MobileMe Launching on July 9th Between 6pm-12am PT

[Apple Ink]

Er... Its 8:02 in PT (isnt it?) then why isnt .mac off yet???

 

[kster]

8:03pm....

 

[Pooshka]

.mac is still up, wtf

 

[David G.]

well .Mac is not up..

Yes it is.

 

[mr.stinki]

no its not. Going to mac.com will take you to the ".Mac will be Mobile me" page

 

[Apple Ink]

WHY IS APPLE SCREWING US???

First its a 2 hour delay. Now .Mac doesnt seem to go down. WTF???

Its 8:07

 

[iTim314]

Get a grip people. lol. They're 7 minutes past the WINDOW of downtime. Give them time.

Your patience will be rewarded, grasshopper.

 

[Apple Ink]

no its not. Going to mac.com will take you to the ".Mac will be Mobile me" page

Going to www.mac.com has always taken you there. Pls click on the Log it to .Mac button on the upper right side of the page!

 

[David G.]

no its not. Going to mac.com will take you to the ".Mac will be Mobile me" page

It's really truly is working for me. Hmm...
Edit: beaten to it.

 

[Pooshka]

no its not. Going to mac.com will take you to the ".Mac will be Mobile me" page

it's the default mobileme page when logged out. try logging in to .mac, it is still UP

 

[deanshamrock]

WHY IS APPLE SCREWING US???

First its a 2 hour delay. Now .Mac doesnt seem to go down. WTF???

Its 8:07

Some programmers have a bet to see how many of us will keep refreshing mac.com before they actually take it down...or they are still eating pizza.

 

[ziggyonice]

If you are LOGGED IN to .Mac, it appears as still being up.
If you LOG OUT and then try accessing www.mac.com, it redirects the page.

 

[iTim314]

Some programmers have a bet to see how many of us will keep refreshing mac.com before they actually take it down...or they are still eating pizza.

I can totally seeing the first scenario happening...

 

[ziggyonice]

WHY IS APPLE SCREWING US???

First its a 2 hour delay. Now .Mac doesnt seem to go down. WTF???

Its 8:07

Geez, we're waiting for the site to go down, not up... no need to get angry.

 

[Apple Ink]

8:12 still up!

 

[mac-convert]

It's down now - and they didn't even put up the yellow sticky note!

 

[Apple Ink]

Geez, we're waiting for the site to go down, not up... no need to get angry.

LOL

 

[Pooshka]

i want it down

i want it down

 

[nvbrit]

well .Mac is not up.. But .me isn't up yet... tomorrow when i wake up it will probably be up.

.me won't be up yet, that's the whole point of this .mac goes down, sometime later on MobileMe will be up

 

[Gregintosh]

Maybe they warned people about outages "just in case" and they may be able to change over the system without a major disruption.

 

[ziggyonice]

Definitely still up... I'm looking at iCards now...

Try logging in, it still works: http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Webmail.woa

 

[iTim314]

Maybe they warned people about outages "just in case" and they may be able to change over the system without a major disruption.

That's very possible.

Out electrical company regularly posts warnings in the local paper that outages are possible on certain dates and times for maintenance, but it rarely actually goes out.

 

[ifonline]

It is funny that for so long we would all complain when .Mac went down, and now we are complaining that it won't go down!

We are awesome!

 

[docdailey]

The status page says it is still operational...

http://www.apple.com/support/dotmac/

 

[ifonline]

Yes... it's still running at full capacity! This is the most stable .Mac has been in a long time, right before it is going away for ever!