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Apple Revamps .Mac: Mobile Me Announced

southerndoc said:
Everyone who wants to keep their mac.com email address as is should make sure your voice is heard by Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac/tm.html
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Wow, can't believe how many people won't go look at the Apple website and click on MobileMe first to see that you CAN keep your .Mac email name as well as gain a new .me email address.

I wasn't too happy about this either but I looked up my facts before posting a rant. I think .me is a horribly childish and self centered thing but hey, I get double the space now and can keep my .mac name.
 
I agree

I totally agree with you 100%. I am so absolutely tired of Apple cramming down our throats the iPhone. I could so care less about the %^&*$ iPhone. The iPhone is a toy to attract the younger generation.! I hate that way Apple is going these days.

Achiever said:
I HATE the name and logo and don't need much of the new functionality as I do not have, and have no intention of getting, an iPhone. The change in the service is a great disappointment to users like me (ie no iPhone) as it adds features I have no need for, while still "validating" the consistency in the $99 price. It this doesn't do my basic iDisk syncing faster and more reliably, then it is just 2 steps back with no added value for my needs.

Unfortunately, the iPhone looks to now be an "in-your-face" part of my Mac-using life whether I like it or not. Bad times......

EDIT: Double boo for no public peak at Snow Leopard.
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varscsak said:
The real question for me is, does it work BETTER than .mac. I love the .Mac concept, but it was really spotty...they really need to beef up redundancy and bandwidth to make this a solid product.

Time will tell.

-Lon
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that is my concern as well. Also let's see how well those webapps run on your companies office computer. I'm not sure if we have ie7.

Sync on my.mac account sometimes forgets to sync a mail rule a mailbox a mail and sometimes adresses or calender entries.I can Imagine that will happen over the air much more often.

I know I need safari 3. But do I also need leopard for this?
 
Orng said:
Go get a mac.com free trial account right now, before the possible rush. You'll be automagically updated (cross-dated?) to me.com in july, then you have both.
If you wait, you might not get your preferred username.

That's the closest you'll get to reserving. They'll keep your username for you even if you let the trial expire; at least, they did for dotMac, not sure if they'll change that for me.com

NemusSync Review
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Thanks for this tip. I just registered for .mac trial so I can use the .mac name when it's transferred over to .me :D
 
Great service, looks amazing and I know it could be a godsend in many situations. Good job I've got my .mac name reserved from a free trial a while back.

I hope the price isn't unfairly inflated for the UK, otherwise it will make me think twice...
 
If Apple had introduced it as a service for both home users as well as for businesses and allowed them to use their own domain name like Google Apps, I have a feeling they'd have additional interest. They're poising the iPhone as an Enterprise device and introducing all sorts of syncing capabilities with hosted services, but nothing for small businesses.
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If apple let me use my own domain name for the email addresses (user@example.com, user2@example.com) and web galleries from iphoto (example.com) I'd be all over this.

I love my Mac, and want to get an iphone. I like the idea of OTA syncing and all the push stuff, but I'm not changing my email address. I think apple's galleries look way better than what I upload, but I'm not uploading to the me.com URL.

Doesn't seem like it would be that hard for them to offer basic domain hosting (register one .com domain, use that for your email and web address).

I think they'd get a lot of switchers like me, who think the rest of their family could use the apple services a lot better than the roll-your-own stuff that's out there (I suffice with that stuff now, but it's impossible for my family to use that stuff).
 
Looks good overall, but I'll second the thought that Apple didn't address SHARING calendars/contacts at all. We'll need to see the final product to be sure, but there's not a WORD about being able to share and mutually edit calendars with other accounts.

I'd really like this tool to work well, but for me, it's not just about MY calendar, it's about my wife's, the office Google calendar, etc.

I know it's a new product, with all kinds of work remaining to be done, but the ability to share and edit data with/from other users in some kind of controlled way, like Google Calendar, is huge, and there's no indication from Apple that I can access anything other than my own account data.
 
That's ok....

The future will just steamroller right on over you, then!

The iPhone is actually a critical piece of the "computing puzzle" today. If you have no need for a digitally-connected cellphone yourself, that's fine. A number of people still claim they have absolutely no use for a portable notebook computer either. It doesn't invalidate the concept itself, though.

Disregarding it as a "toy" just shows you have MUCH less vision than Apple does on what this type of device brings to the table for people.

Look at it this way: Many millions of people happily paid as much as $600-800 each for pocket computer/PDA devices (everything from PalmPilot organizers to Dell and Compaq PDAs running "Windows Mobile"). Why? Because they saw value in the ability to carry around a device that fit in a coat pocket or purse that was able to connect to wireless networks, download and work with data synchronized from a regular computer, and provide a way to input small amounts of data on the go. The iPhone is FAR beyond that basic concept, since it integrates all of that with a cellphone/video player/GPS/camera/iPod, and now, is starting to implement "Enterprise type" wireless synchronization of content from Exchange mail servers.

I think Apple and I both agree that the future of computing is one where a "primary" computer is back at someone's home or office, but they also want real-time connectivity to the content created/edited/received by that main system, even when they're out and about. When you need to take "the whole kitchen sink" with you, a notebook computer does the job. But nobody I know actually lugs their laptop around with them all day long, every place they go. Many, many, many people do carry a cellphone around all the time though. So integrating all of this with the phone is the most logical merger possible.'


aprilfools said:
I totally agree with you 100%. I am so absolutely tired of Apple cramming down our throats the iPhone. I could so care less about the %^&*$ iPhone. The iPhone is a toy to attract the younger generation.! I hate that way Apple is going these days.
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does anyone see the resemblance? :p
 
Orng said:
Seriously, try Nemus Sync on your jailbroken iPod Touch to sync your Google calendars (both ways) OTA without having to wait for july for MobileMe. You won't be disappointed.

Until a week or two ago i was synching Google cal to iCal then to my Touch, like you, but Nemus is way better for now. MobileMe might be better still, but give Nemus a go for the next month or so.

edit: NemusSync Review
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That's baddass. I'm going to install it when I get home...or to a wi-fi location.
 
has anyone read anything about mail rules? I'm talking about like in mail where you can have mail process messages into folders, add colours etc... will this be do-able in mobile me's cloud? or will my emails have to come in to my mac first, get processed, and then pushed out from there. This is a pain if true as it means if my mac is not on (where the rules are applied) and I get a new email via my ipod touch/iphone, it will not be processed.

p.s. anyone else from the UK watched the mobile me guided tour and remembered that americans can't pronounce mobile! there's an "e" on the end - honest - go and check! it's not mobil!
 
Deanster said:
I'd really like this tool to work well, but for me, it's not just about MY calendar, it's about my wife's, the office Google calendar, etc.
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It would be great if apple added this feature as well. My wife and I "share" calendars by sending each other appointments (usually just a reminder of something the other is doing). But being able to publish/subscribe to a shared calendar would totally work better than that.

I think being able to use your own domain name would open a huge floodgate of people switching to this service (esp. small and medium businesses using their new Macs these days)...

Then adding other features like calendar/contact sharing would be the icing...
 
This is retarded! All of these push and cloud services should be available free with any iPhone/ATT contract. These are tools that should be center to the iPhone. And does anyone else think .me is the most pretentious and horribly named domain ever?

Hi Sir, can I have your email address please?
Yes, it is blahblah@me.com
me?
yeh, I know, it's stupid.

Waste of 99 bucks (since these features should be available to all), but at least they give you the option of using .me or .mac.
 
does Gmail support push email? i have a friend who gets his gmail pushed to his blackberry but i dont know if he routes it through an exchange address. It would suck shelling out cash for the new iphone and being stuck with IMAP or paying 99 bucks to forward my gmail to @me
 
Mobile Me what a joke! I am a veteran Mac user and would never waste my money on this junk or .Mac what a watse of $100 per year! what a joke!
 
dwl017 said:
Mobile Me what a joke! I am a veteran Mac user and would never waste my money on this junk or .Mac what a watse of $100 per year! what a joke!
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Mobile Me is meant to compliment the iPhone, so if you don't want it I understand.
 
xenotaku said:
This is retarded! All of these push and cloud services should be available free with any iPhone/ATT contract. These are tools that should be center to the iPhone. And does anyone else think .me is the most pretentious and horribly named domain ever?

Hi Sir, can I have your email address please?
Yes, it is blahblah@me.com
me?
yeh, I know, it's stupid.

Waste of 99 bucks (since these features should be available to all), but at least they give you the option of using .me or .mac.
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Its great for 15 year old little girls .... Cindy@me.com Britney@me.com etc.. I think you get my point, what a watse of money for a grown man!
 
Looks great, but the logo looks like something out of a diaper/toiletpaper/tampon advertisement.
 
Heh, I remember when it was called iTools...

Perhaps this is a push towards a 'social networking' type of thing.

Either way, the push/exchange way of doing things is much better imho. My work email, calendars and contacts are synced perfectly no matter where I view them (work computer, home computer, web interface...)

I use pop for my gmail on my Mac, but I check it via the web at work, but there are always inconsistencies between my Mac and what's on the web.

Knowing I'll see the same thing no matter where I view my mail, contacts, or calendars is somewhat important and convenient. I wish there were a free way to do this without having to setup your own email server, but I know of no other way. I'm not too familiar with this field, so there may be something, but I certainly haven't heard of it.
 
jcricket said:
It would be great if apple added this feature as well. My wife and I "share" calendars by sending each other appointments (usually just a reminder of something the other is doing). But being able to publish/subscribe to a shared calendar would totally work better than that.

I think being able to use your own domain name would open a huge floodgate of people switching to this service (esp. small and medium businesses using their new Macs these days)...

Then adding other features like calendar/contact sharing would be the icing...
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Yeah that dissappointed me too. I'm looking to offload my home server maybe to something external and thought this would be good - but having to change all my emails addresses is not an option, and paying multiple times for each email we use in this house is also not an option (I need 7 currently, but would probably get 10 for future use) - was looking for something where I could set an MX and let apple handle it, just like the way gmail works. $99 (actually in the UK $125 at least) for a single unchangable email address is just extortion.
 
jat543 said:
does Gmail support push email? i have a friend who gets his gmail pushed to his blackberry but i dont know if he routes it through an exchange address. It would suck shelling out cash for the new iphone and being stuck with IMAP or paying 99 bucks to forward my gmail to @me
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I'm in the same position. Does anyone know if just setting up an iPhone with your gmail account would give you push email?

If it doesn't I guess a way around it would be to forward your gmail to a Me account, but it's a pricey solution.

Any info on this appreciated.
 
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