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Steve Jobs: MobileMe to 'Get A Lot Better' Next Year

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macintologist said:
Unlike all my cheap friends that use all google products and put all their personal information and email in google's servers so creepy 3rd party advertisers can look at it, I'm happy to pay a nominal fee for my email to be secure and private in Apple's servers. They charge for their services and thus have no incentive to look at their my data or sell it to someone else.

I value online email, calendering, etc enough to pay for it.
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Reported :)

Next time don't be such a
 
I hope that with "a lot better" Steve means faster, more solid and generally reliable. I've been a subscriber to Mobile Me for many years and I've dropping all of its services one by one. Now I virtually never use and will cancel my subscription next year unless something really radical happens. iDisk is so slow it's useless, Mail is put to shame by almost every free web-based mail system out there. Calendar and contacts are inconsistent across Apple devices and frighteningly unreliable (I've had scores of events disappearing inexplicably from Calendar twice [now I use Google Calendar, and so far so good]).

To be fair, Mobile Me's customer support is top notch and they bent over backwards for me when I suffered unexplained data loss in calendar. However, I need a system that works reliably and with minimal downtime. Mobile Me is very far from offering that. I do hope they are working on making it rock solid instead of adding gimmicks and giving it some new candy-colored interface because if they are not it's good-bye Mobile Me for me.
 
Smaugg said:
I hope that with "a lot better" Steve means faster, more solid and generally reliable. I've been a subscriber to Mobile Me for many years and I've dropping all of its services one by one. Now I virtually never use and will cancel my subscription next year unless something really radical happens. iDisk is so slow it's useless, Mail is put to shame by almost every free web-based mail system out there. Calendar and contacts are inconsistent across Apple devices and frighteningly unreliable (I've had scores of events disappearing inexplicably from Calendar twice [now I use Google Calendar, and so far so good]).
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the problem is that a lot better for apple means some goofy html email templates and less funtionality to make it simpler. then they add on iwork on the cloud to justify a price increase. :rolleyes:

i keep subscribing to mobileme only because I don't want to lose the email address and because it syncs keychain items. at least i could renew for 45 bucks by buying from amazon. and even that is barely worth it because of the stability issues and lack of speed.
 
g-boac said:
agree 100% - was just about to post that even before reading your note. the @me.com just doesn't "ring" right on my resume to me. I actually use @mac for my e-mails, and if I had to change, I would discontinue use of the service.
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+1

If I'd lost my mac.com address and been forced to use me.com I'd have cancelled. As it stands I'm finding it harder and harder to justify paying for it.

At the same time getting enough space on Dropbox to back up my iPhoto library would cost more than MobileMe does. Maybe some people don't think their photos are important, but I think a lot of parents would agree with me that if you were hit by a natural disaster and lost virtually everything you owned one of the things you'd miss most would be those snapshots of your kids' first steps, first ice cream cone, first pony ride, etc.
 
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With Find My iPhone is now free I don't see any reason for me to keep my subscription. If it is only a performance update next year then I'm over with MobileMe. They should add more space and make it cheaper. The price of $99 a year is just too much even when the Find My iPhone feature wasn't free. But since it's already free what else is interesting on MobileMe that is worth keeping my subscription and the price is justifiable on that feature.
 
My wife and I have been enjoying .Mac/MobileMe and have had no problems (save for the MM transition). We have crazy schedules and it is just too damn convenient for us to keep our calendars in sync and shared both at home and when mobile.

The only thing I haven't used much is Find My iPhone, which is now free anyway. I don't think it will "get a lot better" next year, to be honest. Jobs isn't going to say anything other than that.
 
Well I am the "idiot" (to quote one of you) who sent this email to SJ, and later forwarded it to MacRumors.

Note that I tried to structure my email so that he'd actually respond... Some buttering up, a question that didn't ask *too much* information, etc. I noted a similar structure in the other emails he'd responded to so I thought it worth a try. And it worked, so there :p ;)

Also, NB that the issues I've experienced with sync problems have zero to do with the "solutions" put forth by people in this thread - they are server side issues that have been elevated to senior tech support on two separate occasions (the folks who deep dive and get back to you after 24/48 hours).

Also, note from my signature that the viability of MobileMe is of particular importance to me as someone who uses their iPad as their primary computer. Recent improvements have brought the number of usability/workflow compromises in the device down sharply. As many here have noted, improvements to iDisk - in particular making it a robust solution that is integrated well within iOS - would go a long way, as would fixing the most basic functionality, i.e. syncing!!

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
 
nwcs said:
It wouldn't surprise me if mobile me becomes an iAD based free service next year. It'd be a perfect fit for them.
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iAd is an iOS platform only so at this time u won't see it in a web browser

Oflife said:
...then Chrome is going to eat them for breakfast.

Companies like LG are capable (when they try) of producing hardware that is every bit as sexy as Apple's, but at a significantly reduced cost.

Chrome renders much of OS X obsolete overnight, and the slew of html5/canvas web apps that will be thrust upon teh dynamic interwebs will change everything - again.

But it's all good clean competition! ;)
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Lol. This was funny



I think too many Dropbox fans here don't understand the difference between Dropbox & iDisk.


Dropbox is fast because you ARE working on local files people! You are not working on files over a WAN. This means if you have 50GB of storage in sync across multiple computers you have taken up 50GB on each computer (at least until Selective Sync comes).

iDisk is slower because it's not caching files locally unless u chose to. So asking iDisk to perform like Dropbox is to fundamentally misunderstand the two approaches to cloud storage
 
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If Apple were truly smart, which they are...

Apple will launch Me.com as a fully featured Web Apps platform, with its own integrated Web Apps Store.

Booya.
 
I don't see all these so-called problems people are having. I've been on MoblileMe since it was called iTools and I haven't had a single problem with it. Slow syncing isn't necessarily a problem, just something that needs improvement. I will say the only issue I've had is uploading large files, doesn't seem to work.
 
MobileMe should be free. For all the billions Apple has, it's surely beyond me why it's not when iTools was.
 
macintologist said:
Unlike all my cheap friends that use all google products and put all their personal information and email in google's servers so creepy 3rd party advertisers can look at it, I'm happy to pay a nominal fee for my email to be secure and private in Apple's servers. They charge for their services and thus have no incentive to look at their my data or sell it to someone else.

I value online email, calendering, etc enough to pay for it.
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That is cute. You believe Apple is not combing threw it for data.

Apple has every instinctive to go threw it for more data because it = more money for them. You paying for it is pure gravy and in some ways makes it more valuable data because it is known that you will pay for it. Just keep dreaming that Apple is their to protect you. Apple has shown its true colors time and time again that they do not give a damn about their users and only want more profit and will do what ever it takes to get there.

As for me. Refuse to use moble me. Complete rip off and honestly for contact syncing I have been using Goolge for a long time now.
 
I have also had many syncing problems with MobileMe, it just decided to delete all my bookmarks from one of my devices, I had to shutdown that part of the sync to keep it from doing so from my other devices. I also had the totally reset the whole syncing a couple of times because it was so messed up.

I hope they really do clean up their syncing mechanism.
 
I sure hope so. I am on the knife edge of keep vs. drop. Fortunately found that Cyberduck will do intelligent syncing with iDisk. Having a somewhat usable 20 GB of cloud storage adds value for me. Lacking a decent WebDAV client, iDisk is unusable. Currently, the idea of having iDisk on your desktop mounted as a volume is a joke.

Hopefully the NC data center will be part of the solution and it comes not a moment too soon in my view. I hope it adds resources--is more than just an effort to bring functionality in house to boost profits. Even the iTunes store has slowed to a crawl lately. The search function is often completely unusable. They might as well post a page saying "Out to Lunch" for hours at a time. I imagine that Amazon really benefits from this. Add the new Mac application store to Apple's cloud and it's a dark, rainy day indeed unless they dramatically shore up their cloud service resources.
 
The cloud. Store your iTunes library to apples servers and access music and video for streaming. Also you can sync with the library wirelessly with your computer and idevice.


Also this is why they made find my iPhone free. They have that to take its place.
 
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Been a subscriber for a long time now, and frankly, I'm ready to drop it. My subscription renews next August, so hopefully whatever changes happen, happen before then, and they are worth it. Right now, I can do everything I need between Google, Facebook etc. I WANT to stay with Mobileme, but the price has got to go WAY down, or the service offerings increase 10 fold to make it worth it to me anymore.

Here's hoping......
 
ilogic said:
Apple will launch Me.com as a fully featured Web Apps platform, with its own integrated Web Apps Store.

Booya.
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That's actually a great idea. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up doing that. :)
 
It better gets better asap, don't get me wrong but without the "Find my iPhone" Exclusivity this thing is worth 30$ a year, not 90$ they should work a bit on iWork and do something SquareSpace -ish, that makes it worth 100 bucks a year i think
 
I have used MobileMe from the .Mac days. I agree - it is a mixed bag.

I first used it wile writing overseas. Paranoid that theft of my computer would mean a loss of months of work, I did twice daily backups to iDisk. That worked great.

But when I was syncing to MMe a few months ago on my old G5 tower running Leopard, the syncing got so bad that it would slow the computer to a crawl. I finally had to turn it off and sync manually. Even went to dropbox to solve my day to day use.

I have a new i7 MBP so the syncing is not much of an issue most of the time.

I do not use the calendar syncing much (which I have heard has a lot of problems), and I have had intermittent problems with duplicate email that were sent reappearing in my outbox. I do have to say, however, that things seem to be getting better. The push notifications work so fast, that if I CC myself, my copy seems to appear in the inbox almost before the send is complete.

I do agree the price is high!
 
andiwm2003 said:
i keep subscribing to mobileme only because I don't want to lose the email address
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For real? You actually lose your mobileme email if you don't pay up every year? I left Comcast 4 years ago and they have still not deleted my @comcast.net address with 10Gb storage and free security suite.

Even Flickr keeps my account and photos if I don't pay them for Pro account.

That *reeks* of CHEAP on Apple's part.
 
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Guys dont drop mobile me - steve needs the money for his private jet plane
 
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