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A recent Apple support article details many of the MobileMe improvements made in the late September 2008 update. With a total of 27 improvements, some of them seem pretty important. What’s interesting about this update, however, is that Apple never notified their users, or anyone, about these updates when they were made back in September. Their reason for this is as follows:

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. 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”.

I find it sort of interesting that Apple would wait almost a month to inform their users about these updates, but I don’t think it really matters as long as the updates improve the service and don’t deal with users’ privacy or personal information. Apple does have a point in that it isn’t really necessary to tell users of updates right away because all of the updating is on their side of the client-server relationship, the users just experience the changes. It all depends on your viewpoint, though. What do you think? Would it have been nice to know about these changes when they actually occurred?

Via AppleInsider

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