30.05.2008, 21:59
Published by Edward Kirk on May 30, 2008 - 11:47am. News
![[Bild: mobileme.png]](http://www.iphonealley.com/images/storyimages/may08/mobileme.png)
New information has been found in the code of several applications after the Mac OS 10.5.3 Leopard software update
that shows that Apple will most likely be changing the brand name of their .Mac syncing service. There has been speculation that Apple
would be updating .Mac at some point this year to offer syncing features for the iPhone, but some doubted this would go through because of .Mac's exclusivity to the Mac computer line and brand name. Now evidence supports that they are resolving at least one of those issues.
It all started last week when Russian Apple website Deep Apple found some unusual changes in the "Localizable.strings" resource
in Mac OS 10.5.3. In every location of the file that mentioned the service's name, the name .Mac
had been replaced with a placeholder for a new name:
Soon after, the website Blogging Robots found that the .Mac name had been replaced with the same placeholders in Safari and Mail.
They also noted that the applications were retrieving the .Mac name from a CoreServices system file
that could easily be altered to place the new name in the applications.
![[Bild: mobileme1.png]](http://www.iphonealley.com/images/storyimages/may08/mobileme1.png)
Meanwhile, Apple has filed for the trademark of "Mobile Me" under four categories, the most interesting being:
"Telecommunication services; electronic transmission and retrieval of data, images, audio, video and documents, including text, cards, letters, messages, mail, animations, and electronic mail, over local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular and satellite networks; electronic transmission of computer software over local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular, and satellite networks; electronic mail services; facsimile transmission; web site portal services; providing access to databases and local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular, and satellite networks; internet service provider services; message transmission services, namely, electronic transmission of messages; telecommunication services for the dissemination of information by mobile telephone, namely the transmission of data to mobile telephones; mobile telephone communication services."
At the same time, the MobileMe.com domain name has been parked by Apple's traditional domain registrar, and more information was found
via Blogging Robots in the iPhone SDK that showed the Mobile Me name:
![[Bild: mobileme2.png]](http://www.iphonealley.com/images/storyimages/may08/mobileme2.png)
![[Bild: mobileme3.png]](http://www.iphonealley.com/images/storyimages/may08/mobileme3.png)
[ via iPhone Alley and Apple Insider ]
New information has been found in the code of several applications after the Mac OS 10.5.3 Leopard software update
that shows that Apple will most likely be changing the brand name of their .Mac syncing service. There has been speculation that Apple
would be updating .Mac at some point this year to offer syncing features for the iPhone, but some doubted this would go through because of .Mac's exclusivity to the Mac computer line and brand name. Now evidence supports that they are resolving at least one of those issues.
It all started last week when Russian Apple website Deep Apple found some unusual changes in the "Localizable.strings" resource
in Mac OS 10.5.3. In every location of the file that mentioned the service's name, the name .Mac
had been replaced with a placeholder for a new name:
Code:
/* Label of the .Mac button in iCal’s General preferences. %@ is the new name of Apple’s online service (was .Mac) (remove -XX02) */Soon after, the website Blogging Robots found that the .Mac name had been replaced with the same placeholders in Safari and Mail.
They also noted that the applications were retrieving the .Mac name from a CoreServices system file
that could easily be altered to place the new name in the applications.
Code:
/* Title of .Mac alert sheet, with .Mac brand name subsituted */?“You need a %@ account that has syncing enabled” =
“You need a %@ account that has syncing enabled”;
/* Title of button used to open the .Mac system preference pane. */?“AOS_SYNC_BUTTON_FORMAT” = “%@…”;
/* Descriptive text for .Mac Sync. */?“AOS_SYNC_FORMAT” = “Use %@ to synchronize Accounts, Rules, Notes, Signatures, and Smart Mailboxes.”;Meanwhile, Apple has filed for the trademark of "Mobile Me" under four categories, the most interesting being:
"Telecommunication services; electronic transmission and retrieval of data, images, audio, video and documents, including text, cards, letters, messages, mail, animations, and electronic mail, over local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular and satellite networks; electronic transmission of computer software over local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular, and satellite networks; electronic mail services; facsimile transmission; web site portal services; providing access to databases and local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular, and satellite networks; internet service provider services; message transmission services, namely, electronic transmission of messages; telecommunication services for the dissemination of information by mobile telephone, namely the transmission of data to mobile telephones; mobile telephone communication services."
At the same time, the MobileMe.com domain name has been parked by Apple's traditional domain registrar, and more information was found
via Blogging Robots in the iPhone SDK that showed the Mobile Me name:
[ via iPhone Alley and Apple Insider ]
ie IT´s unserer Redaktion haben es geschafft in der Beta Version der OS 10.5.3 (9D32) eine kleine Sensation zu finden. Diese kleine Sensation versteckte sich im File englischer localizable.strings, hinterlegt in den Tiefen ./Contents/Resources/Englisch.Iproj. BEACHTET DAS BILD!![[Bild: 2543873687_436ca0da86_o.jpg]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2543873687_436ca0da86_o.jpg)