Apple releases MobileMe iDisk for iPhone, iPod touch
Apple's free MobileMe iDisk application is now available on the App Store, allowing users to remotely access files saved online via the MobileMe service.
"You can already access your iDisk online at me.com," Apple's Web site reads. "And now you can access it right from your iPhone. Free for MobileMe members, the iDisk app for iPhone makes your important files accessible anytime, anywhere. View popular file types, such as Microsoft Office and iWork ?09 documents and presentations, PDFs, and more, in portrait or landscape. Share any file, big or small, with just a few taps. And access files in the Public folders of other MobileMe members just as easily."
Apple says that files recently accessed via the application can be viewed when there is no reception, such as traveling on an airplane.
iTunes advertises the following features for the iDisk app:
View files on your iDisk
Access Public folders
Easily share files from your iPhone
Quickly access recently viewed files
View iPhone supported file types -- including iWork, Office, PDF, Quicktime and more (files larger than 20MB may not be viewable).
It is available in English, French, German and Japanese, and requires a MobileMe subscription along with iPhone OS 3.0
"You can already access your iDisk online at me.com," Apple's Web site reads. "And now you can access it right from your iPhone. Free for MobileMe members, the iDisk app for iPhone makes your important files accessible anytime, anywhere. View popular file types, such as Microsoft Office and iWork ?09 documents and presentations, PDFs, and more, in portrait or landscape. Share any file, big or small, with just a few taps. And access files in the Public folders of other MobileMe members just as easily."
Apple says that files recently accessed via the application can be viewed when there is no reception, such as traveling on an airplane.
iTunes advertises the following features for the iDisk app:
View files on your iDisk
Access Public folders
Easily share files from your iPhone
Quickly access recently viewed files
View iPhone supported file types -- including iWork, Office, PDF, Quicktime and more (files larger than 20MB may not be viewable).
It is available in English, French, German and Japanese, and requires a MobileMe subscription along with iPhone OS 3.0
Comments
Not bad for free!
Why announce it if the link isn't' set up first?
Edit: This is probably just another one of those rude "It's released in the US store so it's released" moments. Hopefully it will show up in other North American countries (there are a few apparently) later today.
Doesn't show up under "new" or under a search for "iDisk."
Why announce it if the link isn't' set up first?
Edit: This is probably just another one of those rude "It's released in the US store so it's released" moments. Hopefully it will show up in other North American countries (there are a few apparently) later today.
Don't be so cynical! I'm in the UK and I have it!
Doesn't show up under "new" or under a search for "iDisk."
Why announce it if the link isn't' set up first?
Edit: This is probably just another one of those rude "It's released in the US store so it's released" moments. Hopefully it will show up in other North American countries (there are a few apparently) later today.
Try searching "MobileMe iDisk". Worked for me on the Canadian store.
Am I dumb?
Doesn't show up under "new" or under a search for "iDisk."
Why announce it if the link isn't' set up first?
Edit: This is probably just another one of those rude "It's released in the US store so it's released" moments. Hopefully it will show up in other North American countries (there are a few apparently) later today.
It's available in the UK store now...
Edit: This is probably just another one of those rude "It's released in the US store so it's released" moments. Hopefully it will show up in other North American countries (there are a few apparently) later today.
It isn't rude. Its a US website. About a US company. Following a US stock exchange in US time Zones.
It would be self centered of anybody else to expect Apple to hold of an announcement until it was ready worldwide.
Often many of your backwards podunk countries can't get their internets together or their anti-trust laws in line fast enough to accomodate Apple, and Apple waits for no one.
Have a latte and sit back, as I'm sure you're not from one of those podunk countries, so its probably only hours away for you...
It might not have been there when you searched, but it is there now...
What I really want is a find-my-iphone app so I can find my wife's iPhone when we're out somewhere and it falls out of her pocket. (Or more likely, one of the kids pulled it out of her purse and left it nearby but under something.)
So why don't you just call the phone? Come on man, little brain power maybe?
I had to type MobileMe iDisk and physically hit "Search". It wasnt showing up on the autocomplete. [US]
It's a hard life isn't it?!
From the standard mail app I can't make the email address into a contact and I can't cut and paste it into the iDisk app. So, first experiment failed unless I get a pen and paper out.
So why don't you just call the phone? Come on man, little brain power maybe?
Yeah... MobileMe's Find my iPhone feature isn't going to help you find your phone if it is only a few feet away, anyway. Usually, I'm lucky if it shows better than a half mile radius.
That being said, I would like an iPhone app so that I can see where my wife is when she doesn't answer her phone because she always puts it on silent at work and forgets to turn it back on. I don't need to know exactly where she is standing, but a general idea would be nice. For now, I just VNC to my desktop to do it. I tend to fill a lot of the iPhone holes by using my desktop via VNC.
Often many of your backwards podunk countries can't get their internets together...
Now there's a brilliant, open-minded comment if ever I heard one!
It isn't rude. Its a US website. About a US company. Following a US stock exchange in US time Zones.
It would be self centered of anybody else to expect Apple to hold of an announcement until it was ready worldwide.
Often many of your backwards podunk countries can't get their internets together or their anti-trust laws in line fast enough to accomodate Apple, and Apple waits for no one.
Have a latte and sit back, as I'm sure you're not from one of those podunk countries, so its probably only hours away for you...
Well agreed that my impatience probably came across as rude in and of itself, but you're dead wrong about what you say above. Apple is not a US company it's an international company. This website is based in the US but has readers from all over the world. Most of the top Mac forum sites like this one or MacRumours have about 50% of their readership from the UK actually. And I don't know WTF you're talking about with the stocks thing. How is that relevant at all?
You also have it completely backwards when you say "it would be self-centred (sic) ... " etc. It is self-centred by definition to expect all Apple's announcements and all Apple related websites to cater only to the US and to have information only related to the US. Expecting the reverse is not self-centred by definition.
Also, for someone talking about "rude" calling other countries "podunk" countries is a bit much.
For anyone interested, I was obviously just impatient, and it did arrive in my country but only after a while and only after repeated searches for the exact name of the file came up empty. Interestingly it arrived in the desktop version of the store five minutes before the online version.
Apologies for being an impatient person, but I still think it's standard procedure to put a product on a shelf (virtual or otherwise), and *then* announce that you have it.