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New MobileMe Calendar Officially Launched

It's a shame you can't use the web version on iPad or iPhone. It would be nice to be able to log in to check other accounts without having to reset your device settings.

At some point, they need to make iOS support multiple accounts. For phones, it's pretty safe to bet that it's a one user device. For iPads, and to a certain extent, iPod Touches, a lot more device sharing goes on.

It -is- nice to see Apple putting a effort into these web services. It looks Beautiful on my iMac and in Chromium on my Ubuntu desktop.
 
Without it being able to show my google calendar this is no use to me. I was part of the Beta but as soon as I found I couldn't use my shared calendar I never opened the feature again. Looks nice though.
 
Be VERY CAREFULL

Be VERY CAREFULL, if you are using iphone os 3.2, or have a 2G or 3G iphone that you have not upgraded, and use MobileMe for calendar syncing OTA.

If you upgrade to this, it will BREAK the connection and not work, and you MAY lose all your calendar data in iCal. MAKE A BACKUP before proceeding.

Really wish they didn't do all this stuff that requires 4.1+ all the time.
 
Adgeman said:
Without it being able to show my google calendar this is no use to me. I was part of the Beta but as soon as I found I couldn't use my shared calendar I never opened the feature again. Looks nice though.
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I completely agree. My job uses Gcal and I wish I had this feature.
 
Calendar/contact/mail should all be free from mobileme. Data storage and webhosting should cost a yearly fee.
 
MatthewCobb said:
If the second part of that sentence is true, this is pointless for those of us who don't have SL installed everywhere.
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I paid for mobileme mostly for sharing the calendars on multiple macs and iphones with different and old OS versions... so the new version will never be of use for me :(
 
Brinkman said:
Calendar/contact/mail should all be free from mobileme. Data storage and webhosting should cost a yearly fee.
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this is probably the direction things are going, once the new datacenter comes online, it will probably be some form of FREE + Premium model.
 
tivoboy said:
this is probably the direction things are going, once the new datacenter comes online, it will probably be some form of FREE + Premium model.
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Personally, I think it worth the 5 bucks a month. I use it for backup and Carbonite is about the same cost and it only does one function.
 
Mac OS iCal and iOS iCal could both use a revamp. My iPhone's iCal is just stupid, with the events cut off at the bottom, showing me 1 & 1/2 events in the Month view.
 
Explain the requirement for one to have OS X 10.6.4. This artificial baseline is pointless. They are requiring a minimum of Firefox 3.6 so we know it's not HTML 5 and besides the latest Safari for 10.5 is HTML 5 aware.
 
Mobileme Value

The new iCal is awesome. I will admit i was never a fan of this service till a while ago (use google stuff and go daddy).

How I found Value for mobile me:
For starters I never pay the full price of mobile me, i always ask for a discount. One advantage to always buying it in the store is not having to pay tax on it. So I never let it auto-renew.

Syncing services (once set up :) are much smoother than googles, hardly ever breaks unless they are doing updates versus google syncing always breaks every time there is a new update.

Mail is private and there are no ads, plus the utilization of rules and alias's are amazing once set up.

iDisk provides me with a much more robust data storage for backing up plus the ability on my iPhone and iPad to stream music and video to my phone so i don't have to store it on there. It also allows me to upload my photos from my camera roll on my iphone to free up space. The ability to make a website is a bonus but not as good as go-daddys but with the rumors of iWeb getting a huge revamp miht make me interested again in it.
 
wait...

I think I have this right: if I don't have the absolute latest os x, OR my iphone doesn't run ios 4.x, OR I use an ipad (which CANT have ios 4.x for another month+), (together read: "I am a normal person") then I better not upgrade.

Right?
 
value

I really think MM has a lot of value, and especially if you get it for like 30-45$ a year off ebay as I have done the last five years. Sometimes even 25$.

That said,

20GB storage, easy to make albums for people to view from iphoto, online, ipad, iphone access.

easy to share large movie files, files, documents, etc. Password access, etc.

Sync iCal to MM to iphones/ipads, works great (except for now with the 4.1 requirements)

So, it ends up being like 3-4$ a month, totally worth it in my opinion
 
I'll bet part of Lion is free (or free for two years) mobile me, in conjunction with the new data center in North Carolina. It would be yet another benefit to Mac Ownership, and a competitive advantage other PC vendors couldn't really compete with.
 
Ruahrc said:
True but now there is a UI inconsistency that did not exist with the old version of the calendar (because it matched the current iCal UI). I would like it better if the UI experience was consistent throughout.
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I would be very surprised if 10.7 iCal and Mail did not borrow heavily from MobileMe's look.
 
No Entourage Support

Entourage doesn't support CalDAV. So, you have to use iCal, fine. But the thing that gets me is that Entourage has a way to sync with MobileMe calendars, and now this calendar update breaks that.

With the Entourage 2008, I can turn on the option to enable MobileMe syncing, so I get my work calendar and my personal calendars in MobileMe, on my iPhone and home computers, so I know what my day really looks like.

Sigh... :mad:
 
Mike Oxard said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

The picture appears to show it running on an iPhone, but you can't log in to MobileMe on an iPhone, unless I've missed something?
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That's just the calender app on the phone
 
Still unable to invite others to events?

I just created an event (on my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.1) and tried to invite someone else to it. Still can't. So other than the web calendar being a little bit prettier, what possible use is this "all new" service? If you still can't do the most basic calendaring functions, I don't even know why MacRumors bothered posting this story. :confused:
 
coolfactor said:
You're just being cheap and narrow-minded. A company is entitled to generate revenue from their services.
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Maybe. But would you rather pay $99/year for a service, or $0/year for the same service?

That's the bottom line. If I want calendar syncing, I'm going to get the most functional package I can find for the cheapest I have to pay. I'm not paying money to Apple simply because it's Apple.

Now, yes, Mobile Me offers a lot more than calendars, and maybe that's worth the $99 to some people. But for me, for the services they offer, it's just not worth the price point given the numerous free alternatives available.
 
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