When I heard this rumor, I was quite hesitant to publish it. Mobile Me is perhaps the only service from Apple that I would most like to be free of its rare paid services. According to rumors in MacDaily News, Apple plans to make its online services free in the near future, which started as iTools in 2000, changed to .Mac in 2002, and finally named MobileMe in 2008.
According to rumors, while the server center in North Carolina, which Apple rented a while ago, is expected to be operational in order to make MobileMe a free service, the news claims that the date when the service will be free is “closer than tomorrow”. If you haven’t tried it yet, I recommend you to take advantage of the 2-month free trial period.
MobileMe, which allows synchronization with Mac, PC and iPhone OS without platform problems, costs 99 dollars per year. In return, it includes Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Photo Gallery, 20GB iDisk, Find My iPhone services. If this latest development does not remain as a claim, Apple and Google will face each other in one more area. In contrast to Apple’s relatively expensive service, Google offers its service, which is similar but not as useful as Mobile Me, free of charge to every user.