The Angry Drunk

I’ve been fol­low­ing var­i­ous forum and blog posts regard­ing the Apple MobileMe announce­ment; and I see a trend that’s begin­ning to annoy me. Inevitably, at some point some­one will make a com­ment along the lines of, “I don’t see why any­one would bother with this when there’s Google Mail, Calendar, etc.” Without going into an analy­sis of the MobileMe ser­vice itself (hard to do when it doesn’t exist yet), I am con­stantly annoyed by this sort of short-sighted think­ing. Heaven for­bid that Apple, or any­one for that mat­ter, dare to attempt to com­pete with the mighty Google.

I hate to break it to the Googletards, but there is more to the inter­net and com­put­ing that Google. Some of us have com­pelling rea­sons for want­ing a com­pet­ing ser­vice. Here’s just a sin­gle one that is a fac­tor for me. Seamless desk­top and remote inte­gra­tion. I’ve been dying for a seam­less way to inte­grate my desk­top work­flow (iCal, Mail, iLife) with both the web, and with the Windows machines that I have to use at work. And, before I get a slew of com­ments point­ing out how to inte­grate with Google’s ser­vices, I know about them; I even am cur­rently using some

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