I've really been trying to justify the cost of MobileMe. Am I doing something wrong here? The email is sub-par at best. It's one thing that the "push notifications" don't work, but it doesn't update at all on my phone unless I manually check it. This is a major concern, not just for me, but for mobileMe in general. My free gmail works better across devices than my paid subscription. I think it's a major concern. Not to mentions if you transfer emails from one account to another, the sort order is set to modified date rather than send or received date. Seems like an easy fix, yet there is not dice in that. You have to jump through hoops to get it to sort correctly by making folders, moving emails, moving emails again, etc...
Also, idisk. As great a concept as it is, I would more like to use it for other people to send me large files, not the other way around. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen. There's the bug where when you upload a file, it never tells you that it's done. It wouldn't be so bad if it was for more personal use, but I'm trying to use it for a business. Maybe this is not what it's intended for, but none the less, it does not work a advertised. I've contacted apple about this and they say they are working on it, but I haven't actually seen them acknowledge it at all other than to me. I know this has been an issue for a long time.
Don't get me wrong, I really want to love it. It allows me to securely connect to my Airport from anywhere, which is cool, as well as sync contacts and calendars, but to me (and maybe I'm alone in this), these are secondary things. I can connect to my airport without the service through some port forwarding, and I can pretty easily plug in my iphone to sync.
They should focus on making the main functionality actually functional. Then I could justify the cost. I'm on my second trial, because I wanted to give it a second chance. My end date is in seven days, and I'll probably purchase it, but it is with some major hesitation and pretty much out of laziness to go back and set everything up the way I had it. I just hope they focus on the main points and not so much the secondary frills in the next updates.
