Friday, July 20, 2007

iPhone and dotMac

One thing that is bothering me about my new iPhone is that it does not have any real interconnection with my .mac account. Given that I am spending almost $100 per year for a really basic suite of services, I would expect them to interact with all of my Apple devices. I am hoping that this will change in the very near future. Namely, I would like the ability to sync my contact and calendar information with .Mac via the EDGE or Wi-Fi connections. I also want to have my published .Mac calendars update automatically when they receive changes synced from the iPhone over the air. Finally, I would appreciate access (even if just read-only access) to the files on my iDisk. I should be able to look at word, excel, pdf, images, and txt files on the phone. Right now, I can get to my iDisk using Safari, but I cannot open any files. All I can see is a list of files. I would also love the ability to easily save or download files to my iDisk. This would protect the integrity of the phone and its storage, while allowing me two-way access to files.

I think it would boost .Mac membership in general if these services were integrated and would be a smart move for Apple in general. Let's see what happens.

1 comment:

House said...

I concur wholeheartedly!

Ryan House