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

Mobile Me

I don't think I would resubscribe to mobile if Steve paid me. I quit in disgust after it synced my key chains into outer space. I have also seen my daughter's mail App on mobile Me and it is a disgrace. If you want to switch views to, say classic, you must do it every time you visit the site. It has no spam blocking worth mentioning. My daughter averages 10 spams a day from the same sources and marks them as junk day after day. They just keep showing up.

This is the 'New' highly touted "improved" version of Mobile Me Mail. I really think that Apple should rename this disaster Mini-me.
 
Benjy91 said:
I currently have a MobileMe account, and still have to cling on to my Hotmail account because it is my Apple ID, and my tie to Xbox Live.

I pay for Hotmails premium service to allow me to forward emails, no adverts, and what for the time was the increased 25GB of space, although since then Microsoft have made that space available for free.

With Microsoft contemplating making Hotmail IMAP, Syncing between devices because of Windows Phone 7, I may jump back to them.
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You can associate multiple e-mail addresses to your Apple ID.

Go to http://appleid.apple.com, log in and add whatever e-mails you wish. You are not obligated to stick with one e-mail address as your Apple ID for your entire life.
 
I want what I want...

Look, all I want is to be able to sync my calendars from work, home, and iPhone (and to get alerts).

And to share photo albums with certain people (without having to deal with the privacy "shell game" of Facebook or MySpace).

But $99/yr is just too much for that convenience. I've switched to Google and, although it's not as convenient, for an extra $99 in my pocket every year, it sure feels better.

Get back to me when it's free (ad-supported through me.com would be fine). Or, I'd be willing to pay (one-time) $10 with $2, whole-increment version upgrades.

Currently looking at CalenGoo for $7. Hmmmm....
 
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cvaldes said:
You can associate multiple e-mail addresses to your Apple ID.

Go to http://appleid.apple.com, log in and add whatever e-mails you wish. You are not obligated to stick with one e-mail address as your Apple ID for your entire life.
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Ive tried this, but because my Apple ID is my @live.co.uk, I try to add my @me.com email to the list of addresses, it tells me that I cannot do it because the @me.com is apparently another Apple ID.
 
I didn't read every post in this thread but...

I hope Steve's answer lies in the fact that they have that massive data center coming online soon. Dedication to enhancing Mobile Me and Facetime would be a sweet use of all that capacity IMO.

Just sayin...
 
Burnt_Toast said:
Look, all I want is to be able to sync my calendars from work, home, and iPhone (and to get alerts).

Get back to me when it's free (ad-supported through me.com would be fine). Or, I'd be willing to pay (one-time) $10 with $2, whole-increment version upgrades.
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If it's ad-supported, then it's no better than Google. And it won't be a one time price because they're providing you an ongoing surface.

How would you feel if your customers demanded you charge them once but are obligated to provide them service, out of pocket, for life. I'm not sure how you would stay in business that way.
 
MobileMe can be had for $60 if you watch for deals on Amazon and elsewhere. That's $5/month.

How much cheaper can it get? If you are fine with Google using your data to sell you stuff, then fine. But I'll take MobileMe over that thanks. That combined with iLife integration, sync, online access is worth way more than $5/month.

Even if I could find all those services elsewhere for free, my time is not free. The time involved juggling all those services is worth more than $5/month.

I'll stick with MobileMe, thanks.
 
theBigD23 said:
ToDos:
Syncs in Calendar on me.com & Computer
Cannot make changes to ToDos on any iOS device

Very odd that for Notes you cannot make changes on me.com and ToDos on any iOS device. It's very disjointed.
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This is one glaring feature that needs to be added by Apple on all iOS devices. Yes, 3rd party Todo apps work ok, but it needs to just work with the tasks under iCal without any 3rd party tools.
 
Very happy with the push sync of the mail/bookmark/contact.

The new calendar however needs a lot of work. It constantly fails to push.
 
garethjs said:
Very happy with the push sync of the mail/bookmark/contact.

The new calendar however needs a lot of work. It constantly fails to push.
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Yes, this is true for me to. However I am finding Mobile Email at MobileMe to my computer takes a lot longer to go get email on all three of my Macs. This has just started happen a couple of weeks ago and it is getting worse. Plus this is not a my Macs since I just got my Mac Mini.
 
viizi said:
I'd love to use mobile me unfortunately Australian internet is still with the dinosaurs. Almost dial up speeds and tiny download limits.
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Dont know who you are through ..... Im getting 8MB/s with 100GB 50 on 50 off .... And for only $59 ..
Far from dail-up and im struggling using 100gb *shrugs*
 
McScooby said:
I just got an email saying "update to the new Mobileme..." shame it was only the calendar app, probably the least thing I use
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I never updated to the new Calendar format, so i see that message every so often when logging in on me.com. Hope I'm never forced to update to the new Calendar format. I like the current one just fine.
 
chillywilly said:
I never updated to the new Calendar format, so i see that message every so often when logging in on me.com. Hope I'm never forced to update to the new Calendar format. I like the current one just fine.
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Are you sure this is the same? The only other update I thought was when the new layout came out of beta, this quotes calendar sharing and the requirements on iphone is 4.2, not that I'll be using it though!
 
McScooby said:
Are you sure this is the same? The only other update I thought was when the new layout came out of beta, this quotes calendar sharing and the requirements on iphone is 4.2, not that I'll be using it though!
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I think it's the same. Logging into me.com and going to the Calendar, in the lower let corner is a banner that says "upgrade now" and talks about sharing and invitations. Plus, the layout of the calendar is different (from screen shots I've seen elsewhere on the web).
 
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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While I trust apple slightly more then google, I don't consider MobileMe as secure. Apple is following in google's footsteps with iAd and are much more secretive on what is going on behind the scenes. For this reason I use http://www.addressbookserver.com and run my own server. So I can control who sees what data. Call me a control freak if you must.
 
chillywilly said:
I think it's the same. Logging into me.com and going to the Calendar, in the lower let corner is a banner that says "upgrade now" and talks about sharing and invitations. Plus, the layout of the calendar is different (from screen shots I've seen elsewhere on the web).
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Nope, not the same... they FINALLY have proper calendar sharing between others.

I can't believe how quietly this was done... this has been the most criticized missing feature of iCal. Now I can dump Spanning Sync. :)
 
asrai said:
Nope, not the same... they FINALLY have proper calendar sharing between others.

I can't believe how quietly this was done... this has been the most criticized missing feature of iCal. Now I can dump Spanning Sync. :)
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Ahh. Thank you for the clarification on this. I will have to check this out. I'm assuming it was a quiet rollout, without having to update to the new layout.
 
Nobody looks at it

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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This is news to me! It was my understanding that Google's computer algorithm matched advertisements to keywords in the text of your messages automatically, they never opened them or forwarded them to the advertisers to peruse. Seriously, an advertiser is gonna sit there reading through billions of emails to see which one to have his/her ad show up next to in your Gmail inbox?? When did this change? :rolleyes:

As far as your email being more secure in Apple's servers because you're paying for it is horseradish. If a hacker, properly motivated, wants in somebody's server, and they are really, really, really skilled, they will figure out a way. And if they can't get in, it won't be because you sent in your annual payment to that particular company, it WILL be because that company employees highly qualified individuals to secure and monitor their network and servers.

Secondly, your $99 a year isn't much incentive NOT to install an algorithm to comb your text for keywords, since they would make WAY more money from selling ad space in your email box than from you.
 
Want to fix the 'many duplicates' syncing problem?

Turn OFF info syncing in iTunes.

That's it. I seem to be the only one who's figured it out so far, but if you have Mobile Me, set up your sync prefs in SysPrefs, and de-select everything under your device's 'Info' tab in iTunes.

Voila (as the french say - and "walla" as the americans spell).
 
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