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Tim O’Reilly on the iPad and the End of the PC Era: “Media and application syncing across iPhone and iPad is poorly thought out. MobileMe, which should be Apple’s gateway drug for lock-in to Apple services, is instead sold as an add-on to a small fraction of Apple’s customer base. If Apple wants to win, they need to understand the power of network effects in Internet services. They need to sacrifice revenue for reach, taking the opportunity of their early lead to tie users ever more closely to Apple services.”

(Via Daring Fireball.)

I agree w/Tim O’Reilly and John Gruber. Apple needs to *completely* revamp syncing + MobileMe, & make it free to all customers. It is not a significant income on the balance sheet, and would drive more then enough sales to make up for it. This is the iThings biggest weakness compared to Android, Google’s got the ‘cloud’ services out there for free, and syncing well.