No, its intended to alert an honest person who finds your phone and can determine who the owner is and how to contact them. The remote lock and remote wipe are for wiping a device that you are not going to get back.
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No, its intended to alert an honest person who finds your phone and can determine who the owner is and how to contact them. The remote lock and remote wipe are for wiping a device that you are not going to get back.
Same here. In my opinion it's well worth the $50-60 I actually pay for it each year (by finding bargains for it online).
Still no bookmark syncing with Firefox.
Is that Apple's fault or FireFox's? Is it even Apple's responsibility? I have multiple third party applications that sync their info with MobileMe: Transmit, TextExpander, 1Password (use to anyways), Entourage.
Maybe someone at FireFox just needs to add the code...?
Personally I like Mobile Me. Is it worth the $100 a stretch maybe.
I've grown to like the service myself and signed up as a trial a little more than a year ago ( early 2008 ). Admittedly at first things where rough going but the service has grown on me. For instance one good quality is the E-Mail spam filtering which seems about just right. At least I don't get all the crap spam my Yahoo account gets. The integration with iPhone and my Mac though is very very nice and seems to get better every month. On top of that I use it for off site backups.
Now about the update and the duplicated entries problem. On my system only a few entries got "duplicated". Except that they where not really duplicates at all but look to be deletions that came back to life. So I URGE EVERYBODY to look closely at any "duplicate" contact you might erase as it may contain a lot of nil data.
As an aside one of the most useful features of iPhone / Mobile Me / Mac integration is the ability to set an event and an Alarm and have it automatically propogated everywhere. Thus I've almost totally eliminated the need for paper calendars.
It is funny but over the years I've purchased a number of electronic address books, PDAs and the like. Everyone of those devices ended up in a drawer someplace with a dead battery. Not my iPhone though and I give a lot of credit to Mobile Me and the sound and easy syncing. Even older cell phones never where used to manage contacts the way my iPhone has been. I think the key there is the word "contact" as more than the phone number is being managed.
In summation I guess if I actually use it it must be worth something.
Dave
I've grown to like the service myself and signed up as a trial a little more than a year ago ( early 2008 ). Admittedly at first things where rough going but the service has grown on me. For instance one good quality is the E-Mail spam filtering which seems about just right. At least I don't get all the crap spam my Yahoo account gets. The integration with iPhone and my Mac though is very very nice and seems to get better every month. On top of that I use it for off site backups.
Now about the update and the duplicated entries problem. On my system only a few entries got "duplicated". Except that they where not really duplicates at all but look to be deletions that came back to life. So I URGE EVERYBODY to look closely at any "duplicate" contact you might erase as it may contain a lot of nil data.
As an aside one of the most useful features of iPhone / Mobile Me / Mac integration is the ability to set an event and an Alarm and have it automatically propogated everywhere. Thus I've almost totally eliminated the need for paper calendars.
It is funny but over the years I've purchased a number of electronic address books, PDAs and the like. Everyone of those devices ended up in a drawer someplace with a dead battery. Not my iPhone though and I give a lot of credit to Mobile Me and the sound and easy syncing. Even older cell phones never where used to manage contacts the way my iPhone has been. I think the key there is the word "contact" as more than the phone number is being managed.
In summation I guess if I actually use it it must be worth something.
Dave
Tweaks, but nothing to make a case for $99. Now it's almost worth $49
I would consider it at 29. Even the people at the apple store trying to push it can't say it works seamlessly yet.
They might actually be working on that.
Either the Firefox or the Thunderbird team is working on better Mac integration. At least I saw a blurb sometime ago about that. It may very well have been the Thunderbird team integrating with contacts on Mac.
Anyways your point stands in that somebody needs to write the software. It is open sourced so anybody really concerned can do it themselves.
Dave
Either the Firefox or the Thunderbird team is working on better Mac integration. At least I saw a blurb sometime ago about that. It may very well have been the Thunderbird team integrating with contacts on Mac.
Anyways your point stands in that somebody needs to write the software. It is open sourced so anybody really concerned can do it themselves.
Dave
They will never be able to say that with 100% confidence.
What I will say though with a great deal of confidence is that it has gotten far better and more worthwhile over the last year and a half. It is now worth more than a couple of bucks a month to me. Now a hundred a year is a different question, personally I think $5 a month is about right.
However the last thing I want is another advertising supported service so I hope Apple can keep things reasonable, pay for their data center needs and make a profit.
Dave
What I will say though with a great deal of confidence is that it has gotten far better and more worthwhile over the last year and a half. It is now worth more than a couple of bucks a month to me. Now a hundred a year is a different question, personally I think $5 a month is about right.
However the last thing I want is another advertising supported service so I hope Apple can keep things reasonable, pay for their data center needs and make a profit.
Dave
$5/month seems fair.
The inauspicious start can be forgiven but I still hear horror stories. They are enough to make it too risky for me. I'm glad your service is coming along though.
Alias ??
come ON apple....can you just fix this annoyance already? i have 5 freakin' alias accounts and i can't send email from them using my iphone because why.....????
fix it
come ON apple....can you just fix this annoyance already? i have 5 freakin' alias accounts and i can't send email from them using my iphone because why.....????
fix it
come ON apple....can you just fix this annoyance already? i have 5 freakin' alias accounts and i can't send email from them using my iphone because why.....????
fix it
And the irritating workaround I'm using to send from my alias address requires me to turn off push, so find my iPhone doesn't work I don't think. I know how you feel!
really? I use a work-around that lets me keep using push, the only downside is I can only use 1 alias instead of my 5.
I'm having a hard time believing that anyone can honestly think that MobileMe is not worth $50 a year. That's a little more that $5 a month. Is it because it's payed in lump sum? People throw $5 a month at GoDaddy without thinking about it and that's just web hosting.Tweaks, but nothing to make a case for $99. Now it's almost worth $49
With MobileMe you get a lot more.
Perceived value is relative to many things, not the least of which is income and availability of less expensive services that do the same thing with varying levels of difficulty.
Personally I find MobileMe well worth the money just because I don't want to hassle with the alternate methods, plus I like having my old .mac email addresses.
i auto renew my family membership every year and think it is worth the $150 year.
1. the syncing of bookmarks, contacts, keychain, address book, etc... i get with having 4 macs and 2 iphones i use regularly is great.
2. i host my website with it
3. i have 20 GB online storage and the other 4 members in my pack have 5GB each
4. combined with the Apple router accessing my attached storage files as well as screen sharing my other macs could not be easier. all my macs and my external drive connected to my Apple router are always right there in finder under shared for me to access files or screen share wherever i go
i am sure there are other things i am forgetting to mention but those alone are worth it to me.
1. the syncing of bookmarks, contacts, keychain, address book, etc... i get with having 4 macs and 2 iphones i use regularly is great.
2. i host my website with it
3. i have 20 GB online storage and the other 4 members in my pack have 5GB each
4. combined with the Apple router accessing my attached storage files as well as screen sharing my other macs could not be easier. all my macs and my external drive connected to my Apple router are always right there in finder under shared for me to access files or screen share wherever i go
i am sure there are other things i am forgetting to mention but those alone are worth it to me.
Its too bad that Apple removed the listed feature of iTunes 9 and Back to My Mac:
"With Back to My Mac, you can access your iTunes library wherever you are. On your Mac at home, turn on sharing in iTunes preferences and enable Back to My Mac in System Preferences. Then, on any Mac, sign in to MobileMe. Your library will appear in iTunes under Shared, and you can play your music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more."
See: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/783758/
This was the killer feature I have been wanting for years.
"With Back to My Mac, you can access your iTunes library wherever you are. On your Mac at home, turn on sharing in iTunes preferences and enable Back to My Mac in System Preferences. Then, on any Mac, sign in to MobileMe. Your library will appear in iTunes under Shared, and you can play your music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more."
See: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/783758/
This was the killer feature I have been wanting for years.
I'm really surprised that some believe "MobileMe" isn't worth the $99/year. I've been a .Mac member for years, and every year it seems to get better and better.
Simply pushing/syncing via the cloud to my Mac Pro and iPhone is a huge help. Granted I wish their web hosting would allow for MySEQ and PHP, although I've built sites through Dreamweaver and FPT'd them to MobileMe's servers for some clients who have a simple site and don't want to dish out more $$$. Photo/video hosting/sharing, "Back to my Mac", iDisk (makes a great virtual USB drive), Screen Sharing, etc. are all basic IT concepts that have been broken down for basic computer users to understand. It's a great service for the money.
Simply pushing/syncing via the cloud to my Mac Pro and iPhone is a huge help. Granted I wish their web hosting would allow for MySEQ and PHP, although I've built sites through Dreamweaver and FPT'd them to MobileMe's servers for some clients who have a simple site and don't want to dish out more $$$. Photo/video hosting/sharing, "Back to my Mac", iDisk (makes a great virtual USB drive), Screen Sharing, etc. are all basic IT concepts that have been broken down for basic computer users to understand. It's a great service for the money.
Tweaks, but nothing to make a case for $99. Now it's almost worth $49
This is obviously subjective. It will never be worth it to everyone, which is why Apple doesn't expect everyone to purchase it.
I'm really surprised that some believe "MobileMe" isn't worth the $99/year. I've been a .Mac member for years, and every year it seems to get better and better.
Simply pushing/syncing via the cloud to my Mac Pro and iPhone is a huge help. Granted I wish their web hosting would allow for MySEQ and PHP, although I've built sites through Dreamweaver and FPT'd them to MobileMe's servers for some clients who have a simple site and don't want to dish out more $$$. Photo/video hosting/sharing, "Back to my Mac", iDisk (makes a great virtual USB drive), Screen Sharing, etc. are all basic IT concepts that have been broken down for basic computer users to understand. It's a great service for the money.
MM is worth the full cost. People just complain because they don't like the fact you have to pay $99 + tax UPFRONT. It's only $0.27 a day. If someone here can honestly provide a realistic claim that they can't afford $0.27 a day for the features MM provides, please post.
It's just the upfront cost that some people can't handle. I see how dropping $99 + tax in one lump sum can cause you to scoff at any product, but really, break it down and it's not much for a years service that works very well.
The one thing I like about MobileMe (I've had it for a few months) is synchronization of bookmarks... the only other useful function IMO is calendar sync, but it's horribly buggy. I tried using it for sync'ing an iPhone, iCal on my MBP and Outlook in Win7/BootCamp on my MBP... it totally trashed all my calendar entries. I had entered people's birthdays as recurring all-day events in Outlook. When MobileMe got hold of these they were somehow shifted one hour back when they were created as duplicate events on the iPhone and in iCal. Then MobileMe saw those and said "hey, Outlook doesn't have these so let's copy them there". After this feedback loop had been allowed to continue for a while, each birthday had like 25 duplicate events for each recurring instance. It broke some other stuff as well, can't remember what it was but ultimately I had to cut Outlook out of the MobileMe loop. I don't think I'll be renewing the subscription. DropBox serves me better than iDisk, and syncing the three or so bookmarks that change every month just isn't worth a hundred bucks a year.
I understand!
When I first go my iPhone I was ready to pitch it at the wall but I stuck it out and today I really like the little computer. So when I say I understand you concern i really do. However for me Mobile Me was never as bad as some of the reports seen on the web. Yeah it had serious issues at the start but a quick web search resolved them.
More than a year later and it is an entirely different ball game. I use my mail account daily, and the contacts feature to a slightly lesser extent. It is really the first PDA/web service/computer combo that has really worked well for me and literally gets better as time goes on. That continuous improvement is really worth something these days.
Dave
When I first go my iPhone I was ready to pitch it at the wall but I stuck it out and today I really like the little computer. So when I say I understand you concern i really do. However for me Mobile Me was never as bad as some of the reports seen on the web. Yeah it had serious issues at the start but a quick web search resolved them.
More than a year later and it is an entirely different ball game. I use my mail account daily, and the contacts feature to a slightly lesser extent. It is really the first PDA/web service/computer combo that has really worked well for me and literally gets better as time goes on. That continuous improvement is really worth something these days.
Dave
Please don't dismiss that many people do have money problems.
Get out a bit and make contact with some people who have come here as refugees, many arriving with little more than the cloths on their backs. it takes them awhile to get their lives in order and something as simple as an e-mail account and a device to connect to it can be seen as an unobtainable luxury.
The value in the current pricing can only be judged by the alternatives. Frankly I don't think there are a lot of alternatives but that is me. But it is relatively stiff but not unacceptably so.
Dave
I can't claim that I have that problem today but I can relate that I've known people that do or have had such problems. You shouldn't assume that people are always employed (especially these day) or that they come to this country with buckets of cash.
Get out a bit and make contact with some people who have come here as refugees, many arriving with little more than the cloths on their backs. it takes them awhile to get their lives in order and something as simple as an e-mail account and a device to connect to it can be seen as an unobtainable luxury.
The value in the current pricing can only be judged by the alternatives. Frankly I don't think there are a lot of alternatives but that is me. But it is relatively stiff but not unacceptably so.
Dave
I'm having the same problem. Seems like this would be an easy calendar to create because the data is already on the phone. O well.
