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Apple Starting to Restore MobileMe Email Access, Some Email Lost

satcomer said:
You need to calm down. I was talking from the marketing view. You seem to not have read Walt Mossberg's Apple's MobileMe far too Flawed to be Reliable and David Pogue's Apple's MobileMess. These two are Apple's two biggest cheerleaders blasting Apple's problems. The do nothing wrong Apple (in some MacRumors eyes) perception is going down fast and it will hurt future sales! The honeymoon Apple has enjoyed the past few years seems to be over.
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If I read your post don't you think I would have read Pogue and Mossberg's articles as well?
Mossberg's recent article is silly and just wrong in some places. And Pogue is a comedian.
You; are just wrong.
Nobody outside this small community of computer zealots cares. Or even knows.
You have lost perspective.
And how can the honeymoon be over when they have 2-3 times the sales for the iPhone 3g in the US then they did for the first iPhone?
Not to mention; iTunes blockbuster success, apps store, movie rentals and sales, macs climbing up the percentage polls, etc., etc., etc.
The numbers don't agree with your doom and gloom projections.
The honeymoon is just starting.

Anyone who is not going to get Mobile me or the iPhone due to a small percentage of user issues during transition is a loser.
For most everyone I know it has has been great and it just seems to get faster and less buggy every few days.
Cloud storage, OSX integration, syncing four computers and my iPhone and an extra email address (which I don't really need) is
worth much more than the small yearly charge. Push has worked great for me and it will obviously just get better.
And if you use it in business, then it's a write off.
 
Anyone else's data syncing break today?

Throughout this entire MobileMe rollout debacle, the only part of MobileMe that I really use and rely on-- the syncing of my Safari bookmarks, Address Book and iCal-- has worked flawlessly... until today.

Suddenly this afternoon my desktop machine acted like it was doing its first sync. I canceled the operation, saved backup copies of the stuff I sync (to be safe), and then told it to replace the local stuff with the stuff from MobileMe.

I was very grateful I made those backups. It duplicated all of my contacts, and deleted all of my iCal info. I cancelled the remainder of the syncing and restored from backup, and then later when I was using my laptop it too acted like the sync data had been reset.

I cancelled that sync and then turned off syncing on both machines until I find out what's going on.

Did anyone else's syncing suddenly start acting up today?

~Philly
 
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robbyx said:
What troubles me about the MobileMe fiasco, both as a long-time customer and shareholder, is how woefully unprepared Apple seems to have been for this launch. I wonder if this is the first chink in the armor. Apple has been on a roll since NeXT took over and I wonder if they're a bit full of themselves these days. The fact that it is taking SO long to get things working is very troublesome. And the fact that their servers couldn't handle the load isn't exactly an advertisement for OS X Server's ability to scale.

I think it's a much bigger mess than they're admitting and it really bums me out to see Apple, always a stickler for quality, release such an untested product. Bottom line, Apple rushed all this stuff to market. iPhone 2.0 software is slow and buggy (I can't stand how bad the key lag is in SMS) and MobileMe obviously wasn't close to being ready.

And I don't think a bizarrely worded, anonymous "status" update makes up for the headaches...two weeks later. Apple's cult of secrecy and inability to communicate with customers is getting ridiculous. Steve is definitely a visionary, but drop the paranoia already. You run a company with millions of customers who pay a premium. We don't deserve to have half-baked products foisted upon us (especially when the product being upgraded actually worked!) and we certainly don't deserve to be kept in the dark.
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The real problem was that Apple tried to release too many products at once. Plain and simple. A lot of the ( most ) problems would have been avoided if it would have been stretched over a few weeks or so.

First release MobileMe --> Give a week or maybe even two for things to settle in --> Release the iPhone 3G --> Wait a week for the activations and any unforeseen problems. Maybe even two depending on sales --> Finally let the rest of the iPhone / iPod touch owners get version 2.0.

Considering all of the time people have had to wait for things to work as planned anyway, I think, customers would have been happier to wait that amount of time but get the properly working product on release.
 
Anybody who has been using .Mac shouldn't be surprised, it sucked so hard at times that I really wondered how they (Apple) dared to promote MobileMe so much.
 
No problems here

I've read a lot of the comments on this thread and feel for a lot of the people who lost stuff. But I must say the whole thing has worked flawlessly for me since the launch I have been able to sync my calendar across 4 macs and my iphone, the email has had no outage and all in all has been a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I for one am happy to renew my subscription to this and already feel that the money I have paid for this service has been fully justified.

And so noone has a go at me. I am not a mac fanboy who is clouded by all things apple, they do have there faults I have just found them to be smaller than everyone else's
 
iJaz said:
Anybody who has been using .Mac shouldn't be surprised, it sucked so hard at times that I really wondered how they (Apple) dared to promote MobileMe so much.
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That's exactly what I tried to tell everybody but the poo-poohed me. The old .mac was so unreliable for me that I could not see how in the world Apple thought they could do this and expect any kind of good results from it.
 
Apple informercial at 3AM:
"For limited time only. We're offering a chance for you to loose 10% of your e-mails for only a fee of $99 for your first year!"

At this rate, if they keep degrading and not testing their products, they'll evetually settle down to the 3AM infomercial slot.
 
megfilmworks said:
If I read your post don't you think I would have read Pogue and Mossberg's articles as well?
Mossberg's recent article is silly and just wrong in some places. And Pogue is a comedian.
You; are just wrong.
Nobody outside this small community of computer zealots cares. Or even knows.
You have lost perspective.
And how can the honeymoon be over when they have 2-3 times the sales for the iPhone 3g in the US then they did for the first iPhone?
Not to mention; iTunes blockbuster success, apps store, movie rentals and sales, macs climbing up the percentage polls, etc., etc., etc.
The numbers don't agree with your doom and gloom projections.
The honeymoon is just starting.

Anyone who is not going to get Mobile me or the iPhone due to a small percentage of user issues during transition is a loser.
For most everyone I know it has has been great and it just seems to get faster and less buggy every few days.
Cloud storage, OSX integration, syncing four computers and my iPhone and an extra email address (which I don't really need) is
worth much more than the small yearly charge. Push has worked great for me and it will obviously just get better.
And if you use it in business, then it's a write off.
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Yea thats how I felt until this morning when e-mail suddenly went OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now what? Hmm?

I'm losing business by the minute. If I lose e-mail from the weekend because of this, I'm going to have to sue Apple; I won't have a choice because I'll lose my job.

9 Am Monday morning = worst time possible for e-mail outage.
 
iNfowarrior said:
Yea thats how I felt until this morning when e-mail suddenly went OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now what? Hmm?

I'm losing business by the minute. If I lose e-mail from the weekend because of this, I'm going to have to sue Apple; I won't have a choice because I'll lose my job.

9 Am Monday morning = worst time possible for e-mail outage.
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It appears that it is "sort" of working. New emails get pushed through OK but they don't get deleted from my computer till a new email arrives.
 
iNfowarrior said:
Yea thats how I felt until this morning when e-mail suddenly went OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now what? Hmm?

I'm losing business by the minute. If I lose e-mail from the weekend because of this, I'm going to have to sue Apple; I won't have a choice because I'll lose my job.

9 Am Monday morning = worst time possible for e-mail outage.
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That seems to be the general feeling

Most don't care about the MobileMe problems and want everyone that is having problems to shut up

That is, until they have problems and want to complain :D
 
What is it with people who feel they have to defend Apple when they screw up? Just because it's working for you and your "friends" doesn't necessarily mean it's working for everyone, so telling people to stop complaining is obnoxious at the least. Nothing pisses me off more. :mad:
 
mobilehavoc said:
What is it with people who feel they have to defend Apple when they screw up? Just because it's working for you and your "friends" doesn't necessarily mean it's working for everyone, so telling people to stop complaining is obnoxious at the least. Nothing pisses me off more. :mad:
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Seriously. The fanboys are working overtime on this one lol. Classic!
 
megfilmworks said:
Anyone who is not going to get Mobile me or the iPhone due to a small percentage of user issues during transition is a loser.
For most everyone I know it has has been great and it just seems to get faster and less buggy every few days.
Cloud storage, OSX integration, syncing four computers and my iPhone and an extra email address (which I don't really need) is
worth much more than the small yearly charge. Push has worked great for me and it will obviously just get better.
And if you use it in business, then it's a write off.
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Yeah we're losers because we can lose email or not receive it and get fired because of Apple's failure to deliver on promises :rolleyes:

Clearly you do not work in an industry where timely and reliable transfer of information can mean everything or else you wouldn't be saying such things :mad:
 
exboroboy said:
I've read a lot of the comments on this thread and feel for a lot of the people who lost stuff. But I must say the whole thing has worked flawlessly for me since the launch I have been able to sync my calendar across 4 macs and my iphone, the email has had no outage and all in all has been a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I for one am happy to renew my subscription to this and already feel that the money I have paid for this service has been fully justified.

And so noone has a go at me. I am not a mac fanboy who is clouded by all things apple, they do have there faults I have just found them to be smaller than everyone else's
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I've had a family account for a long time and It's not working for me.

I'm an Exchange Admin for a Large Gvt Agency, I could have done better...
 
Calendar and Address Book syncing is broken for me right now. Was working fine until today. When I try and load either from me.com - they both hang while loading data.

Seems the fixes are making things worse.
 
dissdnt said:
1% ain't bad hehe.
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It is if you are one of them.

I just paid money to keep my .mac account without knowing (or caring) about the Mobile Me thing (and seriously the worst name in the world, remind anyone else of "Magical Me" one of the silly books written by the dopier defence against the dark arts tutor in an early Harry Potter book?) and all it's done so far is screw up my email.

Thank god I had only just started using it as my main address for work and most people still use the old one. No way I'm going to use it now.
 
Address Book Syncing

Is anybody having trouble syncing address book?? Mine worked fine until 2 hrs ago....all my contacts have been removed from my phone!!
 
The Monkey said:
What kind of business do you work in where iPhone/MobileMe would be an acceptable mobile solution? In a real corporate environment it would be a joke.
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I know of several very large and big-time law firms that are now using iPhone/MobileMe, one of which just started in the last few weeks issuing 3G iPhones and MM accounts

All are happy from what I have been told and they were not effected by the MM problems
 
I received an email from the MobileMe team on 7/16 stating that they were having problems with the conversion to MobileMe and that I would receive a 30-day extension. I have not seen any change in my status; my account will expire in 12 days unless they cough up. Perhaps another 30 days would give them time to get things working better, but I may not have that chance if they don't do something soon. Has anybody else seen their expiration date extended yet?
 
danny_w said:
I received an email from the MobileMe team on 7/16 stating that they were having problems with the conversion to MobileMe and that I would receive a 30-day extension. I have not seen any change in my status; my account will expire in 12 days unless they cough up. Perhaps another 30 days would give them time to get things working better, but I may not have that chance if they don't do something soon. Has anybody else seen their expiration date extended yet?
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I have. I go to my account settings on MobileMe and my 30-day extension is found on it as it expires late October I believe
 
ahmedrah said:
Is anybody having trouble syncing address book?? Mine worked fine until 2 hrs ago....all my contacts have been removed from my phone!!
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Yeah. My contacts weren't removed from my phone, but all of the phone numbers for my contacts were. Crazy + irritating. I turned of syncing on the iPhone and then turned it back on and it restored all contacts back to 100% normal.

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/28/mobileme-the-case-of-the-vanishing-iphone-contacts/

OrleansMac said:
I know of several very large and big-time law firms that are now using iPhone/MobileMe, one of which just started in the last few weeks issuing 3G iPhones and MM accounts

All are happy from what I have been told and they were not effected by the MM problems
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That's cool. I'm just surprised that a large company wouldn't have already had an Exchange server in the first place. Weird to be sending out emails ending at @me.com (or @mac.com) vs. @verylargeandbigtimelawfirm.com.
 
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