While listening to Your Mac Life last week, Shawn mentioned that Apple might find it a show stopper to offer email on their mobile phone as .Mac won't work on a pc. Here are my thoughts on this. I was wondering how many people actually use a real mail client anymore? Forget the syncing part of .Mac for this argument. Webmail would allow a pc user to use .Mac. Does Apple have the bandwidth if this was to be tried and was a success? Maybe not. Google does and they are on Apple's board. Does Apple make much money from .Mac? Not as much as it would from a phone. Ship .Mac over to Google and let them cope. I know lots of people who want email on their phone, but it is too hard to setup. Data charges are another issue, but if Apple are a virtual provider, I am sure they can make that attractive. I still believe deep down, people only want a simple phone, but with add on services (i.e. a subscription model, email, video calls, iChat etc.)