overhauled .Mac serveice gets pushy -- and that's good thing.
By Jeff Carlson
July 25, 2008 (MacWorld)
Synchronization is hard. It may sound simple: copy personal
information, such as contacts and events, between computers and keep
them all up to date. But over the years, we've seen sync programs that
don't quite work. I not-so-fondly remember manually deleting hundreds
of duplicate contacts from my Palm handheld years ago, and even now, I
run into records in which separate companies and individuals were long
ago squished together into the same contact.
Apple Inc. has thrown resources at this problem over time, and the
latest incarnation, MobileMe, adds the capability to synchronize some
data to devices and other Macs lickety-split, the way Microsoft's
Exchange Server performs in the corporate world. In fa
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The numbers are an indication that Apple may be feeling the competitive
pressure of Windows PC vendors, such as HP and Dell, which have cut
prices at much larger percentages.
