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Apple to Launch MobileMe Enhancements: Push Web-Based Mail, Universal 'Find My iPhone' iOS Application, and More

smorris said:
I've seen several similar comments. Do you know that Mobile Me's predecessor Mac.com was free for the first two or three years, then one year at half price, before raising to the current $99? So I doubt they'll drop it back to free as they have no problem getting $99 for it from most Mac users that I personally know.
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A lot of Mac users don't have any problems shelling money out on any product with an Apple logo on it.

Fact is that today's Apple is a little different than yesterday's Apple. Once you start bringing in masses of people who buy a relatively affordable product like an iPod touch or even an iPhone, then you're bringing in a whole new customer base that Apple didn't use to attract before those devices came out. That is the significance of the market share Apple has been munching on since iPhone came out.

Apple has to be aware of this... and then again, they don't have to. People still spend the money anyway. It's just funny to me to see the faithful Apple fans feel neglected because Apple is trying to gain as much ground on market share. You see them complain because the Macs aren't getting updated, the MacBooks are not getting updated, the Mini's aren't getting updated... you get the drift.
 
What a bunch of freeloaders!

Free...free...free...free...free....free!!

What a bunch of whining cheapskates.

NOTHING in life is "free". You are "paying" for that "free" gmail...Google is snooping up your butt and recording everything you write and receive.

Those other "free" "work arounds" are just that. You have to work to make them acceptable. No seamlessness.....just a bunch of cheap crap.

You get what you pay for in this world.


I'm a salesman on the road, and the extreme reliability (yes...reliability....I have never had mobil me mess up) and it's "it just works" ease of use, especially with the syncing and iDisk features is invaluable to me. My family plan of $150 per year is a BARGAIN!! I would pay $1000.

Stop your skin flint bellyaching!!
 
nlr said:
I don't see how "find my phone" is useful on mobileme, it only states the area your phone is in which is a quite a large place.. and it isn't very specific so I doubt I can find it if I did lose it but I guess its better having an idea than not knowing at all.
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Search YouTube for vuds of guys tracking their phones. It may not be perfect but it's way cooler than nothing.
 
HiRez said:
Except if they have a way to block the access from WiFi and cel towers (and with AT&T, let's face it, this is not hard), you wouldn't be able to get to it to wipe it remotely.

And yes, having a dead phone is the whole idea, although it would suck if you let someone play with it for a minute and they bricked your phone. But, you should be able to restore from backup up to the last point you synced in iTunes. I'm not sure if after a remote wipe there's some mechanism that prevents it from being used at all until the owner verifies himself, or if you just get a clean phone that could be registered and used (maybe with a different SIM card)?
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Thanks for the reply. In practice, most people who pick up an unattended iPhone would not try to block cell tower or WiFi access, would they? Perhaps a devious thief, no?

Anyway, I have used FindMyPhone twice. Once it was left at a visited office. I couldn't tell from the map if it was in the parking lot or in the building. I sent messages to no avail. The next morning when I returned, it was on the armrest of where I was sitting. The other time my phone was in the house with the ringer turned off. I sent the tone and quickly found it. I was just thinking the 10-kill option would be, well, overkill.
 
MobileMe is worthless. I'll get it, if it becomes free. Apple has really failed in this department...bring on the server farm and some innovation in this arena!
 
I really like that at the bottom as I was reading all these posts there was an add for google saying 99.99% up time. Sure it was for google apps and not for gmail, but man, they couldn't said it better.

I got mobileme back when it was hard to sync your calendar and contacts across phones and computers otherwise... it was constantly failing when I needed it, the email would always go down when I was counting on it for something, or the calendar sync would stop working until tech support reset a bunch of server side things.

I have to commend apple though. Mobileme mail and idisk are complete garbage, syncing and galleries can be done free via other services, and find my phone is really not worth $100 on its own... and yet I still pay for it. How can I be mad at Apple when they so clearly win this round?
 
Very true ....

Ultimately, this is why I bought Macs in the first place, and switched away from Windows machines. Sure, it's cheaper to stick with Windows, but you really do get what you pay for. Better support after the sale, and a local retail store dedicated to selling just the computer products of the type you bought, a better looking and more efficient case design, a superior OS based on a Unix platform, and some of the best apps in the industry for things like video editing or web design.

I'm not saying MobileME is worth the money to EVERYONE, but simply that it's a good value for many Mac users and integrates a lot of things you'd have to sign up for from all different places otherwise, and STILL not have the close tie-in with OS X that you get with MobileME.

The Internet is full of "free services", and many are pretty good. But in the end, ALL of them are costing somebody time and money to provide them to you - so you better believe they have a hidden motive to keep doing it! Sometimes, it's as simple as a person burning through money initially with the idea that once they get a "critical number" of people hooked, they can change to a paid model and keep a lot of subscribers. Other times, it's related to data-mining and reselling your personal info. You never know ... but it's not really a "free lunch" in the long run.


notacon said:
Free...free...free...free...free....free!!

What a bunch of whining cheapskates.

NOTHING in life is "free". You are "paying" for that "free" gmail...Google is snooping up your butt and recording everything you write and receive.

Those other "free" "work arounds" are just that. You have to work to make them acceptable. No seamlessness.....just a bunch of cheap crap.

You get what you pay for in this world.


I'm a salesman on the road, and the extreme reliability (yes...reliability....I have never had mobil me mess up) and it's "it just works" ease of use, especially with the syncing and iDisk features is invaluable to me. My family plan of $150 per year is a BARGAIN!! I would pay $1000.

Stop your skin flint bellyaching!!
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The MobileMe mail beta doesn't seem to support the BCC: field. :confused:

Hopefully they'll get that worked out before they go live with it...
 
I don't want it free.

Make MobileMe better, especially iDisk but keep it a "you want it, you pay for it service". There are enough "free" services that are choke full of advertising and also privacy issues.

The biggest feature I would like to see added is a way to do email with an individual's domain. I want IMAP email so everything stays in sync and MM works great for me in that area. However, I have a professional email address tied to a domain that I would like to use to point to a MM account and also show in reply email.
 
bobt said:
The biggest feature I would like to see added is a way to do email with an individual's domain. I want IMAP email so everything stays in sync and MM works great for me in that area. However, I have a professional email address tied to a domain that I would like to use to point to a MM account and also show in reply email.
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+1,000,000
 
djalice said:
'Findmyiphone' needs to be a web app that can work from any device not just iOS devices. If I lose my iPhone the chances of getting it back diminish as time goes by. If I'm alone without another iOS device, Tuff. If I'm with someone else, the chances are against them having an iOS device. The chances of being with someone with a web capable device is quite likely. Within seconds you could login to www.findmyiphone.com (or whatever) and be on the case. Why is this not possible?
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It is possible and that is how it works now.

If you can't find your iPhone, you login to MobileMe and activate the find my iPhone service and view it's location and or send it commands right through your browser.

From what I understand, the new app is just an idevice optimized application that makes it even easier from another idevice.
 
I wish they would have free accounts, even if offering much with less storage. I want email at MobileMe for free at least..
 
Don't know if this has been mentioned before.....

It would be cool (with Find My iPhone) if you could have the iPhone 4's front facing camera secretly snap a picture of the user/thief the next time the phone is operated and send it to you.
 
I'm not sure why more people don't see the usefulness of the "Find My iPhone" feature in an iOS app. As others have stated, one can have more than one i-device. My wife and I each have iPhones, and it has happened on more than one occasion that one of us can't immediately locate our iPhone.

Currently, you have to go on a computer in order to do "Find my iPhone". Now it should be possible to do this from another iPhone (or other i-device), which is a heck of a lot more useful when you're out and about than having to find a computer and log in.

I'm not saying it will be useful for everyone, nor that there aren't other features that Apple could be focusing on, but there definitely will be people who would benefit from having this feature.
 
> linking email to your domain

> allowing front facing camera on iP4 to take pics or even video remotely

> improve speed of iDisk (dropbox is MUCH snappier)

if they get the above right, i would be a very happy customer. as it is MM is alright but falls way below Apple's standards.
 
ronaldcastillo said:
Just purchased MobileMe on Tuesday from Amazon.com. Should be receiving it Saturday, if not Sunday. Can't wait.
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kthnxshwn said:
It's down, but if you want a code, I bought one for 40 off eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-MobileMe-...geNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ht_500wt_1154
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How does this work? I looked an Amazon and only saw 2009 edition? is it just a code I enter in to activate MobileMe (i'm using the trail version right now but I actually am considering paying for it. Sadly for nothing else but the synchronizing my macbook and iphone together. The rest is nice extras). And would it work if it is the "2009 edition"? That's the latest Amazon seems to list.
 
coolfactor said:
I have both. Several Gmail accounts and a MobileMe account. All of them serve their purpose perfectly for me.
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I have one Gmail account and a MobileMe account and for what little I use them both for they've been perfect.

I think I'd be completely lost if I had my write out the calendars seperately and having it sync to 3 devices. Amongst other various little things that I think have been worthwhile.
 
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