Apple's services show how the company has changed since its MobileMe farceYou do remember MobileMe, right?
Apple today shared details on how its services fared during 2020 and it makes for interesting reading. You can check out the full story yourself, but the gist is simple – people are buying, downloading, and streaming more and more. If there was any doubt that Apple is a services company going into 2021, that doubt should now be dead and buried. But the thought of Apple, the company behind MobileMe, being so strong in services is an alien concept to those of us who remember that debacle.
MobileMe was, ultimately, an unmitigated failure. Things were so bad that Steve Jobs reportedly went on something of a tirade, reprimanding those in charge. Eddy Cue was put in charge and MobileMe was gone soon after. iCloud replaced it and despite its foibles, has been a much better service from top to bottom.
Just how bad was MobileMe? Steve Jobs really didn't like it, emailing the entire Apple staff to say so. When MobileMe went live, nothing worked. To call th...
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Apple's services show how the company has changed since its MobileMe farce
