'MobileMe iDisk' Updated With iPad and Multitasking Support, 'iMovie' for iPhone 4 Receives Bug Fixes

[HiRez]

Being able to play music in the background from iDisk is pretty big.

That's one big feature it has over Dropbox, now. I pretty much prefer Dropbox over iDisk for every reason, but that's finally one point back in iDisk's favor.

Yeah, I'm glad to have this app, it's a good thing, but the music thing is still not enough for me. I happen to have both iDisk (Mobile Me) and Dropbox and Dropbox is far, far better at what it does. Places where iDisk needs to catch up and improve:

-- Still very slow and syncing doesn't happen immediately when a file is changed, as with Dropbox, and with no feedback as to which files are synced or in the process of syncing.

-- Very unreliable syncs. I use iDisk with 4 Macs, Leopard and Snow Leopard, and all have problems. I particularly love the extremely helpful messages such as 'Last sync failed' and 'Unknown error, please try again later'.

-- Can't individually password protect folders. You can either protect the whole thing or nothing, but that's it. Which makes it useless for sharing files with clients.

-- Does not keep a change history of each file so you can't revert to previous versions.

 

[HiRez]

It's good and all, but unless iWork on iPad can actually save on to iDisk or Dropbox there's almost no merit.

This is a huge problem, but really a larger issue of iOS filesystem access not being thought through very well. All the syncing through tethered iTunes, emailing, importing/exporting workarounds are horrible and about as far from It Just Works™ as you can get.

 

[bigjohn]

How about this Apple? I'm happy to keep printer drivers on my iDisk and then my iPad can use whatever it needs from there to print to a printer on a wireless network. It's genius! (now make it happen)

 

[Flyinsquirrel]

BECAUSE OTHER CUSTOMERS LIVES OUTSIDE AMERICA TOO.

Oh yeah, I forgot how much $5 is in Zimbabwe Dollars

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Oh snap, so now the only really usable file system for the iPad costs an additional $99/year?

 

[AC Rempt]

It's good and all, but unless iWork on iPad can actually save on to iDisk or Dropbox there's almost no merit.

QFT! So what am I supposed to do when I'm done working on the document? Email it to my desktop machine, so I can reload it onto my iDisk? Dumb.

 

[ECOCIDE]

iPod interface

Am I missing something? Is there a way to download audio or interface with the iPod app? Is there at least a way to play continuing tracks from iDisk?

 

[theBigD23]

I still hope that I can open a document in pages and save it back to iDisk directly. There are too many steps right now.

 

[Full of Win]

Oh snap, so now the only really usable file system for the iPad costs an additional $99/year?

Its cheaper on eBay.

 

[Smaugg]

This item of news would be a lot more exciting if Apple finally fixed iDisk's dismal performance. I use SugarSync, Amazon S3 and drobox without a hitch. iDisk is nothing but a source of frustration for me--error after error and timeout after timeout.

 

[hagar]

I'm also one of the many unhappy users of iDisk. It really is completely useless: sync errors, files that mysteriously vanish, terrible performance, … I'm using Dropbox now, and will not renew my MM-subscription.