Oh dear…Uncle Walt sings the death knell for Apple’s MobileMe. It’s a shame as the concept is great but as Apple has found, implementation of cloud services at scale may mean they need to take a few “Geniuses” off the bar and back to the datacentre. Meantime, Live Mesh which is in Tech Preview is pretty solid – but the Tech Preview moniker is there for a reason. This stuff is hard. It needs user testing – especially before you try to charge people for it.

Does this sound vitriolic? Well only in the same way it did when Apple announced this and people said they’d beaten Live Mesh to the punch :) Frankly they’re not the same but right now I prefer the Ozzie approach to cloud computing over the Jobs one.