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MobileMe Launching on July 9th Between 6pm-12am PT
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From a marketing perspective, Apple may want to wait and release the firmware on the 11th. If they released it earlier some who were thinking of getting a new iPhone might decide to not upgrade. Especially since most of the functionality is in the software.
Eh... Part of MobileMe's attraction, for me at least, is having everything in one interface. I have found myself getting out my phone to check my mail or add a calendar appointment or change a contact when it would really be more convenient to just do those things from one web portal and have those things pushed. It's a drag keeping Gmail open for easy web access (I refuse to use Outlook).
I think like most things Apple, MobileMe will quickly gain a foothold as people realize the benefits of having everything everywhere. I would liken it to people who have discovered IMAP email... Would you ever go back to POP? Didn't think so...
How does Push Works
Hi.
I am getting an iPhone 3G on Friday and i also have an Mobile Me account.
Does having push email, means that that my iPhone email client will be gathering email every second?. If it does, will it take a lot of MB of date.
I mean i will have 150 MB on my iPhone plan, so maybe this Push thing will eat all my quota.
Hi.
I am getting an iPhone 3G on Friday and i also have an Mobile Me account.
Does having push email, means that that my iPhone email client will be gathering email every second?. If it does, will it take a lot of MB of date.
I mean i will have 150 MB on my iPhone plan, so maybe this Push thing will eat all my quota.
Would you explain this to me? I'm being serious. I haven't switched from POP because I like to be able to deal with some of my messages when I get back home rather than when I'm 'on the go'. Also I like to have them all saved on my Macbook.
How could I switch and still have this happen? It seems there are benefits such as the feature SEND TO GALLERY that is only available if your .Mac account is set up as an IMAP account. And the PUSH factor as well.
But seriously, I'd like to make the switch but still have the other advantage of things saved. Can you offer any advice?
Thanks!
I'm not sure that push will really consume more KB than pull. Any email is coming in via push would be coming in when you poll the server. Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong.Hi.
I am getting an iPhone 3G on Friday and i also have an Mobile Me account.
Does having push email, means that that my iPhone email client will be gathering email every second?. If it does, will it take a lot of MB of date.
I mean i will have 150 MB on my iPhone plan, so maybe this Push thing will eat all my quota.
In other news: having an iPhone 3G and a LIMITED data plan sucks pretty hard.
IMAP stores everything on the email server and syncs with any email client you have setup to use it. Meaning your email will look exactly the same on all machines. All your inbox,deleted,replys etc. Emails that you read on one machine will be set to read on the other etc. You can also setup as many folders as you want to organize your email and that will sync.
The PUSH factor means you'll get those changes synced instantly on all your machines using it, as well as getting your emails instantly instead of when it does a check for email.
Also if you have attachments i believe you can set it not to download and then download the attachments if you want them. Or you can set to bring in just the email headers and only when you click on the message will it download from the server.
All those make it quicker.
I've had admittedly little sleep so I'm not sure I understand your reservations... basically IMAP email is the same everywhere, as opposed to POP where it can get scattered amongst different computers, iPhones, web clients, etc...
I would say that IMAP has made keeping track of and searching for old emails incredibly painless.
In Apple Mail you can set your IMAP accounts to keep copies of messages and attachments on the client which means you have offline access...
Thanks for the quick response!
But it sounds like if I were to delete something on my iPhone while out and about, it'd be gone when I got home? If I reply to a message from my iPhone, will it save the SENT messages back home as well? I like to keep a copy of ALL Sent messages, etc.
As for PUSH, does that mean it draws battery life more often. Or would you set it to do a "CHECK FOR E-MAIL" MANUALLY since it is gonna just come straight to you?
Thanks!
Hi.
I am getting an iPhone 3G on Friday and i also have an Mobile Me account.
Does having push email, means that that my iPhone email client will be gathering email every second?. If it does, will it take a lot of MB of date.
I mean i will have 150 MB on my iPhone plan, so maybe this Push thing will eat all my quota.
The whole point of Push Email is to use less bandwidth. Look it up on Wikipedia.
OK, I have a question about iDisk. Apple's video shows that the iDisk can be mounted as a remote drive under Vista. Does anyone know if the same capability exists with Windows XP?
Arn, you are quick! I just submitted this story to you about 1 minute ago.
8 minutes after I posted it to my blog!
http://troubledwine.blogspot.com/2008/07/mobileme-downtime-wednesday-night.html
If you delete a msg it just goes into your delete folder, so you can still view it at home.
Or you can just make a folder and move stuff into other folders on your iphone etc.
As for PUSH taking up more battery, i doubt it. The new PUSH feature in 2.0 is going to be used all the time for all iPhone users.
AIM will use it along with other new apps from the apps store. They basically send your phone a signal, like when you get a text, and update your phone.
You don't worry about sms draining or getting a call? Those are all PUSH type functions.
Does anybody know if MobileMe allows:
To use my own domain name website
to use my own email with my own domain name?
In other words I would like to moblieme to be like an web hosting service with the features that Apple provides. Is that possible.
Thanks for any input.
To use my own domain name website
to use my own email with my own domain name?
In other words I would like to moblieme to be like an web hosting service with the features that Apple provides. Is that possible.
Thanks for any input.
Has any one actually noticed that the .mac mail setup in Mail.app finally doesn't need "Get Mail" to show new mail. I mean even if you click Get Mail, the rotating circle appears for a very very short time as compared to my Gmails! Push, maybe!!!
Or maybe Im getting way to psych in the current Apple rumor environment...
I mean first iPhone 3gG, 2.0 firmware, MobileMe, Whopping MBA price cuts, MBP Casing, New MBPs and MBs (if the name stays like that), Nehalem and new iPods and the ultra foggy iTablet!!!
Seems like I'll explode if this rate continues....
Or maybe Im getting way to psych in the current Apple rumor environment...
I mean first iPhone 3gG, 2.0 firmware, MobileMe, Whopping MBA price cuts, MBP Casing, New MBPs and MBs (if the name stays like that), Nehalem and new iPods and the ultra foggy iTablet!!!
Seems like I'll explode if this rate continues....
Regarding the "Tuesday 9th" icon... promo shots for the iPhone have always shown that date, the date that the iPhone was first revealed at MWSF - Tuesday 9th January 2007.
You can forward your domain e-mail from Google Apps to MobileMe, then use Gmail as your SMTP server. This will allow you to use push e-mail and still send using your domain. I do that now with Gmail & Fastmail but I will be switching to MobileMe in 2 days!
other updates to expect
I would also expect updates to iPhoto (7.1.4 drops .Mac Slides from the toolbar and any references to .Mac change to MobileMe) and Mail.app (replacing built-in .Mac email account support for MobileMe).
I would also expect updates to iPhoto (7.1.4 drops .Mac Slides from the toolbar and any references to .Mac change to MobileMe) and Mail.app (replacing built-in .Mac email account support for MobileMe).
Its the logo - its on the MobileMe box artwork:
http://www.apple.com/pr/products/mobileme/mobileme.html
Attachments
1. Yes. You may use your own domain name!
2. No. You can create aliases but they all will be "<alias>@me.com"
But still you can use the email address give to you free by DNR (if DNR did give you one) by adding it as pop (atleast this was the case in .Mac)!
Website, yes they claim to. Email, I'm not sure. But when I tried to get .mac to host my website they only gave out a Cname instead of nameserver info, and my domain name provider would not accept the Cname.
