Why buy dropbox when it is cheaper and easier to just fix some of the problems with the existing MobileMe service? Stealing a page from dropbox and similar services, Apple should just make a basic MobileMe account free and let you buy additional services as needed. The service is already integrated into the desktop OS, it is partially integrated into the iPhone OS, and if they just added some polish and back-end resources they would have a decent start towards cutting off Google encroachment into their platform.

Interesting comment because I've read that one of Apple's visions with their mobile devices is to get rid of the traditional hierarchical filesystem.

Oh really? I had not heard that, I'm going to have to google around for some articles on this, I'm interested to read up on it. Thanks for the heads up!

I was referring to what I read here: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/29/apple_reinvent... but let me know what you think.

That is not how filesharing is implemented on the iPad. I built an iPad app based on the initial (beta SDK) description & I basically gave up on using the file sharing feature once I saw how incredibly incompetent the current implementation is. Apple really dropped the ball here.

Awesome! Having the iPad show up as a share is great and definitely a step in the right direction. Having all files available to all your devices as the default (and with browser synch) is the holy grail imho.