MobileMe, a prophecy?

Out of the many reactions to Apple’s recent keynote two blog posts in particular reflected my initial thoughts to the MobileMe announcement very precisely.

Lonelysandwich spends great attention to the possible reasons behind the new name “MobileMe” and contrasts it to Apple’s initial title for its webservices “iTools”. There is also a - long stretched but nevertheless appealing - thesis that the omission of the last title “.mac” is symbolic for the creation of a platform-agnostic web OS.

This is also the subject of RoughlyDrafted’s thorough article that discusses Apple’s choice for the JS framework SproutCore in implementing MobileMe. Bottomline is that the establishment of a web with open standards is both Apple’s and Google’s only chance to survive in the future. The “No flash on iPhone” situation shows clearly why Apple’s web experience will never depend on proprietary plugin technology.

Update: Counternotions thoughtfully summarizes possible reasons for the missing flash on iPhone and proclaims the “new UI wars”.