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MobileMe Update Adds iDisk Public Folder Features, Makes 'Find My iPhone' More Prominent

It has turned out to be a really useful tool.

I fly with expensive racing bikes nearly everywhere I go. I can't risk shipping them, after numerous forklift incidents over the years, so I fly with them as checked items. ...with the added safety of having my phone taped inside. If I show up at the baggage claim, and the bike does not, I can pop open my MBP, and locate it with airport staff quickly and accurately.

I tracked my iphone yesterday. Drove 30 miles to find it between the cushions in the champagne room. :| Whoops!
 
Fastshutter said:
"Find my iPhone" should be part of iTunes and free for all iPhone users, not tied to a premium service. MobileMe is too expensive for what it does (just like most Apple products).
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Apple should provide this service for free why? Oh yeah, everything should be for free.
 
No https in the web-apps (beside authentication and preferences) is a joke (for a service with costs).
 
Razeus said:
Simply because the charge for this is what makes MobileMe lame. Total rip off. Dropbox, BusyCal, GMail via MS Exchange does it all for me.

For free.
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Someone is paying $$$$$$$ for that Exchange server you're using so it's far from free.

MobileMe continues to disappoint me. Every additional feature seems to involve the removal of something else and none of what it does is up to Apple's usual high standards. It seems to be a "hobby" like AppleTV rather than a serious product.
 
What of servers outside USA? In Europe idisk has been a joke for years. It is sad that Microsoft (25 GB free), dropbox, Google and others owns this market here. MobileMe is really not that great in function or cost here.
 
DMann said:
"Find My iPhone" rocks! It is the LoJack of phones, and has lead to the recovery and location of many 'lost' iPhones.
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I agree. I am also waiting for "Find My Mac" using WiFi. Furthermore, I can see Apple adding GPS chips to their portables now that location based services are becoming very useful and common.
 
Has Apple mentioned anything about speeding up the service? My main complaint with idisk is that it is ten times slower than any other file service I have used.

FTP sites, Dropbox, etc. work so much faster for file transfer. idisk always transfers files at a snails pace.

Also it is not very reliable for windows IE users. Half the time I post files for windows users and they have problems with the downloads.
 
how about letting me login to me.com?

i cant really login even after resetting my password. What a shame.
 
All the remote find wipe, and lock features require push notification to be on.

So... If you find an iPhone, I guess the first thing you should do is turn off push. Enjoy your new phone.

Shouldn't it be a little more covert. Or perhaps turning off push should require you enter you password? Just seems like a duh to me.
 
upekkharich said:
what if they made mobileme work for writing and reading email
that would be really cool
you could read email online, from any computer using the internet, then you could write an email to someone
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This is precisely the reason that I will not be renewing my MobileMe membership this time despite having been a .mac subscriber for the past 6-years. The old web mail system may have been clunky compared to newer systems (like Gmail) but it was nowhere near as annoying as MobileMe's implementation is. The number of times that the application completely reloads the screen, such that whatever action you have requested it to do is forgotten, just drives me nuts. Safari also seems to have a habit of loading MobileMe such that its icons and many screen elements are missing.

I want to like MobileMe but it's just not worth the money. If I am going to pay for a service that can be obtained from other sources for free then I feel I am entitled to expect a better level of service (heck, I pay extra for a Mac to have a better experience). But MobileMe simply does not deliver and for a paid service this is positively criminal. I am not paying for something that annoys...
 
MobileMe sure does need a few updates doing to it.

Searching e-mail, better iDisk, more password-protection, better e-mail system.
 
Well i'm happy they brought the public folder interface up-to-date. That thing was such an old relic :eek:

Personally I think Apple took the wrong approach with MobileMe. Instead of sitting down and discussing "How can we make the best email? How can we make the best online storage solution?" etc. etc. they did "How can we make .Mac the best it can be?". It meant iDisk especially had to be updated based on their previous backend WebDAV setup instead of considering a Dropbox type approach.

MobileMe is good if you have a use for most of what it offers. But it does have many things that need looking at.
 
wfoster said:
MobileMe sure does need a few updates doing to it.

Searching e-mail, better iDisk, more password-protection, better e-mail system.
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+ more security

  • full https support in the mobile apps
  • idisk: server-side encryption like dropbox & co

+ Jabber-Account für iChat (instead of proprietary AIM)
+ Jabber-Chat in the Mobile-Apps
+ S/MIME for E-Mail (not only iChat)
 
I do not use Mobile.me and I also don't plan ever using it. Not only are there free services for most features, of which some are even better, but I also don't use any of them either, simply because I've setup my own Ubuntu server (with WLAN wakeup to make it green). And not at home of course ;) The neat thing is that everything is under my control, works exactly like I want for our family and friends, and I can do with it whatever I want. Nothing like Mobile.me

And tracking your iPhone can be done for free... with help of your MAC address. It just takes a little longer, but it works. Not to mention that deleting stuff from your iPhone won't prevent it from being restored by Joe Smug!!!

If my iPhone gets stolen then getting a new one is all what counts to me. Not about being afraid for the pictures/contacts on it. I mean if you have to worry about the pictures, then you already are in a danger zone. What if it gets broken? Hello Apple?
 
Scallywag said:
MobileMe no longer loads correctly in Google Chrome...my main browser at work.
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Not being funny, but as Safari and Chrome both use WebKit as their rendering engine, I'd argue (heaven forbid it be possible) that Chrome is at fault, I could be wrong though.
 
iDisk is good as an FTP server. Aside from that, I really dont use it...

The fact that people are wishing iDisk was like Dropbox does say that they compare the two, whether or not they use the same implementations.

For the casual user... get dropbox!
 
bretm said:
All the remote find wipe, and lock features require push notification to be on.

So... If you find an iPhone, I guess the first thing you should do is turn off push. Enjoy your new phone.

Shouldn't it be a little more covert. Or perhaps turning off push should require you enter you password? Just seems like a duh to me.
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I completely agree. Or all someone has to do is turn off the phone, which is what people usually do when they first 'find' a lost phone and intend on keeping it. My friend left his phone in a restaurant and went back an hour later, of course no one turned it in. Then we went home to use the find my iphone from mobile me and of course, no phone found. they had turned it off. phone gone. I did not renew my mobile me account that expired this week for that very reason. I just didn't use it enough but was willing to keep it for the find my iphone ability but now seeing that doesn't always work if it gets stolen.
 
twilson said:
Not being funny, but as Safari and Chrome both use WebKit as their rendering engine, I'd argue (heaven forbid it be possible) that Chrome is at fault, I could be wrong though.
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Given that Chrome worked beautifully on Mobile Me before, but doesn't now - the cause of it now no longer working is Apples. And I bet they KNOW it doesn't work, and don't care, hoping people will switch to Safari. Something I will never do on my PC workstations.
 
Hmmmm...

Now maybe they can work on the Mobileme email so it actually works. They could get a lesson from gmail.
 
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