Apple Quietly Pushes Improvements to MobileMe

Apple has pushed an update to its MobileMe web service without notifying subscribers of the new changes. The last modified support article (HT3182) is titled “late-September 2008 MobileMe update” and last modified on October 29 without indication when it was originally published.

The updates improve localization for MobileMe web applications and membername suggestions when attempting to sign up for a membername that is already taken. Other improvements affect MobileMe Mail, MobileMe Account, MobileMe Calendar, MobileMe Contacts and MobileMe Gallery.

“Apple is always working to improve MobileMe. Since MobileMe is primarily a server-side, or ‘cloud’-based, service, the MobileMe team can make improvements and push updates to MobileMe without any action being required of MobileMe customers,” says the article. “Since server-side updates are a bit more innocuous than a standard software update to Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, it’s easy not to notice that updates are occurring.  Usually the only hint of these updates is that things just ‘work better.