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MobileMe Finally Online?

Thats it.

You can only use the service when there is a cloud above you.

Quick, everybody play Final Fantasy VII again!
 
CJK said:
Serious question: are any of you able to (RIGHT NOW) access your mac.com email via IMAP? I have been unable to do so all day.

-- Chris
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Sure. There has been no time I couldn't get .mac. mail on my desktop.
 
Billy Boo Bob said:
Jeez. They haven't even announced that it's ready yet... Just people jumping the gun and trying it out on their own... You should wait until they announce at Apple.com that me.com is actually ready to use before passing judgement like this.
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I'm fine with not being able to use MobilMe yet. There's no rush for me to get the new bits. But I do have a problem with being unable to authenticate and get access to my iDisk all day. Authentication, mail and storage access should have high availability. Downtime for all day is a problem. Maybe they should have started a week ago and made the rollout incremental.
 
bugfaceuk said:
1600? LUXURY! We used to use two tin-cans connected by a wet piece of string. We had to hold it to our ears and make the right squeeky noises at our end while our father beat us with cricket bats.
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Tins cans? Absolute luxury! We used to have wet paper bags and one thread from a piece of string.... But we lived in the bottom of the lake...
 
bugfaceuk said:
1600? LUXURY! We used to use two tin-cans connected by a wet piece of string. We had to hold it to our ears and make the right squeeky noises at our end while our father beat us with cricket bats.
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we used to dream of being beaten with cricket bats.
 
gerrynjr said:
I wrote that email because I expect a certain level of service from pay for products... If I do not get that service, I, as a consumer, have a right to complain.


I'm also a software developer and IT Sysadmin by trade. I know what testing is convolve in production applications and services. I know what sort of fall backs should be in place in the event a migration does not pan out as expected. At the very least, MobileMe should have remained offline with a note, as the www.mac.com site has. Having a site go up and down as it has shows lack of maturity in a product and weakness. Very un-apple like.

Needless to say, this sort of migration speaks volumes about how rushed this was to production.
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Could you please list at least one public service you have architected that has more than 500,000 subscribers? Ideally something on the web that is available in multiple contries and provides multiple interfaces (IMAP, Chat, WebDAV, etc).

Unless of course, you don't actually have the faintest idea about projects of this scale, or any understanding of just how difficult it is to roll out these services.

Basically there are two choices, gMail Beta for (how many years now?) or switch and a lot of pain for a while.
 
boo hoo

everyone, stop whining. be patient. the few glimpses we've had inside me.com have been awesome - I can't wait for them to get the teething problems over with so we can get in and play.

give them a break - its gonna rock, and I'd rather have them take a little extra time to get it right than open the floodgates with a stuck-together-with-gaffer-tape *cough*windows*cough* solution that they'll forever be patching in the weeks to come.

i'm as miffed as anyone not being able to get to my web-based mail from work right now, but come on, it'll only be a day (or two) and you WILL live.

put it into perspective, sit back, chill out, read a book, hit refresh every now and then, wait, eat, breathe.
 
gerrynjr said:
I wrote that email because I expect a certain level of service from pay for products... If I do not get that service, I, as a consumer, have a right to complain.


I'm also a software developer and IT Sysadmin by trade. I know what testing is involved in production applications and services. I know what sort of fall backs should be in place in the event a migration does not pan out as expected. At the very least, MobileMe should have remained offline with a note, as the www.mac.com site has. Having a site go up and down as it has shows lack of maturity in a product and weakness. Very un-apple like.

Needless to say, this sort of migration speaks volumes about how rushed this was to production.
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Learn to be more professional. They certainly won't take your letter seriously writing stuff like "up and down like a $5 you know what?" Get real.
 
Fulgham said:
Wow ... you really are a dick
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Nah, it's all in good fun :cool: Reminds me of the iPhone 1.0 days and price dropping...

Nothing you cant toss together with a quick screenshot of gmail and some copy-paste :cool:


From what I did see of mobileme, it's quite the impressive web app. Certainly feels like more of a desktop application, and I'm not all that surprised they've hit some snags with all the features and all.
 
locked out

I've been a .Mac member for several years, but today, I can't log on. My .Mac System Preference Pane refuses my account name or password, but I know I put them in correctly. Anyone else seeing this?

Tom
 
Fulgham said:
Wow ... you really are a dick
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It's probably not Steve Jobs. More than likely it gets passed on to a complaints desk.

Still, the arrogance of people who would bother the CEO when Apple employs people to respond to customer complaints is breathtaking (and these employees will probably have a better idea of what is happening than the CEO).

I guess that's the "me" society for you.
 
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