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Apple Launches MobileMe and Apple TV 2.1

Yep, then let all your friends, etc. know that you're moving to @me.com. You can send a mass mail, or even an auto-reply from gmail letting people know when they hit that addy.

mike12806 said:
Okay, maybe to push the discussion a little past the obvious....

If I currently have a gmail account, what is my easiest way to transition to MobileMe? Forward my gmail account to my mobileme? Help!
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NAG said:
Just a clarification before you go on to your tirade about people going on tirades:

This isn't an issue relating to people who manually upgraded their OS. This is a problem with the mobileme servers. The person you are referencing is just saying that it doesn't matter if you installed the update manually or are waiting for it in software update since everyone is having problems logging in at me.com.

There, now that we have the pesky facts out of the way feel free to continue to gripe at people.
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I'm not the one moaning - i'm just suggesting that people calm down, slow down and just wait til apple get this up and running. The relaunch of dotmac is nothing major - it's been something neglected in the background for a long time, many people haven't used it's full functionality, many more didn't even bother signing up. The big news is the new iPhone and application store, this is a part of the next chapter for Apple, agreed, but anyone that thinks that there was some simple way to completely avoid any problems such as these has never worked in high end web development. Just go outside for a run, or watch some tv. When it's ready, it's ready.
 
Something to think about..

A watched pot never boils...

Its 12:45 am over here in India. I'm goin to bed.. Gave up on MobileMe..
 
mike12806 said:
Okay, maybe to push the discussion a little past the obvious....

If I currently have a gmail account, what is my easiest way to transition to MobileMe? Forward my gmail account to my mobileme? Help!
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Yes, this is what I'm currently doing. Works like a charm until I can switch all my things over.
 
trekkie604 said:
why are they still letting people log in when the service is still clearly not running properly? Disable the login servers, fix the problem and then re-enable them... That solution would make more sense imo, rather than letting people poke around a broken system.
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Not entirely stable. I'm glad you're here to tell us these things. Chewie! Take the Professor in back and plug him into the hyperdrive!
 
I was signing up when service got down, i wonder if my credit card is charged. I can't login with same credential so i hope, they havn't created my account and its all safe.
 
I'm sorry, but why is everybody complaining? I mean, how many of you actually need MobileMe right now? Seriously, its been only a little more than 12 hours since .mac went down....
 
depaulsunny said:
A watched pot never boils...

Its 12:45 am over here in India. I'm goin to bed.. Gave up on MobileMe..
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I've never understood why certain parts of the world are 30 minutes different in time zones...... it just makes things confusing!:) good night, depaulsunny, it's 12:15 PM here in Washington State
 
djellison said:
The ***** deal is I've paid for a service that has been unavailable all day. An hour or two - that's fine. All day...that's not.

I would expect some form of remuneration for that sort of downtime - perhaps a free month added on to each subscription.
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Its down for a day and you want them to give you an extra month of service?

"My bicycle broke, I think it needs to be replaced with a car."
 
does anybody know yet if mobileme is going to support push for external email accounts (in the same way the blackberry service works for personal accounts - you register an address through the website and it pushes any mail to that address to the mobile device, OR you can have a blackberry.net address), or is it strictly limited to me.com email addresses?
 
Monkenstien said:
I was signing up when service got down, i wonder if my credit card is charged. I can't login with same credential so i hope, they havn't created my account and its all safe.
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You should be fine as long as you didn't see the Verifying Credit Information screen. It happened to me twice earlier, but finally got through this last time.

No charges, until the final one, after i say the verification screen.
 
Take a chill pill...

nelmat said:
So those that couldn't wait, but chose to tinker on their own now have a problem. Maybe next time you'll wait the couple of hours required.

I cannot believe the amount of negative, completely unhelpful criticism this has attracted. So the web transition took a few hours longer than the experts on this forum thought it should? So what? This is a service aimed squarely at the home user for less than £5 a month, not at enterprise or eCommerce (the SLA clearly CLEARLY states this) - there's been a total transition period of less than 24 hours. Where is the disaster? did we hit an iceberg? are we sinking? are existing .mac subscribers being charged extra for this upgrade to an enhanced service? This is completely ridiculous hysteria. Calm down and smell the roses ladies and gentlemen.
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I completely agree with you. Members need to relax...you're all behaving in the typical "American" way...bitchin' and complaining all the way to the bank..i mean, lawsuit. It sounds like you all think that you're entitled to this upgrade...may I ask how many of you actually signed up after the announcement? ...or did you all purchase your subscriptions last year? You're aren't "entitled" to this...it's a freebie from Apple.

However, remember that nothing is free. In this case, the cost is time. Suck it up.

j.
 
nelmat said:
... but anyone that thinks that there was some simple way to completely avoid any problems such as these has never worked in high end web development. Just go outside for a run, or watch some tv. When it's ready, it's ready.
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Why don't you go out for that run, and we'll catch up to you, Mr. high-end web developer. :rolleyes:

STOP being such a blatant Apple apologist. You've been at MR all of 10 days and already you're an expert?

Go for that run.........NOW.
 
Some_Big_Spoon said:
We're paying money for something that's broken, given no alternatives ).Mac is dead), and given no explanation as to what's going on, or when to expect a fix. Some might call it theft, some might call it incompetence. Some others might call it a class action lawsuit, if they don't get their act together soon.
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Please read the terms and conditions that you agreed to when signing up for the service and read the SLA (Service Level Agreement) before posting stuff about legal action, it really doesn't help anyone.

Yes the pages are down... it isn't the end of the world.
 
You pay for the water you use. No water, no use. And if you have a monthly service charge that's associated with municipal water usage, they deduct the number of hours / days that you were without water from the bill, or credit the next payment.

A pay-in-advance service should compensate / credit you for the outage. I wouldn't hold my breath on Apple doing that here.

sanford said:
How about a summation of the snowball fight:
This is more like the muni water company is replacing mains in your area, and they leave a notice on your door that water will be out on Thursday at least six hours, but could run indefinitely longer, circumstances depending.
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Shot22 said:
I'm sorry, but why is everybody complaining? I mean, how many of you actually need MobileMe right now? Seriously, its been only a little more than 12 hours since .mac went down....
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Have you ever taken candy from a baby?

Same principle.
 
apple is not stupid

Apple said that MobileMe will be available with iPhone 2.0. When they release IPhone 2.0 software that's when they lift the lock of MobileMe.

Remember its not FRIDAY YET!:apple:
 
Shot22 said:
I'm sorry, but why is everybody complaining? I mean, how many of you actually need MobileMe right now? Seriously, its been only a little more than 12 hours since .mac went down....
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Do we "need" anything in life?

I don't think "need" comes into it.

You could say some people wont EVER need MobileMe, therefore it would be fine for it to never work.
 
djellison said:
The ***** deal is I've paid for a service that has been unavailable all day. An hour or two - that's fine. All day...that's not.

I would expect some form of remuneration for that sort of downtime - perhaps a free month added on to each subscription.
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Sheesh, you are being very unreasonable, an hour or two for a major system upgrade serving millions of people? It takes longer than that set up Leopard and install all of your apps and get it up and running the way you want it.

Apple may just offer some form of remuneration but if you just wait till things are done before you stick your foot in your mouth...:cool:
 
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