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MobileMe Launching on July 9th Between 6pm-12am PT
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Don't forget about my lonely Apple TV. Wonder how the OSX updates will be pushed, as a package or separate?? I can't wait for the all the software updates, it will be like Christmas again.
If it's anything like .Mac now, you will just send Apple an email to have them switch over the trial to a real account by giving them the activation code. This is assuming you for some reason cannot convert the trial online.
Glad to hear it's launching July 9. My iMac runs both Leopard and Vista, so it'll be nice for Vista to finally have fully synced calendars and contacts running in Outlook.
I noticed that too....they're gonna have to do lots of updating to get rid of all that .mac integration.
On a side note, does anyone know if a single user mobileme subscription will be able to sync to multiple iphones?
So does anyone know if this means 10.4 users will completely lose their current .Mac functionality?
If 10.5.4 includes the new MobileMe compatible updates and Apple is switching to MobileMe on the 9th, then I am assuming Tiger will not get any updates to work with MobileMe.
I wonder if Apple is going to refund those subscribers their $99.00. It seems as though if you advertise email, idisk, sync, etc with a .Mac service and charge $99.00 for a year of service. Aren't you liable if you don't deliver that service as advertised.
Remember Leopard wasn't a requirement for .Mac service. So how can you force people to upgrade to Leopard when they have already paid for the full year of service with Tiger.
If 10.5.4 includes the new MobileMe compatible updates and Apple is switching to MobileMe on the 9th, then I am assuming Tiger will not get any updates to work with MobileMe.
I wonder if Apple is going to refund those subscribers their $99.00. It seems as though if you advertise email, idisk, sync, etc with a .Mac service and charge $99.00 for a year of service. Aren't you liable if you don't deliver that service as advertised.
Remember Leopard wasn't a requirement for .Mac service. So how can you force people to upgrade to Leopard when they have already paid for the full year of service with Tiger.
Hmm...the message doesn't say anything about this, but I'm assuming this is just maintenance (as it does say) and that mac.com will evetually go back online (even if it just redirects you to MobileMe)? The message almost makes it sound like it won't come back online, but it's the only thing I can imagine if existing subscribers' @mac.com e-mail addresses are supposed to keep working.
Then again, I guess the e-mail addres for existing subscribers is probably the most important thing, so who cares what they do with the Web server portion of it.
Then again, I guess the e-mail addres for existing subscribers is probably the most important thing, so who cares what they do with the Web server portion of it.
You will get an update I would imagine on 10.4 and if not you will be able to use your .Mac stuff with that same functionality as it has today, but you won't get the new features of MobileMe. That is my understanding.
Stupid Apple store is still down. Hurry up Apple.
Im guessing that It'll be a small update which will replace all instances of .Mac with MobileMe and also the icons. The underlying framework has already been changed for Macs by 10.5.4. The Mail.app, for example, now considers .mac mail as push!
Yippee. My 100th post!
iPhone with Enterprise Plan and MobileMe?
would it make sense for me to have my iphone with an enterprise plan and use the mobileme service?
i know push email, calendar, contacts, etc. would be a push (ha! no pun intended), so the only benefit i see is idisk and send to gallery.
i do have one question though... would it be possible to get push contacts/calendar/etc. from both mobileme and enterprise? for example, would i be able to push my work contacts to the iphone and then have the iphone push the same contacts to mobileme? am i making any sense?!??! i'm confusing myself now....
would it make sense for me to have my iphone with an enterprise plan and use the mobileme service?
i know push email, calendar, contacts, etc. would be a push (ha! no pun intended), so the only benefit i see is idisk and send to gallery.
i do have one question though... would it be possible to get push contacts/calendar/etc. from both mobileme and enterprise? for example, would i be able to push my work contacts to the iphone and then have the iphone push the same contacts to mobileme? am i making any sense?!??! i'm confusing myself now....
Guys, guys, guys...MobileMe is an exchange service, but it WILL NOT require an Enterprise Data Plan. As a matter of fact, the only reason you'd need an Enterprise Data Plan is if your phone is registered with a company, not a personal account. AT&T won't go do something stupid like disable ActiveSync on the phones...it's a guaranteed, built-in feature of the 2.0 software.
Makes a lot of sense to me! Dude your Office comp is not your own mac/PC and I'm guessing that your company doesn't provide services for your home mac/pc.
As for your second ques, yes its theoretically possible except in mail cuz mail.app has different mailboxes
Makes a lot of sense to me! Dude your Office comp is not your own mac/PC and I'm guessing that your company doesn't provide services for your home mac/pc.
As for your second ques, yes its theoretically possible except in mail cuz mail.app has different mailboxes
hmmm.. if that was the case, then that'd be pretty rad. i don't need to push my work email to mobileme... god forbid, i get thousands a day. that would take up the 20gb preeeeettyyy quickly.
also, i read in another thread somewhere that a business account is not needed to use enterprise so save your $15 and stick with the regular data plan... any truth to that?
If you have .Mac... Log in and look under the tips ( right section on the page just below the big MobileMe logo) You'll find the first tip to be self explanatory.
If you dont however, here is the link.
It's been discussed before and is a given because a stand-alone browser won't support push data. The push service only works with iphones, macs with mobileme, and ipod touches. All other .Mac services are going away. That is why Apple is asking everyone to sync all of their browser bookmarks before July 6th.
You can still backup bookmarks and bookmarks will be pushed to mobileme macs. The only functionality you will lose will be the ability to go to an internet cafe, or student computer center, log on to your .Mac site via a web browser, and access all of your bookmarks. Instead they will only be pushed to your own devices or machines.
i know that this thread is for the new mobile me launch but since some other people have talked about it i will i can't wait for the apple store(the one online) to update and the itunes to update to 7.7(this website is saying it might be updated with the moblie me launch)
Are you positive about this? Many podcasts, by mac journalists, are up in arms about the AT&T plans. They are speculating that in order to get push service to your iphone you will be required to have an enterprise plan.
So not only is AT&T charging more for the 3G plan, but they are now going to be charging extra for text messaging and push data functionality. This is a total rip considering 3G is not available in most areas, charging extra for text messaging is price gouging considering it doesn't use much bandwidth and costs AT&T nothing to implement, now push data maybe charged separately. What a bunch of crooks!
Poor implementation
Poor implementation; that's an understatement. .Mac would have been great if it wasn't so terrible. I've quit using the idisk; it was completely misrepresented as behaving just like another disk on your computer. Every time I had a problem with a file on it, I was told "oh, you can't use it like that." And I would say, "What's it doing in the finder if I can't use it like a disk?"
Address book has been mangled by the syncing/sharing stuff more times than I can can count. Don't get me started on iCal.
The whole "to do" thing has left me kind of confused. Shows in the mail app where you can sort of edit it some ways, in iCal where you edit it different ways and can do different things, and you can't do anything with it on the .Mac web site.
And I discovered by trial and error that the mail settings on the mail app have nothing to do with the mail settings on the .Mac web interface. Thought they used to, but not in 10.5.
Okay, I'm feeling clueless with this stuff, even though I'm a proficient mac user.
Has anyone else had these kinds of experiences?
Poor implementation; that's an understatement. .Mac would have been great if it wasn't so terrible. I've quit using the idisk; it was completely misrepresented as behaving just like another disk on your computer. Every time I had a problem with a file on it, I was told "oh, you can't use it like that." And I would say, "What's it doing in the finder if I can't use it like a disk?"
Address book has been mangled by the syncing/sharing stuff more times than I can can count. Don't get me started on iCal.
The whole "to do" thing has left me kind of confused. Shows in the mail app where you can sort of edit it some ways, in iCal where you edit it different ways and can do different things, and you can't do anything with it on the .Mac web site.
And I discovered by trial and error that the mail settings on the mail app have nothing to do with the mail settings on the .Mac web interface. Thought they used to, but not in 10.5.
Okay, I'm feeling clueless with this stuff, even though I'm a proficient mac user.
Has anyone else had these kinds of experiences?
If you look clearly at the iReady ATT Corporate Customer Website, they specifically target individuals who are already corporate customers.
Meaning these individuals:
1)Business Customer with corporate paying bill
2)Business Customer with individual paying bill
3)Small Business
4)Enterprise Telecom Manager
From this list, you can look at the fact that Corporate Customers are those individual which a particular company/organization has an account at ATT. At this case you can clearly see that it has to do with corporate account management. I don't think that this is tied to any particular 2.0 feature (like push, enterprise support) but rather "solutions and services", therefore push support should continue to work on a regular account as long as your company doesn't require you to have a "corporate" account.
