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Our Blogs Core Dump Wow: Apple's MobileMe going third party?!
Our Blogs Core Dump Wow: Apple's MobileMe going third party?! | Wow: Apple's MobileMe going third party?! |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 18 August 2008 | |
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The idea of hosting third-party apps on MobileMe was floated late last week by AppleInsider's Prince McLean. Just as Apple sells third-party software for the iPhone and iPod touch through the App Store, it could offer MobileMe add-ons that were created outside the company, in a continuation of the new third-party-app friendly policy. Why? Because through MobileMe, Apple already has a billing relationship with the customer. This make a lot of sense to me. As McLean points out, it would require the publication of the currently private APIs that Apple's using for MobileMe. What sort of applications might we see? McLean suggests a web version of Quicken as one possibility, along with an expenses app running on an iPhone, plus data synchronisation with the desktop version of the software. Make that QuickBooks, and I'd definitely be interested. What else might sit comfortably on MobileMe? See page two. |
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