Jim Dairymple of The Loop is giving his thoughts on the rumored MobileMe revamp that seems to be right around the corner. Specifically, Dairymple believes that the new MobileMe will not be a “cloud-based” service in the traditional sense, but instead will be the “brains” of a service that user’s an individual’s own home computer for hosting the the content.
Here’s the excerpt:
Is Apple going to give us all 100GB of cloud storage to host our music, backups and sync data? That seems a bit much to me. Here’s what I think will happen with Apple’s new MobileMe service.
Instead of trying to provide everyone with cloud storage, I believe Apple will use MobileMe as the brain of the cloud service. The actual storage will be on our individual machines. In effect, in the cloud.
The service would stream audio and video of course, but would likely also stream user documents. All of this would be accompanied with an automatic syncing system that would keep all files across all devices in sync.
Mr. Dairymple does put a damper on the excitement regarding the service might become free (as in beer) when the revamp lands. That is, he suggests that some features will indeed become free, while others will remain paid services.
This sounds an awful lot like the wireless syncing we’ve all wanted for iPods and iPhones for some time. But will it be something more? As in syncing for all of your Apple products? And what happens if your machine you want to sync content from is powered down or asleep? Are you just SOL?
This will be a good stop-gap if it does come to fruition, but it certainty isn’t the true “iTunes in the cloud” we’d all like to see.
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