Maybe b/c everyone's trying to access it at the same time and it's too much for the servers?
Damn it sijambo, you beat me to it!
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Apple Launches MobileMe and Apple TV 2.1
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Maybe b/c everyone's trying to access it at the same time and it's too much for the servers?
Damn it sijambo, you beat me to it!
Ha ha ha!!!
Why not? I do. My mom didn't even notice the transition.
My wife is in IT and has used her admin access to put FF on as many machines as possible, even though her company doesn't officially support it.
Liam, my man, don't be too surprised when you find your new email account is all full of spam!
Are you a LOLcat?
You can haz iPd tuch fermware wen U pay ten dollar.
Apple owes me 20 cents!
Don't worry, they'll give a credit card to just about anybody these days!
okay i just got all the way through, put my credit card information in, and then blam back to the redirect apple page? Anyone know what happened here!
true words. .mac was a good idea and i liked the features a lot. but the implementation was bad. unconsistent user interface and unreliable. i can't count how often it said mail is down for 4% of all membersw but i was alway part of the 4%. sync was unreliable as well although i did all the manual forced syncs to get it started.
if me.com is done by the same people who did .mac then i'm very pessimistic. my only hope is they fired the entire .mac team and did me.com with a more professional team.
If i owned a business and had thousands of people ready to fork over $100 bucks to get one service, I'd be furious if that service wasn't ready by the scheduled maintenance date. I hope Jobs puts some dudes in headlocks!
It's in a state of flux! (That should sort the "it's up"/"it's down" business). I suspect it's up and down from the load incurred by people seeing if it's back up yet.
Anyone found out if you can register a new account with the @me.com address and use an @mac.com address instead, or does it only work the other way around? (Personal preference... me.com is a bit tacky IMO)
Be glad it's Apple and not Microsoft, as then it'd be 2 years late and not just a few hours
BTW, I expect Linux users will be able to use user agent switcher to get around the artificial limitation of not being able to access the service through that OS.
Anyone found out if you can register a new account with the @me.com address and use an @mac.com address instead, or does it only work the other way around? (Personal preference... me.com is a bit tacky IMO)
Be glad it's Apple and not Microsoft, as then it'd be 2 years late and not just a few hours
BTW, I expect Linux users will be able to use user agent switcher to get around the artificial limitation of not being able to access the service through that OS.
When we get iPhone 2.0 and the itunes remote app, you can use it on apple tv, thats it, appart from a few bug fixes!
I keep hearing the song 'I get knocked down but I get up again' in my head. Please make it go away!
Me too! I bet we will have to re-enter everything once it gets back up and running.
Put Jobs in a headlock and hold him hostage until MobileMe finally loads and can stay online.
Sebastian
Remote.app works flawlessly, btw, with AppleTV 2.1.
I just wish they'd turn on MobileMe so I can push my contacts and calendars and email!!!!
Now THAT is funny! Can you see his skinny --- clicking away? Then he pulls out his iPhone and all is right with the world.
If you already synced with .Mac, go ahead and set up your account on your iPhone and all will be pushed.
And maybe we should make all movies black and white and silent because some people have older television sets and might have their speakers turned off?
It is exactly this attitude which has allowed Microsoft to ignore internet standards - we keep pandering to outdated, non-compliant software because it's what "everybody uses" - why does everybody use it? Firefox is free, more secure than internet explorer and standards compliant - do your students a favour and stop making them work on software which is out of date and a security risk - it's not going to cost anyone any money?
Internet Explorer 6 is dead - 7 is a mess - just move to firefox - we could all do it overnight and destroy the explorer market share and move to a standards compliant, secure, future!
I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to update the iPhone to 2.0 and it is also impossible to restore the iPhone to 1.1.4.
Remember a few things:
- Apple doesn't have as much experience in Web Apps as, say, Google. This is a premium service though, and we can't excuse poor quality. It should be working soon, or they'll revert to .Mac (PR disaster, but it's better than having lots of customers without service -- or is it? This is Steve)
- This was made on a strict deadline. It had to be at demo-able state by WWDC, and had to be out to launch alongside the iPhone 3G. They may have had to rush certain bits, which will be fixed after launch. They may have discovered bugs at the last minute, and had to update things whilst launch preparations were ongoing.
- Apple's .Mac servers probably never experienced this kind of load. Hopefully they bought a few more for this service (Push needs a permanent connection to the client. With 3 or 4 devices per user, that's a lot of stress for the servers). Apple may not have anticipated the load they're getting now.
- Web Apps can be pretty complex, as they have no strict structural requirements. And this is built off SproutCore, which I don't think has been tested extensively under heavy load.
It's only 7:30am in Cupertino. Steve's probably using his iPhone to figure out where he can buy a Mace at this hour, ready to storm the .Mac offices.
- Apple doesn't have as much experience in Web Apps as, say, Google. This is a premium service though, and we can't excuse poor quality. It should be working soon, or they'll revert to .Mac (PR disaster, but it's better than having lots of customers without service -- or is it? This is Steve)
- This was made on a strict deadline. It had to be at demo-able state by WWDC, and had to be out to launch alongside the iPhone 3G. They may have had to rush certain bits, which will be fixed after launch. They may have discovered bugs at the last minute, and had to update things whilst launch preparations were ongoing.
- Apple's .Mac servers probably never experienced this kind of load. Hopefully they bought a few more for this service (Push needs a permanent connection to the client. With 3 or 4 devices per user, that's a lot of stress for the servers). Apple may not have anticipated the load they're getting now.
- Web Apps can be pretty complex, as they have no strict structural requirements. And this is built off SproutCore, which I don't think has been tested extensively under heavy load.
It's only 7:30am in Cupertino. Steve's probably using his iPhone to figure out where he can buy a Mace at this hour, ready to storm the .Mac offices.