iDisk App for iPhone Release Imminent?
According to a tech note, which recently appeared then disappeared from Apple's website (but can be seen at TUAW), our wait for the iDisk iPhone app may soon be over.
Surely you remember a little iDisk app that Apple promised to all of it's MobileMe customers back around WWDC 2009? The biggest feature, at least to us here at TiPb, being file sharing. Need to email a large file that is stored on your iDisk but you are away from your computer? No problem, just send it to whomever you'd like via iDisk for iPhone. Not too shabby.
Granted the above linked note does not mention anything in the way of functionality or release date, it is a sign that this app should appear in the very near future. Or we all can at least hope that is the case.
How many of you MobileMe customers out there have been craving to get your hands on this one?
[Via TUAW]
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Not me
I have! I find it so bizarre that apple announced it with the release date being so far away / undetermined.
Nor me. I believe mobileme is so over priced, google apps has lot more features. Apple really should open its platform more to 3rd party apps. Attaching files to an email from the iphone is the demand of time, that too without mobileme.
I do not have mobile me as me and my wife do not want to pat $200/year.
I'm sure there will be free or less fee alternatives to come. DroBox is a good alternative for sending large files with links. An app is being created and should be released soo .
I still find it absurd that I either have to pay for a separate Air Sharing app or (would in the future) have to subscribe to MobileMe for $100/year just to have some way to get my files onto my phone.
The ability to sync files during a direct connection (i.e., the function I believe Air Sharing does) should have always been a free built-in feature.
I already have MobileMe, so this i consider is a big upgrade to the whole package.
Can't wait till this finally comes out :P
Possible ability to add to MobileMe hosted blogs ?
This would be a great app if we could:
1) Edit iWork docs
2) Publish items to iWeb websites from the app or if there were a companion iWeb mobile app.
When those two things happen, then MobileMe will truly be mobile!
You can actually use your iPhone/iPod Touch as a USB hard drive if you just want to move files around.
So, using Air Sharing is useful if you want to ACCESS documents on the phone, and presumably the iDisk app will be the same thing except it lets you access your iDisk, which isn't the same thing as Air Sharing.
Where the hell is the damn Meebo app?
I'd love to be able to mail a copy of my resume from my iPhone. I can fwd a copy and spend several minutes with the backspace button deleting previous fwd text. I am not interested in paying $100 a year to do this.
iFile § iPhoneBrowser[BOTH Free] wrk jus FINE for me…NO need for iDisk cuz Im more than sure u can’t adjust any [hidden] files on “iDisk”…
I need this immediately. Seriously.
I. Can't. Wait.
And Steven H and others who gripe about MobileMe's cost either don't realize how valuable a service it is (i.e., the various features MobileMe offers) or simply don't need it.
But the cost? You can't afford 27 cents a day?
Should be great!
Sounds like a superb business tool!
The devil us going to be in the detail with this. If I could save email attachments to my idisc I'd be a happy man...
Or they could just give us mobile finder, but even I know that'll never happen.
I want this so bad! It's completely crazy I had do buy an app to get access to my iDisk on the go! MobileMe is awesome and well worth the money. I'm about to upgrade to the family plan.
How anti-climatic. I've been waiting for this app for ages and I think that we're being strung along by these fools. Between AT&Ts service and Apple's blunders, it's getting old. I feel like an idiot for paying all these years for mac.com/mobile me. Apple are you listening? If you are not careful, people will turn on you like we are turning on AT&T.
What DannyBoy said. 6 years here...
MobileMe is a little rough at 99/yr but I was able to find it a 3rd party site MacPro.com or some such) for just under $60. It definitely feels worth it at that price .... especially if you use a mac instead of PC ... lots of useful integration with the iApps. I'm dying for an official iDisk app.
Can wait but would appreciate it...
Couldnt care less. Not while iDisk from the desktop is so painfully slow.
For the record though, I do like mobile me and all it provides, just not iDisk.
I have definitely been waiting for this. I use my iDisk to store files and already use the "share" feature on my Mac so people can download my files from my iDisk at their convenience. Being able to do this from anywhere via my iPhone would be an awesome thing. I hope Apple releases this soon.
Pro: i think only for school purpose and to be watched i fdont trust a person