MobileMe’s Exchange Server-style push updates for contacts and calendar events on the iPhone is entirely new from the previous .Mac. Here’s how MobileMe relates to Exchange, how contacts and calendars work, and what’s still missing in Apple’s service related to calendar and contact management.

Inside MobileMe: Secrets of the Cloud and Mobile Push
Inside MobileMe: Mac and PC cloud sync and mobile push
Inside MobileMe: Apple’s Push vs Exchange, BlackBerry, Google
Inside MobileMe: iPhone Mail
Inside MobileMe: iPhone’s Exchange alternative for contacts and calendar
Inside MobileMe: Web 3 and Web Client-Server apps

Inside MobileMe: iPhone’s Exchange alternative for contacts and calendar
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Daniel Eran Dilger
MobileMe has attracted more vulture critics than Apple TV, the last product Apple launched without immediately earning billions of dollars from it. Joining the frothing dogpile of critics who can’t get in enough edgewise on the bumpy rollout of MobileMe is none other than Jean-Louis Gassée. Who? Oh yes, him.
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