Home, Small Business & MobileMe

Just when I swore I would never ditch my Blackberry……I did…..well, kind of.

Life was going along good. I was routing all mobile data (work, small business and home) through my personal Blackberry Bold 9000 when our company also decided to add Blackberry Bold 9000’s into the corporate mix. Somehow I ended up with more phones than I knew what to do with. I wanted to keep the small business and the home calendars and contacts in a different ‘circulation pattern’ than my corporate data which is processed via the company Microsoft Exchange server.

I’m not complaining at all. These are good problems to have because it means I am able to stay busy. So after some thought and discussion we made the move to the ‘evil Apple’ empire. The wife and I each use the iPhone 3GS and have a MobileMe account. It is amazing how true the statement is, “Apple devices just work.” Both of our iPhones, our home PC and the cloud server form the perfect circle. The wife updates our cloud calendar from the desk at home throughout the day and every device in the loop is automatically updated.

The next logical step for us will be the MacBook Pro for travel, training, consulting and presentations and finally the iMac for the house. (not all at once, we don’t have it like that yet) I challenge those of you who have hesitated on using Apple products for small business…….give it a try….you may be pleasantly surprised.

More to follow in the near future as we experiment.

kml

2009