Palm's webOS does not presume any sort of tether at all. The company has totally ditched the idea that you will use this phone in conjunction with a specific "main PC" that contains the canonical, authoritative repository of your data. Instead, webOS draws seamlessly on a variety of data services—not data repositories, but cloud-based services that actively feed the device both data and critical context.
Now the article says that they're not sure about music yet. For me, if one device is going to be my main--and only--device, then it needs to have music on it. Music, at this point, can't be "synergized," I don't think. It needs a computer, that "main PC." (Unless Palm has come up with a way to sync Gigs of data over the air, which I doubt.) So while I see the benefits of this system, I would still need to use a computer. I guess it saves that $99/year price of MobileMe, at least.
I think this is a step in the right direction. I dislike that Apple makes customers pay for things like MobileMe and iWork.com. Palm seems to be offering this for free (correct me if I'm wrong on any of this). Google offers similar options. Sure, they're ad-supported, but Google appears to be winning in the features category too. If that oh-so-important ease-of-use category gets an improvement, then imagine the possibilities. Over-the-air syncing of Contacts, Calendars, Email--all pushed to your phone, no Exchange/MobileMe required. And, you don't have to pay to keep your email address every year. That's what I want, and that's why I still don't use MobileMe. It can't function as my primary email address because I still have to pay. Allow me to keep my email address functioning after I stop paying, and I'll think about buying MobileMe. $99/year for the rest of my life just to keep my email address doesn't cut it.
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