ago saying that MobileMe will get better in 2011.

But what does that mean? Are you talking about new features or just making it run faster. I mean come on, what else was he going to say? As a salesman, he is not going to tell people that it is going to stay the same.

But MobileMe, is either going to have to drop its expensive price tag, or add some real kicking features if it wants to complete with the rest of the web. It's sad that apple is behind this failure, because of their attention to detail and drive for new technology, I really hoped that MobileMe would not be a ripoff.