I haven't found a better replacement for Calendar syncing across multiple devices. I wanted Google calendar to work as well but it just didn't.
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Apple to Offer Free MobileMe Service to Some iOS Users?
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I'm definitely not renewing MobileMe. Although find my iPhone has come in handy a couple of times (when looking for my iPhone around the house while it was in silent mode), it's not worth $99/year (or even half that!). Everything else it offers is done better and for less money (often for free) by others.
So what could I use for all the things in this list:
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Not only useful for syncing, MM also makes clean installs a breeze.
Apple learned the value of being able to wirelessly brick a phone in a real world situation. Steve probably felt it is a security feature that customers deserve considering how easily a phone can be lost. Especially for enterprise. Good reason to buy an iPhone ads and such. He is a kind and noble leader
Going out on whim here, but could the MobileMe service be used for application data saves on iOS devices? This is the most significant use of a cloud based data sync that isn't currently available for iOS.
For what it offers, Mobile Me should be free. I stopped paying for it a year ago because I found it nearly useless. Access from countries outside USA was very often terribly slow or in maybe cases not even possible at all.
I really tried to like it but ended up going for alternative services which work much much better than's - for free or very little money.
I really tried to like it but ended up going for alternative services which work much much better than
's - for free or very little money.I can't believe people pay more than 65 bucks a year for this. I always just buy a copy for that price on Amazon and plug in the code. Comes out to about $5 a month.
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MobileMe calendar syncing keeps the sanity in my household with multiple family members with multiple computers and iDevices. It's the only way my wife and I can keep up with what each other and the 3 kids are doing, and where the conflicts are.
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MobileMe calendar syncing keeps the sanity in my household with multiple family members with multiple computers and iDevices. It's the only way my wife and I can keep up with what each other and the 3 kids are doing, and where the conflicts are.
I've been using mobile me for free for the last two years via the free 60 day trials. Just can't seem to decide if I want to subscribe I guess
Care to share how?
Wow, I have just made arrangements to stop using mobileme and now it looks like they're revamping it. On top of that thanks to this post I found out I don't have to pay nearly as much for it if I do decide to keep it. I think the only thing I use it fore is calendar/contact sync.
60 day trials
Am I the only one who thinks these settings are only to count the number of 60 day free MobileMe trials you have used and then cut you off?
Am I the only one who thinks these settings are only to count the number of 60 day free MobileMe trials you have used and then cut you off?
If the free service is for find-my-iphone and remote-wipe/brick, then devices without cellular+push+GPS and wipe-able file systems (older iPod Touch's maybe?) would not be qualified.
Great advantage of syncing calenders and email etc.. across devices that use mobileme which would be nice to do for free.
What i'm hoping for is that this creates a new payment plan that offers more storage space but at a cheaper $/GB (like $200 a year for at least 100GB of cloud storage)
What i'm hoping for is that this creates a new payment plan that offers more storage space but at a cheaper $/GB (like $200 a year for at least 100GB of cloud storage)
My thoughts exactly. Everyone's misreading Apple's intentions. This finding simply indicates that Apple is planning to gun down on mobileme free 60 day abusers (those of the likes of SAD*FACED*CLOWN).
I've been using mobile me for free for the last two years via the free 60 day trials. Just can't seem to decide if I want to subscribe I guess
Apple learned the value of being able to wirelessly brick a phone in a real world situation. Steve probably felt it is a security feature that customers deserve considering how easily a phone can be lost. Especially for enterprise. Good reason to buy an iPhone ads and such. He is a kind and noble leader
errrr, Enterprise has had the feature to remote wipe an iPhone for a while now.
Honestly, MM isn't really a money maker for Apple, so they probably see it as more valuable to them to just add these services to the feature list for the iPhone, and hopefully sell more iPhones because of it.
They already do, partially, on the back end. If I try to sign in with my apple ID, which is a gmail account, it tells me that my 'account has expired' and directs me to renew it, resulting in an infinite sign-in loop. If I try to sign in, however, with an unrelated email address, it tells me the member name is invalid.
I suspect that they are currently testing apple ID sign-ins for debug users and have to manually set the expiration date on users they want to let sign in.
Now, if you assume, hypothetically, that they are going to give MM away for free, one could assume that the apple ID-based login is because the free accounts will not include email. Let's just hope that, if I drop my paid account, they will have let me link me @me.com sign-in to my apple account so I don't lose anything!
Time machine will save that info for a clean install. Dropbox helps. iTunes can sync the rest when you connect your iOS device. I decided not to renew my MM a few months ago and although it is nice to have i am doing fine without it. Certainly way overpriced. Even after Amazons discount. Find my iPhone was the one thing i would choose to have if they opened the suite up and let you choose to pay for certain functionality individually.
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100% agree. In addition I have not been very impressed by MM so far but keep it hoping it will improve overtime...Not sure what Apple strategy is if they give free service they are also reducing their revenue stream...Does it mean less focus as less investment in the future??