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Let's try looking at this from a different direction. What's not to like for a consumer or family to have easy to use enterprise style features (web sync, push email, etc) for the "consumer computing experience"? I've been looking forward to MobileMe since announced, and now have my 4 Macs, iPhone, and iPod Touch sync'd together and working quite nicely. My phone is used more outside the home; the iPod touch, for example, on wireless, while wandering around the home, working in the garage or home office, or more "corporate desk" which has only a company laptop (but with quick notification now of any new emails on my .MAC account. I think in spite of the early teething pains this will be a success. And judging by companies like Axel Springer who are converting to all Mac, I'm sure this kind of functionality is welcome. Do I expect a firm like where I work to care? (using WIN2K and ancient versions of office apps), not hardly, though they have already looked into the iPhone, and with the revised 2.0 firmware capabilities may start supporting it, as it addresses the past issues and concerns. It's a German company, and Apple does have an unusual status over there, unlike, say, Asia. Those who care just take things into their own hands, and use the office laptop or PC to deal with email and necessary intranet client software. Funny, with this Snow Leapard update, I bet I could setup a Mac on our network without problems and run the most of the internal applications, too, as they're Java based. It's going to be interesting to see how this unfolds.