MobileMe not so pushy

Many commenters and bloggers hither and yon have noticed that MobileMe lacks “true push” capabilities, even though Apple uses the “push” buzzword extensively to describe MobileMe services.

A commenter in a MacRumors thread about the subject took screenshots from Apple’s site, showing they had removed the phrase “Push happens automatically, instantly, and continuously.” In its place, Apple clarifies that changes from the iPhone and web apps are updated instantly on connected computers, but not vice versa.

Apple plus notes in a

Knowledge Base article that changes “made on your computer will be synced to the MobileMe ‘cloud’ once every 15 minutes (or every hour in Mac OS X 10.4.11).”

That, to me, doesn’t sound like “push,” it sounds like “sync.” The term “push” still applies, however, to me.com mail, as that shows up immediately (in my experience, at least.) Calendars and contacts, though, not so much, apparently.

[Via BetaNews.]

[Source] Robert Palmer