Apple has announced iBooks for iPhone, and while I don’t think I’me ever going to read a book on my iPhone, we’re fine with it. Thing is, Apple also announced they’re going to bring wireless syncing between devices running iBooks (iPad and iPhone), allowing you to read something at home on your iPad, go outside, fire up iBooks on your iPhone and start reading again back from where you were on the first device.
It sounds cool, but how does it actually work? First, I thought of MobileMe, constantly pushing reading status to the cloud and syncing back to our devices as we fire up iBooks again. But then again, this would require a 24/7 active internet connection, which is not always possible on something like the wifi only iPad. Also, it would require iBooks and MobileMe to really push statuses every single second, and that might be a problem for data usage.
So what’s gonna happen? I fear we’re headed towards a local wifi system again, but I’m betting on MobileMe. I think it can be the perfect platform for this, and Apple has the chance to finally find a good usage for it. I guess we’ll know more about the whole MobileMe in a few weeks.
