is it me or mobileME

[g/re/p]

Originally Posted by bbloke

Ouch.

And now David Pogue is in on it too (although primarily referring to the teething troubles), writing an article called "Apple's MobileMess."

from Pogues article:

For a few, it’s a lot worse. “This morning, I woke up and turned on my computer,” wrote one reader. “Happily, it seemed that the MobileMe e-mail service was back up. However, a few seconds later, when my computer synced with .Mac/MobileMe, ALL of my e-mail — every single e-mail I’ve ever sent, received, and filed on .Mac — disappeared. Every e-mail file on my hard drive (in the Mail library) was gone. I immediately went to Me.com to make sure that all my e-mail was still saved to Apple’s server. It wasn’t. All of the mail was gone.”

Apple escalated her case and dedicated top technicians to it, for which she was grateful. In the end, however, they recovered only 43 messages. The rest are gone forever.

Not just her online emails, but all of the emails on her harddrive! I would be PISSED!!

I would also thank myself for keeping a bi-weekly backup of my entire email folder on a thumb drive...........

[icemanjc]

Originally Posted by aicul

Anyone notice that subscribed to calendars are not synched to iTouch (and I suppose iPhone). And it is impossible to subscribe to a calendar in iTouch either.

:-(

Sorry but it ANNOYS the crap out of me when people call it the iTouch.

Originally Posted by g/re/p

I would also thank myself for keeping a bi-weekly backup of my entire email folder on a thumb drive...........

Thats a good idea with all this going on, i'm going to start doing that now.

[lbj]

I too would be pissed if my harddrive were touched!

Having said that, there are two types of people in the world ... those who back up regularly and those who will wish they did.

[Ferdinand]

Originally Posted by icemanjc

Sorry but it ANNOYS the crap out of me when people call it the iTouch.

Same here.

Originally Posted by lbj

Having said that, there are two types of people in the world ... those who back up regularly and those who will wish they did.

Around 2 or 3 years ago, I started backing up using .Mac Backup and CDs. For another few months I backed up my data every week on a CD (only some docs and prefs). Then it started to get stressful, and then it was just plain annoying. So I stopped backing up, but as soon as I got Leopard, I started backing up again with Time Machine. I have to say, having an external HD hooked up to my Mac and letting it back up automatically is so much easier!

I (luckily) never had my HD crash so I never needed the backups I made so far.

So I think its just depends on what you use and if you want to try new things or not.

And yes you are right - those are the two types of people.

[aicul]

Originally Posted by icemanjc

Sorry but it ANNOYS the crap out of me when people call it the iTouch.

Ok icemanjc, what should one call the iPod that has all the iPhone capabilities except for the phone, camera, BT and now GPS?

Any better proposal is welcome

[Cat]

iPhoneless?

[Ferdinand]

Originally Posted by aicul

Ok icemanjc, what should one call the iPod that has all the iPhone capabilities except for the phone, camera, BT and now GPS?

Hmm... let me think.... what about...

iPod Touch ?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally Posted by Ferdinand

Hmm... let me think.... what about...

iPod Touch ?

I got a better one... howabout:

iPod touch

(capitalization fixes, sorry -- I'm a stickler for spelling and grammar!)

You know, since that's the exact name given to it by Apple and all, and, well, since they made it and all, well, I think that's probably what people should call it.

A lot of people say, "iTouch," but that's not its name and is just an alias given to it by the teeming masses of people. Apple has never uttered nor printed nor published nor referenced the name, "iTouch."

Still, Apple has final say on what their products' names will be, and referring to it by something else will eventually only confuse people. What if we called the "iMac" a "pineapple?" Its name is not "pineapple," it's "iMac." So call it an "iMac," even if you think you've got a better name for it.

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/