What may have passed some people by this week was the announcement of the next version of Mac OS X Server. Snow Leopard Server will notably deliver “push notifications” of calendar meetings, and details relaying “push notifications” in some form to outside the firewall as well.
Extrapolation: We can expect to be able to build or use the relevant parts of MobileMe’s push support in iPhone, iPod touch and Mac OS X without using MobileMe. Or, I guess: “Exchange for the rest of us” for the rest of us. Great news.
If push support is provided as part of Apple’s Darwin Calendar Server, it might even be free and open source. Then again, it’s also possible that they reimplemented what is in effect an Exchange Server, which could explain MobileMe’s Windows support which specifically narrows down to Outlook, excluding Vista’s Windows Mail and Windows Calendar. On the other hand, reimplementing an Exchange Server would probably go against the terms set in licensing ActiveSync… on the gripping hand, it is probably allowed as an affordance towards “interoperability”, both in law and as some sort of promise. But would Apple really embrace Microsoft’s non-open binary format, prone to change, as their own? I could debate this all day.
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