High five to the team at Mobile Me, the new Calendar beta is now live. You guys are officially kicking iCal's ass.
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First Look: MobileMe Mail beta
For many of us, e-mail is the most prominent facet of our Internet lives. As such, how we interact with our e-mail is important: it can mean saving us valuable time—and that time adds up. Apple announced last week that it’s revamping its MobileMe Webmail interface and letting subscribers test out the new version. Now that it’s been unleashed upon users, we can get a better look at what Apple’s added.
Overall, the beta version clearly signifies a major shift in design: instead of an interface based on Apple’s Mail client for Mac OS X we get one that’s styled after the iPhone and iPad Mail apps. For example, the new menu-bar buttons, which were previously little capsules that evoked the desktop client, now use the same simple icons as the iPad version of Mail.
MobileMe so often seems like one of Apple’s forgotten products that any movement or improvement is welcome. On the whole, the beta version of the Webmail client is promising, and—if nothing else—makes us eagerly anticipate similar enhancements to the rest of the MobileMe Web tools.
In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. Who knows how it will perform?
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