While working today, I thought of an interesting concept, .Mac for the iPhone. What if you could get an @iphone.com email, similar to those of the blackberry users’ (@*carrier*.blackberry.net)? Backup your iPhone from anywhere, access files on your Mac and upload your pictures directly from your camera roll to it? And Sync your calendars and contacts to it?

Would you be more willing to pay the $99 a year for .Mac with these ideas included? I can tell you that I would.

So why would Apple do this? To me, this idea is interesting, but it doesn’t appear to be so revolutionary. For one, and @iphone.com email would help emphasize the iPhone brand. Backing up your iPhone on the run would be essential to users in small businesses, not big enough to worry about full size enterprise management, but concerned about their sensitive and valuable information. You forgot a valuable file at the office, why not just use your iPhone to get it back over the internet. Or you’re at a party, you pull out your iPhone you take a picture, and click upload within the camera roll, and its on your .Mac iPhone page. You add an event in or a contact, and your iPhone automatically syncs it up with the server, also getting synced to your Mac.

This seems like an obvious next step for .Mac. I think this could be a very valuable tool for iPhone users. I’ve already started crossing my fingers that this will be announced alongside the iPhone 2.0 software.

Got any ideas? Post a comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks to Nik Youdale of Acqualia for feedback on this idea.

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