MobileMe Wish List

[Slip Jigs]

Now that my extra-long and generaous trial period has ended, I upped to a family plan. Also, now that I'm not a paying customer I feel I have the right to express a few things I would like to see in future updates, if there are to be any. Also would like to see if anyone else has similar needs or others.

1. The abillity to syn the gallery with some sort of application that runs on Window, such as Photoshop Elements or Picasa.
2. The ability to create sub-folders/galleries
3. Would like to assign my 40 gigs of space across the provided accounts as I see fit - right now it's kinda weird, the master account gets 20 Gigs and the other 4 get 5 gig each. What if I only need two accounts? Can't use all the storage unless you use all 4 additional accounts.
4. I would also like to see the public gallery evolve into more of complete homepage, social networking page. Yeah, I know you can post your own site, but for things like this it would be easier to have a personal homepage with the gallery integrated and be able to support video and other things. If that were the case, I coiuld do away with MySpace and Youtube.

[Digital Skunk]

Your number four can seriously be done in iWeb.

But I understand what you are saying.... and I know that my number 5 would take care of it. Also, this may be more of a Mobile Me/iLife.

5) Flash support in iWeb and ability to create webpages with flash.
6) Albums and slideshows made in iWeb support flash.
7) DE-CLUTTER THE GALLERIES! They are sickeningly annoyingly crowded.
8) Faster upload and download times (most likely dependent on my ISP though)

[Slip Jigs]

Are you daying that the personal webpage doesn't support the Flash mime type, or is it just the iWeb application? I'm on a PC, so I haven't tried iWeb and I haven't tried to publish a page to the public folder on Mobileme.

I could create a site elsewhere, actually I have - it's sort of what I do. But I prefer the core functonality of MM, much more that I wiould care to build myself, and of course, I couldn't replicate the iPhone integration.

Is your number 7 the same as what I was saying in number 2? Also not having worked with iPhoto or Aperture I'm not sure if they allow sub-categories to the galleries. If they do I wonder how it syncs.

[Digital Skunk]

Are you daying that the personal webpage doesn't support the Flash mime type, or is it just the iWeb application? I'm on a PC, so I haven't tried iWeb and I haven't tried to publish a page to the public folder on Mobileme.

I could create a site elsewhere, actually I have - it's sort of what I do. But I prefer the core functonality of MM, much more that I wiould care to build myself, and of course, I couldn't replicate the iPhone integration.

Is your number 7 the same as what I was saying in number 2? Also not having worked with iPhoto or Aperture I'm not sure if they allow sub-categories to the galleries. If they do I wonder how it syncs.

I am talking about the iWeb application. So far it's only HTML, which gets many people pretty far, but not far enough in terms of presentation for certain types of users (much like a photographer).

The de-clutter part is in reference to the look of the galleries when viewed. I wouldn't mind sub-folders, but I barely use the galleries since there's just too much stuff on the page.

[QueenZ]

..port in iWeb and ability to create webpages with flash.


+1 That would be really great..

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I am talking about the iWeb application. So far it's only HTML, which gets many people pretty far, but not far enough in terms of presentation for certain types of users (much like a photographer).

The de-clutter part is in reference to the look of the galleries when viewed. I wouldn't mind sub-folders, but I barely use the galleries since there's just too much stuff on the page.

You can make flash elements elsewhere and just paste them into iWeb.

[Digital Skunk]

You can make flash elements elsewhere and just paste them into iWeb.

Is this true?

Because if it is I plan to be sitting behind my computer for a few more hours every night completely redoing my site.

I will give it a shot and see.

Oh, and by Flash I mean FLV files and so forth.

[londondude]

I would like:

ability to access bookmarks from me.com website portal.

very easy method of using the gallery for photo hosting (to post to a website or something). so right click an image and it has the option of add to gallery. then later right click option to be a link to the list of images in your gallery.

mobile me website to also have rss reader.

calenders subscriptions sync able.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Is this true?

Because if it is I plan to be sitting behind my computer for a few more hours every night completely redoing my site.

I will give it a shot and see.

Oh, and by Flash I mean FLV files and so forth.

Well I know you can insert YouTube videos and googlemaps maps and other imbedded objects.

[Sky Blue]

Free Dashboard widgets

[impaler]

I put up with MobileMe since July and as of today, I'm saying goodbye in favor of going back to Gmail and google services. Apple designs gorgeous hardware and for the most part, amazing desktop software--but they're just children in a man's game when it comes to delivering web apps. Not just the apps themselves but the support system necessary to keep them reliable.

I'm done with contacts disappearing from my iPhone 3G randomly, having to check to ensure e-mails are sent, sending multiple copies of e-mails to the same person, web site timeouts, lack of good Windows integration. I just don't "trust" MobileMe to take care of me. Here's what I'd like to see:

1) Better performance!!! This is huge. I hear Firefox 3.1 and the upcoming Safari 4.0 will have tons better Javascript engines--but as of now the web interfaces are painful and little improved from July.

2) The ability to KEEP calendars/contacts/bookmarks when turning off sync. Many people got hosed on this one when they cancelled MobileMe.

3) Live telephone support. I know this costs money--but I've spent countless dollars since July trying to get it to work.

4) Access bookmarks from online. Why get rid of this with .mac? UGH. Foxmarks is the best app out there for bookmarks and password sync. Come on guys.

These guys just can't keep up with the true web innovators out there. Apple doesn't understand the web very well. I WANT to love MobileMe, but it just is weak.

[londondude]

oh be able to tag contacts would be good.

[antsh]

The number one thing I wish it did was able to sync subscription calendars to the iPhone.

[smooth]

I'd like to see more browser support - at least IE6.

[Macsterguy]

I put up with MobileMe since July and as of today, I'm saying goodbye in favor of going back to Gmail and google services. Apple designs gorgeous hardware and for the most part, amazing desktop software--but they're just children in a man's game when it comes to delivering web apps. Not just the apps themselves but the support system necessary to keep them reliable.

I'm done with contacts disappearing from my iPhone 3G randomly, having to check to ensure e-mails are sent, sending multiple copies of e-mails to the same person, web site timeouts, lack of good Windows integration. I just don't "trust" MobileMe to take care of me. Here's what I'd like to see:

1) Better performance!!! This is huge. I hear Firefox 3.1 and the upcoming Safari 4.0 will have tons better Javascript engines--but as of now the web interfaces are painful and little improved from July.

2) The ability to KEEP calendars/contacts/bookmarks when turning off sync. Many people got hosed on this one when they cancelled MobileMe.

3) Live telephone support. I know this costs money--but I've spent countless dollars since July trying to get it to work.

4) Access bookmarks from online. Why get rid of this with .mac? UGH. Foxmarks is the best app out there for bookmarks and password sync. Come on guys.

These guys just can't keep up with the true web innovators out there. Apple doesn't understand the web very well. I WANT to love MobileMe, but it just is weak.

Well said though I will give Apple till January since Steve Jobs said "MobileMe will be something we can be proud of" by them.... NO LONGER

[focalplane]

....If you have exchange syncing in work, as i do.

I have no choice but to go with MobileMe in order to sync my personal calendar/contacts, as the iPhone will only support one exchange account at a time, and then there's the problem that once your exchange account is set up, you cant sync calendars through iTunes.

I find this rather annoying, but my biggest wish is proper domain support. I want to be able to send and receive emails using my own domain through MobileMe without having to forward email to my MobileMe account.

Im not talking about domain hosting, just let me point it at apple's dns servers.

also sort the windows control panel out, no syncing through a proxy, is madness.

[Turmoil]

I'd like to see more browser support - at least IE6.

+1

it's a deal breaker for me.

[southerndoc]

I publish my iCal calendar on the web for family to keep up with when I'm working. Would be nice if MobileMe did this automatically instead of requiring you to sync when iCal is open. In other words, I would like for the cloud to publish a public iCal calendar. I would also like to see the ability for visitors to request appointments.

[Fuchal]

Free Dashboard widgets

HA! Yes, I've been waiting years for those too.

How about: Make MobileMe work? Seems like its a crapshoot on whether the webmail works or is "unavailable" every time I load the page.

+1

it's a deal breaker for me.

Why would Apple bother supporting a 9 year old browser? People who still use IE 6 are hardly their target market for MobileMe.

[Digital Skunk]

Why would Apple bother supporting a 9 year old browser? People who still use IE 6 are hardly their target market for MobileMe.

I think anyone that has the money and desire to pay the $99 for MM is Apple's target market. Especially since there are a lot of mindless people out there buying iPhones, and Apple is trying their hardest to sell MM to PC users with iPhones, that most likely use IE6 or 7.

Apple should try their best to make it work with most browsers, or at least those three that are used the most: Firefox, Safari, and IE.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I think anyone that has the money and desire to pay the $99 for MM is Apple's target market. Especially since there are a lot of mindless people out there buying iPhones, and Apple is trying their hardest to sell MM to PC users with iPhones, that most likely use IE6 or 7.

Apple should try their best to make it work with most browsers, or at least those three that are used the most: Firefox, Safari, and IE.

Mobileme gives me unlimitted texts for $99 per year. That alone was good enough for me.

[yg17]

Why would Apple bother supporting a 9 year old browser? People who still use IE 6 are hardly their target market for MobileMe.


A lot of people are stuck with IE6. At work, a lot of or PCs have IE6. Fortunately, I was able to upgrade to IE7 on my work computer which is still very buggy with Mobile Me (the calendar is barely usable) but at least it works, but a lot of companies are still on 6.

[Slip Jigs]

I'd like to see more browser support - at least IE6.

I know there are other threads on this, but I've yet to see something not work or be available in IE7. Apple says that it's IE that doesn't doesn't fully support Web 2.0.

I think anyone that has the money and desire to pay the $99 for MM is Apple's target market. Especially since there are a lot of mindless people out there buying iPhones, and Apple is trying their hardest to sell MM to PC users with iPhones, that most likely use IE6 or 7.

Apple should try their best to make it work with most browsers, or at least those three that are used the most: Firefox, Safari, and IE.

I hope you're not saying that all people who buy iPhones are mindless.

Mobileme gives me unlimitted texts for $99 per year. That alone was good enough for me.

OK - how does having Mobileme, which is Apple, translate into unlimited texting, which is ATT?

[Kashchei]

Apple could start regaining my trust regarding Mobile Me if they simply lived up to their word. I refer specifically to their promise of being able to email large files, a feature that apparently wasn't ready for prime time and wasn't included in the roll-out. As we all know, this feature still hasn't been added, and yet it is still promised on the Mobile Me features page (http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/idisk.html).

[londondude]

list view on calender

[TuffLuffJimmy]

OK - how does having Mobileme, which is Apple, translate into unlimited texting, which is ATT?

Because you can send email to phones as text messages, it's just 1234567890@text.att.net, (or whatever their carrier's address is) then they can reply, with push mail it works very, very well.

[cadujr]

Today i use a third party software called spanning sync to sync ical with google cal just because i must allow my assistant to add events on my ical.
Since mm does not allow me to grant access to parts of my calendar (and only my calendar) i have to sync everything with Gcal and where i can grant access to others to my calendars.
So i would very much like if a could set a password for others to access parts of mobileme.

[NinjaMonkey]

I'd really like updates to the Gallery portion since that is what I use the most.

- Allow comments on photos, you can do this with iWeb but why not with Galleries.

- Allow me to change the layout of the Galleries. I'd like to better organize them, my gallery starting to look cluttered.

Web Mail:

- More options when composing mail, GMail (as well as most others) blows MobileMe out of the water on this one.

More Apps (which maybe coming according to rumors)

- Create/Edit iWork documents from the browser.

- Bookmarks, bring back them back!

- iWeb, let me at least update my blog from the browser. Better yet, give me an iPhone app where I can do this as well.

- A stripped down version of me.com I can use at work on IE6.

Thats all I can think of right now...

[boston04and07]

2) The ability to KEEP calendars/contacts/bookmarks when turning off sync. Many people got hosed on this one when they cancelled MobileMe.

Sorry if this is a dumb question or if it's been answered before, but I was just looking at this thread and this line scared me. I just started a trial of MobileMe to see if I like it enough to buy it, and of course turned on syncing between my iPhone and my Mac. Are you saying that if I turn of syncing (which obviously would happen if I decide to cancel the service), that I'll lose all of that information??! And if so, how can I prevent this?? Geez, I'm nervous now!

[bergmef]

I'd like:
1. a way to stop the reloading when in mail and calendar. I'll click get mail when I want to.

2. A way to set an alarm in calendar. If I add an event, I have to wait till I get home to add the alarm.

3. The email idisk download that they mentioned. I really want that. And make it windows friendly files too.

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Sorry if this is a dumb question or if it's been answered before, but I was just looking at this thread and this line scared me. I just started a trial of MobileMe to see if I like it enough to buy it, and of course turned on syncing between my iPhone and my Mac. Are you saying that if I turn of syncing (which obviously would happen if I decide to cancel the service), that I'll lose all of that information??! And if so, how can I prevent this?? Geez, I'm nervous now!

If you cancel MobileMe, you will lose that data on your iPhone but not on your Mac. You can then sync all the data back to the phone manually through iTunes.

[Digital Skunk]

3. The email idisk download that they mentioned. I really want that. And make it windows friendly files too.

This is something I especially wanted. After having been a user of Box.net and loving it's simplicity with both Mac browsers and Windows browsers I was a bit peeved to switch back to using my iDisk and not having that features that Apple said was going to be included.

[Ed91]

This is something I especially wanted. After having been a user of Box.net and loving it's simplicity with both Mac browsers and Windows browsers I was a bit peeved to switch back to using my iDisk and not having that features that Apple said was going to be included.

Me too. This was the one feature that I was REALLY looking forward to, and I was pretty unhappy to see that it wasn't there. I don't even understand how it could be so complex or badly done that they had to pull it, either..

Damn you, Apple.

[thithi]

3. The email idisk download that they mentioned. I really want that. And make it windows friendly files too.

I found a workaround for this. Read this entry (http://web.me.com/thierry.cornelis/Site/Blog/Entries/2009/1/13_Direct_linking_to_files_in_the_Public_folder_of_a_MobileMe_iDisk.html) on my blog (http://web.me.com/thierry.cornelis/Site/Blog/Blog.html).

[Digital Skunk]

I found a workaround for this. Read this entry (http://web.me.com/thierry.cornelis/Site/Blog/Entries/2009/1/13_Direct_linking_to_files_in_the_Public_folder_of_a_MobileMe_iDisk.html) on my blog (http://web.me.com/thierry.cornelis/Site/Blog/Blog.html).

This works at times, but I really wanted that email the client the link and they click on it and the download begins that Apple said we were going to get.

[Simon Young]

I'd like email to be more responsive. At present it takes too long to search for new mail or refresh folders - on both my Mac and iPhone. Yahoo! Mail is much quicker, to the point of being near-instant.

[ggersch]

A key thing I use MM for is copying my work meetings into the calendar. I use alerts to alarm me 5 minutes before each meeting.

Why can't I set alerts right in MM? It is incredibly annoying to have to create a meeting in MM, then remember to go back to every single entry on my phone to set the alert. Missed a meeting just last week because I forgot.

A significant chunk of MM users only have it because they have iPhones. Why can't Apple provide better support for the iPhone?

Oh, and I'd also like: Send from my domain address, IE6 support, subscribed calendar support.

(Geez, just how hard can it be to echo the birthdays to the iPhone screen? I end up having to create duplicate calendar entries.)