For six years not much has changed with Appple’s .Mac service, but that could be about to change. It seems that Apple is looking to rename the service to Mobile Me, and revamp the entire suite of tools while they are at it. All references to the .Mac name in OS X 10.5.3 have been replaced with an easy to change in the future variable.

%@ is the new name of Apple’s online service (was .Mac)

That is considering a variable can be changed in a software update from Apple. that localized string from iCal makes it very clear what is going on. Plainly, you can see the service has a new name, and it explicitly says the name is not .Mac. To up the

speculation even more, strings in the new iPhone SDK assemble references to ‘Mobile Me’.

A simple Who Is reveals that Apple owns the domain ‘Me.com’ which is presumably where all the .Mac mail addresses would go. There is no need to nag, as all your e mail from your .Mac detail and corresponding mail address will be forwarded to the new history.

Apple filed the trademark for the name Mobile Me back in 2006, and it was never known what they would use it for. More rumors by the name change is a sub $50 service, and push newsletter support. It is plus rumored the changes could allow by the air syncing of .Mac utilities to the iPhone 2.0.

Original post by Chase Higgins