MobileMe renewal for $40: good deal, or wait?

[thewhitehart]

apple has a million mobile me subscribers who pay ~$99 per year. no way they will make the service free. parts of it maybe but there will always be a premium part that will cost money. i ope with the data center they get the service to actually work reliably and fast. the $40 is a very good price.........

I agree. Parts of it should be charged for, on a tier based system. But the way cloud computing is advancing, Apple is far, far behind its competitors. iOS products have to be more integrated with the cloud to compete with Android. I think bookmark, contact, and calendar syncing is the next to go free. Maybe even some iDisk storage space. I am still hoping for a paid version with tiered pricing based on storage.

The massive data center is a definite sign of some sort of cloud offering beyond what MobileMe currently does. Jobs even gave a hint in one of his one liner emails.

 

[bigrash]

I should have bought this from amazon when I saw it for $41 when the thread was posted. The price is up to $56 now.

 

[Weaselboy]

Too bad the deal is gone. I do see some for $49.99 with free shipping on eBay.

 

[Squadleader]

Too bad the deal is gone. I do see some for $49.99 with free shipping on eBay.

I missed out on it to, back up to 64 bucks....

 

[jent]

So Apple sells MobileMe for $69 if bundled with a Mac, iPhone, or iPad. My question is, how can anyone afford to sell it under that price point? Does Apple sell MobileMe boxes wholesale for much under that, do resellers just take a hit hoping it'll be a loss leader for other products, or are they stolen serials?

 

[Weaselboy]

I don't think they are stolen. I doubt Amazon.com would sell stolen products. There may just be a large markup direct from Apple.