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New MobileMe Launched

It'll be interesting to see the overall reaction to the Switching feature.

I like it. It's attractive and pretty snappy, and it's just as good to me as any other way of navigating.

Yeah, the new MobileMe looks fine to me.
 
2992 said:
That's probably on the US... but hey, not everybody lives there if you have noticed!
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They email you the code so there shouldn't be a problem, I think mobileme should support more devices like laptops and not just iphones, ipads.
 
al256 said:
Apple can release this 'Find My iPhone' app for both iPhone and iPad platforms but can't do the same for the 'Apple Store' app? Ugh... Is it so wrong to want the iPad to be treated as an equal to the iPhone?
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this is an universal app, will look crappy on the iPad, but serve its purpose.

why would you want the apple store app on the iPad, you can just use the Apple.com webpage and have a much prettier experience, no?
 
Fliesen said:
this is an universal app, will look crappy on the iPad, but serve its purpose.

why would you want the apple store app on the iPad, you can just use the Apple.com webpage and have a much prettier experience, no?
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You could say that about most iPad apps! I would argue that you would have a better experience with an iPad app versus the actual Apple Store website...
 
Add me to the list of people that thought it was free as well. However, on the bright side, if you install the app, and c'mon you're really only going to lose the phone once (whether you get it back or not) because if you do get it back you wont let it out of your sight. So with that said, I would suggest do what I am doing. Install the app and if and when you lose it, you can go to apple and start a free 60 day trial and use the "Find My iPhone" for that.
 
Maverick1337 said:
Add me to the list of people that thought it was free as well. However, on the bright side, if you install the app, and c'mon you're really only going to lose the phone once (whether you get it back or not) because if you do get it back you wont let it out of your sight. So with that said, I would suggest do what I am doing. Install the app and if and when you lose it, you can go to apple and start a free 60 day trial and use the "Find My iPhone" for that.
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You obviously haven't thought that through, how will you activate find my phone on your iphone if you haven't got the phone.
 
MaxZ. said:
i like the find my iphone feature. but paying so much for actualy only maybe losing it is annoying. needing another iphone r ipod touch to find my lost iphone makes it actualy useless imo.... bet you can use a mac to?
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You've always been able to use any internet connected computer to use 'Find my iPhone', not just a Mac, you just log in to MobileMe and click on the link.

This new app is an EXTRA feature for iPhone users. I know it doesn't apply to most readers of MacRumors, but lots of people have "friends".
If you lose your iPhone, borrow your "friends" one, punch in your MobileMe details and Bob's your aunties live-in-lover, you can immediately see the location of your phone. You don't have to get to a computer to do it.

This could help you save a lot of valuable time in those first few minutes after your phone is stolen/lost and you can also remote wipe using the app.
 
I don't understand the point of this

What's the point in having an iPhone app for Find My Phone? If you've lost your phone then how are you going to be able to run the app??? A Mac app for this would have made much more sense.

I wish Apple would stop wasting time on pointless apps like this when they could be writing an app that lets me access my To Do items on my iPhone. Seriously, why does this app NEVER GET WRITTEN? It's unbelievably frustrating!
 
Hmm, i just got 3 emails 5 times each. Anyone else's email acting weird since the update?
 
New MobileMe is less secure

Apple have broken MobileMe in this new version - your password cannot contain special characters. I reset my password again, having removed the ampersand, but although iforgot.apple.com accepts the password, MobileMe does not.

I'm paying 80 euro a year for this? Remembering the problems they had with MobileMe upon launch, it seems like every single upgrade makes things worse before they make it better.

Are they really good at what they do, or are they a bunch of high-charging amateurs pushing out untested code in slap-dash manner?

Garbage service.

:mad:


Update: I just contacted Apple about this - they said it *is* a bug, they are fixing it, we will be able to use complex passwords again. BTW, I also think the new application-switch sucks. They're making a simple operation a little less simple. Why?
 
"Support for external email addresses (new since the beta). Reading all your email in one place is easy with MobileMe Mail. You can receive email from another service by having the email forwarded to your me.com address.* And when you reply to a message using webmail, you can choose to send it from the address it was sent to, or from your MobileMe account."

I got quite excited when I saw this, until I read the small print "*Check with your mail service provider to see if forwarding is supported."

I thought Apple where finally going to allow you to send emails with addresses other than your MobileMe addresses but I guess this isn't going to work with domain forwarded emails :(
 
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So, how exactly is the "find my iPhone" iPhone app going to help me find my iPhone ....if I've lost my iPhone?!?
 
While we're on the topic, it really irks me that the local brewery won't give me free beer. :rolleyes:
 
javaGuru said:
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So, how exactly is the "find my iPhone" iPhone app going to help me find my iPhone ....if I've lost my iPhone?!?
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It won't help you but it will help me when I use my wife's iPhone to find mine. (Or vice versa.)

Not every single app is written just for you, you know.
 
I personally thinkt the $99 is quite reasonable for a service that works and has worked flawlessly, is well designed (besides the switcher), contains ample storage space, and is well integrated into the hardware ecosystem of Apple.

I looked at gmail and google calendar etc, but these services don´t even come close imo. The time I have lost configuring and troubleshooting those services is well worth the relatively small fee for the MobileMe service that basically configures itself on all my Apple devices.

It could be a bit cheaper, but value costs money. If you want free, you can go to google and have badly designed services with no customer support.
 
JonB3Z said:
It won't help you but it will help me when I use my wife's iPhone to find mine. (Or vice versa.)

Not every single app is written just for you, you know.
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Perhaps Apple should write a new app explaining the find my iphone apps purpose using crayon pictures and easy to read words.

Having said that your description of the apps purpose is practically perfect :D
 
JonB3Z said:
It won't help you but it will help me when I use my wife's iPhone to find mine. (Or vice versa.)

Not every single app is written just for you, you know.
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Or, if you know your wife's login credentials, you can find her in a shopping centre if she gets lost. *Or*, if you're paranoid, track her wherever she goes to make sure her story checks out.


EDIT: I read that back and it seemed a bit snarky, which wasn't my intention. Just imagining the possibilities...
 
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