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MobileMe Finally Online?

Actually...

...that makes perfect sense to me.

Your iPhone is your UI. So is www.me.com. The mail server is working, so is the calendar service and so is the contact service. What is NOT working is the www.me.com UI. So if you are on a WORKING UI (iPhone) then you can get to things. If you are on a UI which is DOWN (www.me.com) then you're SOL. :)


tourbus said:
on my iphone i can install the mobileme account for email, cal and contacts. Bt i cannot login in me.com!!!!! Its crazy!
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jmadlena said:
I don't know about you guys, but maybe some of the problems with the brand new MobileMe service are caused by

THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE FLOODING IT AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.

Calm down guys. Don't call MobileMe an 'epic fail' just yet. It obviously isn't up to full capacity, so give it some time.

PS I'm one of those people flooding it, too. :D Haha.
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Hopefully it can handle more than "hundreds of people" logging in at once! :rolleyes:
 
Watabou said:
If you still have .Mac, Go to system preferences and go to .Mac preference pane. There click Learn more on the right. It will tell you it has a new software update for your system and you just download. :)
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No "learn more" anything to click on for me...
 
CJK said:
Although Mobile Me is frustrating the heck out of a lot of us (and yes, I know it will eventually work -- at least for the 90% of the time .Mac did), the App Store is a different story altogether: worked immediately, smooth as silk, visually slick, full of typical Apple goodness!

Sad to say, I've already spent too much on iPhone apps, and I've only had the 2.0 firmware for 6 hours (during most of which I was working!).

-- Chris
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They get more revenue from the App store so go figure. It kinda feels like we got the b or C team on this roll out. After 18 hours, what are they doing re-writing the code?
 
bmk said:
Seriously, if Mobileme can't handle a bunch of geeks from MR trying to access their sites and mail all in one go - we are in real trouble. What do you suggest, we log on one at a time?
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shall we organise a rota? i'd like to check my emails on tuesdays at 10 am (london time).
 
CJK said:
Hopefully it can handle more than "hundreds of people" logging in at once! :rolleyes:
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I didn't want to exaggerate and say thousands when I really don't know how many are. But yeah, a brand new service is usually a little shaky. Deal with it.
 
I asking myself what the problem is?

I think they have performance problems with the database servers. And it seems that not all .mac users are availible for mobileme...
 
Why did they not plan a 24 hours outage, just to be sure that it worked correctly, then putting it on for all of us after? At least we would not have spent the entire day trying to log in to me.com - with the site being on, then off, then on, then slow, off...

It is very un-apple like - certainly an experience I will not forget. I might forgive them tomorrow if it is really online and fast as promised, and up when I need it...
 
Desktop screenshot of the Apple engineers working on MobileMe.

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CJK said:
Hopefully it can handle more than "hundreds of people" logging in at once! :rolleyes:
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Why should I expect a enterprise system to handle "hundreds" of people? Hmmm, maybe we should get a number like at the DMV and wait our turns. How could I have had the expectation that alot of people would want to see it when it is launched? Crazy I know.
 
to be honest i think they r just not ready yet and it has nothing to do with to many ppl trying to get on at once. Its not like the regular apple user even knows yet that "www.me.com" excists ... i think
 
jmadlena said:
I don't know about you guys, but maybe some of the problems with the brand new MobileMe service are caused by

THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE FLOODING IT AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.

Calm down guys. Don't call MobileMe an 'epic fail' just yet. It obviously isn't up to full capacity, so give it some time.

PS I'm one of those people flooding it, too. :D Haha.

EDIT: The MobileMe update even added MobileMe to the .mac dictionary entry. Did not expect them to catch that one. Bravo.
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Please keep in mind that when everybody is on 2.0 and utilizing MobileMe, there will be thousands and thousands of people using the service at any given time. If they can't tolerate a small number of people (compared to the number that will be using it in the next few weeks) then we are really in for a horrible experience.

All at a cool $70-$100 price. Fantastic!
 
bmk said:
What do you suggest, we log on one at a time?
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Or maybe that we wait until Apple says that they have released it and it's actually available for real use. Trying to use it while they are setting it up may lead to issues. Or did I miss the official announcement? It it is like this after release, then I agree with every criticism they get, but not when the problems occur before they say that it is ready.
 
Daveoc64 said:
There's a huge difference between isolated incompatibility issues (and that's what they are, it's down to your configuration at a specific time) and a premium service not working 19 hours after it was supposed to.
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Since when did Apple actually give a firm time on me.com / mobileme being online and fully functional? Even if they actually did - give them a break - if they've got it working by the tomorrow i'd say that was fair enough.
 
soLoredd said:
Please keep in mind that when everybody is on 2.0 and utilizing MobileMe, there will be thousands and thousands of people using the service at any given time. If they can't tolerate a small number of people (compared to the number that will be using it in the next few weeks) then we are really in for a horrible experience.
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Except those people will be using it normally, spread out during the day. What we have now is obsessive Apple freaks hitting the refresh button every five seconds.
 
Watabou said:
If you still have .Mac, Go to system preferences and go to .Mac preference pane. There click Learn more on the right. It will tell you it has a new software update for your system and you just download. :)
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Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately that blindly redirects me to http://www.mac.com/maintenance which... doesn't appear to do much else but impress me with fancy languages I can't quite read. :p No sudden realization on my MacBook's behalf...
 
soLoredd said:
Please keep in mind that when everybody is on 2.0 and utilizing MobileMe, there will be thousands and thousands of people using the service at any given time. If they can't tolerate a small number of people (compared to the number that will be using it in the next few weeks) then we are really in for a horrible experience.

All at a cool $70-$100 price. Fantastic!
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As I've said before, don't confuse the web site with the services...

The WEB SITE is what is mostly down. Most other things like mail etc are working (I am having issues with getting System Preferences to log in, admittedly.)

The services are what will get MILLIONS of access from iPhone users for push services etc. But the UI will be dramatically smaller. After all, the whole point of MobileMe for iPhone users is to get push data onto their phones, so the odds of them logging into me.com are much lower.

Right now, we don't have our iPhone 2.0's so we can't go anywhere else, so we're all pounding away (although admittedly, there aren't THAT many macrumors members to be able to bring it to it's knees surely!)

I suspect it will all be just fine and dandy. Once I have my iPhone 2.0, I will hardly ever use it. I want the "exchange for the rest of us" part, not the "web based tools for the rest of us" part. :)

Edit: Admittedly, a bunch of ticked off iPhone users who can't even SIGN UP is a real possibility right now. :) Once they're signed up they'll be fine though. :)

be well

t
 
t0mat0 said:
Since when did Apple actually give a firm time on me.com / mobileme being online and fully functional? Even if they actually did - give them a break - if they've got it working by the tomorrow i'd say that was fair enough.
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Actually, for at least a week, they have been indicating that the service would be available in the wee hours of this AM Pacific time. There was an official status message on the .Mac home page every day this week.
 
Hell no

I didn't have my iphone's contacts in .mac cause I used Windows contacts, then when i updated my iphone with mobileme everything disappear.:mad:
 
MathiasMag said:
Or maybe that we wait until Apple says that they have released it and it's actually available for real use. Trying to use it while they are setting it up may lead to issues. Or did I miss the official announcement? It it is like this after release, then I agree with every criticism they get, but not when the problems occur before they say that it is ready.
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It's not like we're finding some secret back door and jamming the system. Mobileme is going online for everyone to access - and then it crashes... Although you say there has been no 'official' announcement, the fact is Apple said that dotmac would go down for 6 hours and then Mobileme would be up and working. It still isn't. If people could still access their dotmac accounts, you'd be perfectly justified - but for the last however many hours the system has been down (up, down, up down) way beyond the time frame Apple originally specified. If they just came out and said, 'It won't be working till tomorrow' then we'd all go and do something else.

EDIT: I see from post above that Apple have now acknowledged the delay, which is something at least.
 
bmk said:
Yeah, because there must be millions of us here on Macrumors trying to get on to mobileme and really screwing it up...

Seriously, if Mobileme can't handle a bunch of geeks from MR trying to access their sites and mail all in one go - we are in real trouble. What do you suggest, we log on one at a time?
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CJK said:
Hopefully it can handle more than "hundreds of people" logging in at once! :rolleyes:
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sananda said:
shall we organise a rota? i'd like to check my emails on tuesdays at 10 am (london time).
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soLoredd said:
Please keep in mind that when everybody is on 2.0 and utilizing MobileMe, there will be thousands and thousands of people using the service at any given time. If they can't tolerate a small number of people (compared to the number that will be using it in the next few weeks) then we are really in for a horrible experience.

All at a cool $70-$100 price. Fantastic!
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Have you guys (and everyone else slamming the brand new service) taken into consideration everyone logged into the soon to be replaced .mac service? Sorry, but I think you are all jumping the gun. Jeez, it must be fun being round you lot - is there always this much doom and gloom? LOL

:)

Relax, you'll all live longer.
 
TPALTony said:
As I've said before, don't confuse the web site with the services...

The WEB SITE is what is mostly down. Most other things like mail etc are working (I am having issues with getting System Preferences to log in, admittedly.)

The services are what will get MILLIONS of access from iPhone users for push services etc. But the UI will be dramatically smaller. After all, the whole point of MobileMe for iPhone users is to get push data onto their phones, so the odds of them logging into me.com are much lower.

Right now, we don't have our iPhone 2.0's so we can't go anywhere else, so we're all pounding away (although admittedly, there aren't THAT many macrumors members to be able to bring it to it's knees surely!)

I suspect it will all be just fine and dandy. Once I have my iPhone 2.0, I will hardly ever use it. I want the "exchange for the rest of us" part, not the "web based tools for the rest of us" part. :)

Edit: Admittedly, a bunch of ticked off iPhone users who can't even SIGN UP is a real possibility right now. :) Once they're signed up they'll be fine though. :)

be well

t
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Actually, the services via the iPhone 2.0 interface aren't working either, at least not on mine.
 
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