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MobileMe Finally Online?
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No one is accessing it right now - it went down again 40 minutes ago. (but when it was accessible it was www.me.com)
What I find amusing about this is that not only is it grossly inaccurate, but Back To My Mac has arguably been the most poorly implemented piece of .Mac. I really hope MobileMe fix this so that it actually works, although my hopes are very low.
Ok guys... so I emailed sjobs@apple.com....
Here's what I wrote:
"Hello,
I am writing to you to express my disappointment with the migration process to MobileMe. Granted, I m able to access my email via IMAP, but I am not able to sync contacts, idisk, or anything else for that matter between my mac systems. I throught it was perfectly reasonable when I read on the dotmac site that service would go down overnight. Unfortunately, overnight turned into an up and down rollercoaster ride, resulting in a service that went up and down more frequently than a $5 you-know-what. This is unacceptable for a pay premium service. I would expect this from a free service, such as gmail, with which I am writing to you from. I would like to keep this account, but I do beleive that current dotmac users should be compensated in some degree for the inconvenience.
Please Advise,
<name> "
I was responded to, within minutes.... with this:
"I think you can give us a day to get it right."
I dont think he is very happy....
Here's what I wrote:
"Hello,
I am writing to you to express my disappointment with the migration process to MobileMe. Granted, I m able to access my email via IMAP, but I am not able to sync contacts, idisk, or anything else for that matter between my mac systems. I throught it was perfectly reasonable when I read on the dotmac site that service would go down overnight. Unfortunately, overnight turned into an up and down rollercoaster ride, resulting in a service that went up and down more frequently than a $5 you-know-what. This is unacceptable for a pay premium service. I would expect this from a free service, such as gmail, with which I am writing to you from. I would like to keep this account, but I do beleive that current dotmac users should be compensated in some degree for the inconvenience.
Please Advise,
<name> "
I was responded to, within minutes.... with this:
"I think you can give us a day to get it right."
I dont think he is very happy....
You are completely wrong - do a search onthe internet. Look at this report from Computer World:
July 8, 2008 (Computerworld) Apple Inc. will launch its revamped MobileMe online service Wednesday night sometime between 6 p.m. and midnight PDT, the company said in a message posted to the current .Mac site.
"As part of the MobileMe launch, www.mac.com will be taken offline at 6 p.m. PT on Wednesday, July 9th," the message read. "[.Mac] members will be unable to access www.mac.com or any .Mac services during this [maintenance] time with the exception of .Mac Mail accessed via a desktop application, iPhone, or iPod touch."
MobileMe is the replacement for the existing .Mac online sync and data storage service; when introduced last month by Apple executives, it was touted as "Exchange for the rest of us," a reference to the new synchronization features it will offer iPhone users.
"MobileMe will be available as soon as possible during this [Wednesday] maintenance window," Apple said.
I am not saying that there shouldn't or wouldn't be teething problems, but you are denying what is actually happening to say that Apple didn't think the service was going to be up and live on Wednesday. Again, even if you don' think the service has been officially launched, Apple have made a huge cock-up because everyone else thinks Mobileme has been launched - look at all the reports prior to and now after the event - saying what a mess they've made of it. This has been a huge publicity disaster for Apple, whatever you think of people trying to access services that should have been up and running yesterday.
Earlier today I was getting push via 2.0 just fine. I'd been waiting for it to barf and it finally did: emails after 4ish had to be manually fetched.
I'm pretty well convinced that the "cloud" isn't fully up. I've been making edits to calendars, mail, etc. on my mac and not seeing changes reflected in the corresponding iPhone apps in "push" fashion...
Eventually it'll all work.
A developer quoting that a software rollout is a disaster? There's something you don't see every day!
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.
it's only 5:30 PT (which is also Apple time), there's still 6.5 hours of the day left!
The fact that they are just now, this late in the day, putting that up, leads me to think they're still far from getting this fixed. If they were almost there, they wouldn't bother with explanations and apologies at this point.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)
It seems like Apple is having a few server issues. I wonder if this is also what is delaying the official release of the 2.0 firmware update.
It seems like Apple is having a few server issues. I wonder if this is also what is delaying the official release of the 2.0 firmware update.
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Why would you write that email? God, people are the worst. Nation of whiners indeed.
But it went down at 11pm PST
...which would still make estimation wrong
ok, they have 5h30 mins
That or the fact that iTunes 7.7 is crap - I mean its taken almost 20 minutes to back up my iPhone and it has 2 gigs of Data on it. All I wanted to do was sync it...