Steve Jobs promised good things coming for MobleMe, competition to Google's suite of webapps and cloud services in an e-mail to a customer.
That is one thing that I am waiting for anxiously from Apple. Currently, subscribers pay $99 a year to get services that we can already get for free from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
What makes MobileMe special is that it is highly integrated into the Mac and iOS devices. Still, is that worth paying $99 more?
More and more, I'm doubting it. I'm running my own personal website and Greenjava using the MobileMe hosting but Apple has not upgraded the iWeb app in the last iLife update so I'm finding what is there a bit long in the tooth.
Still, I want to wait and see if there is anything to MobileMe that Apple can bring to the service that is worth paying for.
There is worth that many components like mail will be free. And I think that is something that even non-Apple product users might be interested in even if you're running Android or WP7 devices (I don't know why but you can).
And besides, should Apple make a more compelling MobileMe or opening up some of the current services for free, it's a good thing as it'll increase competition with Google and Microsoft.
The second product I'm waiting to hear from Apple about is iWork. This is Apple suite of productivity apps – Pages (work processor, page layout), Numbers (spreadsheet), Keynote (presentation). The last update from Apple was more than a year ago, and while it was pretty sweet but it's time to do another one.
I'm hoping Apple will add features in Pages regarding ebooks and publishing to the iBooksstore. Maybe even allow Website creation as well. And obviously, the iwork.com needs to be updated as well.
Right now, it's already February and we have not see anything yet. Come on, Apple. What's the holdup?
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