is it me or mobileME

[Ferdinand]

Originally Posted by Satcomer

IMHO Mobile Me will abandoned (by the higher ups at Apple) like .Mac was after the change from iTools.

Just they abandoned .Mac many (I think like 7?) years after its introduction and after all of this hard organizational and technical work I think they'll keep MobileMe for at least another 4 years. Otherwise it wouldn't have been worth it to introduce it.

Personally I don't like MobileMe, because it just isn't what you would expect of such an expensive service.

What was .Mac? It wasn't just an email service with a calender and some contacts, like hotmail etc. It was a portal. You could create your webpages online, make your own groups, read tips on the .Mac blog page, go to Member Central and download apps and jam packs, send ecards, have your bookmarks with you wherever you go... I could go on and on. All of this was available at mac.com - not in separate apps in your Finder or anywhere else.

So what is MobileMe? Well its basically me.com which is the same like hotmail.com. Both have email, calender and contacts. Just MobileMe also has an online iDisk webpage. Well thats great, but what if you use Apple Mail or Entourage for your mail, Addressbook for your contacts and iCal for your calender? And everyone who needs to access their iDisk anyway goes to the finder. So whats left? What else does it offer? Not a lot, I can tell you. Only uploading webpages with iWeb, photo print outs etc. with iPhoto (none of this is new by the way) and the syncing of mail etc. with your iPhone and iPod Touch.

Did anyone notice what the ads of MobileMe were about? Push. Push contacts. Push calender. Push email. Every since MobileMe ad had the word push in it - that was the only marketing they could do - because there isnt anything else to market in MobileMe!

And then that message that actually it isnt even push, its just an automatic sync every 15 minutes (on your computer at least).

Quite disappointing I must say.

And now I understand why they made MobileMe cheaper than .Mac.

[aicul]

Refering to my previous post about those people that have messed up mobileMe - particularly the mail and hyphens in domains - that I think should be shown the door.

Someone commented that if they are shown the door the mess would be left unsolved.

Please pardon my comment here, but they have not left, and the mess is still here.

ps. In another thread I mentionned I had not received an "apology" email from Apple. But I have recevied an email saying mobileME works and is available.

Maybe left hand should talk to right hand....

[Rhisiart]

Originally Posted by Ferdinand

Personally I don't like MobileMe, because it just isn't what you would expect of such an expensive service.

I take your point Ferdinand, but from now on I'll use MobileMe every day on my work's PC and I know I'll find the simpler web portal very useful, obviously for mail and calendar.

OK, so I have to wait 15 minutes for syncing/pushing between my PC at work and my Mac at home. I think I can live with that.

[Satcomer]

MobileMe Status

Steve Jobs has asked me to write a posting every other day or so to let everyone know what’s happening with MobileMe, and I’m working directly with the MobileMe group to ensure that we keep you really up to date.

[Rhisiart]

Quote from Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune:

It’s more than likely heads will roll over this botched [MobileMe] roll-out, if they haven’t already. But given Jobs’ well-documented propensity for micromanagement, it’s also possible that he was warned that the product wasn’t ready for primetime and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. If that’s the case, the blame for MobileMe may be his.

[g/re/p]

I only had .mac for a short period of time, and the reason i did not keep the service was my bad experiences with outages and ongoing problems that never really seemed to get resolved completely - and for what little it offered, it was also overpriced.

Did the service ever reach an acceptable level of "stableness"?

The current problems with mobileme, which is basically just .mac relabled, seem to be more of the same - which makes me wonder why apple still cannot seem to get its act together on .mac/mobileme.

[aicul]

We mail "seems" to work. But I have opted for another provider which made my mail work in less than 1 hour. So now I don't care about mail.

Concerning iDisk, I now notice that I cannot use a simple browser to upload simple clipping files (the select/drag text to desktop files).

dismal..

[aicul]

Oh, and I'm still waiting for the apology email, because it wasn't in my me.com inbox...