Me, both work and private life have been drastically effected through this unfortunately.
Maybe because he was the only person in the world using it at that time and so the servers could cope.
What happens when I am not connected to the internet??
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Me, both work and private life have been drastically effected through this unfortunately.
Maybe because he was the only person in the world using it at that time and so the servers could cope.
What happens when I am not connected to the internet??
Wipe the Kool-Aid off your bib.
And you blame voodoo math for Apple's poor numbers. How are they going to make five nines? Steve Jobs' reality distortion field can't make a year longer.
Welcome to Apple. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Thanks for playing!
Hey, I'm the first one to criticize Apple when I feel it's necessary; I'm not a die-hard fanboy with decades of Apple loyalty. And in this case, they indeed deserved a beating for launching Firmware 2.0, The App store, and the whole MobileMe suite at the same time they were trying to sell and activate a million new iPhone 3G units, not to mention releasing MobileMe without adequate testing...
However, although the launch period was a disaster, give them some time to work everything out. Although a week or two may seem like a lot to consumers, those who have worked on or seen a major service rollout know that it can take weeks and even months to have all the bugs worked out. Current customers should just hold on, and those looking to join should let a few more weeks go by so Apple can get everything straightened up.
I'd be willing to bet that MobileMe will soon become an excellent service, and will be very popular along with new iPhone purchases this holiday season...
However, although the launch period was a disaster, give them some time to work everything out. Although a week or two may seem like a lot to consumers, those who have worked on or seen a major service rollout know that it can take weeks and even months to have all the bugs worked out. Current customers should just hold on, and those looking to join should let a few more weeks go by so Apple can get everything straightened up.
I'd be willing to bet that MobileMe will soon become an excellent service, and will be very popular along with new iPhone purchases this holiday season...
All the bugs? Sure, that takes awhile. Almost like clockwork we'll have something come in from a customer three weeks after a release.
But it's a small issue. Critical issues that result in days of downtime at launch and extended periods of no service over the next few weeks? You do not let that happen. Not if you know what you're doing, but Apple clearly doesn't know what it's doing.
The history of .Mac doesn't provide much hope for that.
MobileMe is Pathetic
This post (cut and pasted from the Apple support board) seems to sum things up...
As a Windows XP user who has been keeping an open mind to Apple, I've been spending a lot of time in my local Apple store learning more about Apple products. I made the first step into "Apple land" by getting an iPhone 3G, but my MobileMe experience has halted my Apple migration in its tracks. I see the increadibly bad job Apple has done in creating a service like MobileMe that costs $99 per year and except for the push/sync to the iPhone, has only a fraction of the services you get from FREE email providers like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft's hotmail.
In spending time with Apple store employees and listening to their "Apple culture speak", I'm starting to think that Apple may be totally focused on creating products that in some ways are actually overly simple. When I speak with multiple Apple store employees, they tell me how thrilled they are with MobileMe and can't understand why I would want the features so many people on this board are demanding. It's as if these people think I'm a nut and that I can't just get with the Apple culture of "trust all things in Apple". True, Apple has some very cool products on the Macintosh.
With the iPhone 3G and MobileMe, Apple seems to be trying to stick its toe into the water of the "business user", yes there're certainly many business that successfully use Apple products. But Apple has a miniscule slice of the business market share, so there must be a reason why they have not been more successful against Microsoft. Could it be this preoccupation with over simplification?
Anyway, maybe we will never see what I (and a lot of other people) consider to be basic features of a hosted email service such as server side filtering, use of your own domain, the ability to change your outbound email address, etc., etc. Just mess around with gmail, Yahoo mail, and hotmail if you want to sample a smorgasbord of cool/mature features. Maybe Apple wants to keep MobileMe so simple that the far less sophisticated users will be happy and not mess something up. I think for the vast majority (e.g., the rest of us) MobileMe is seriously lacking in not just reliability (that's a whole discussion in itself) but a long list of core features already being offered by the major FREE email providers.
This post (cut and pasted from the Apple support board) seems to sum things up...
As a Windows XP user who has been keeping an open mind to Apple, I've been spending a lot of time in my local Apple store learning more about Apple products. I made the first step into "Apple land" by getting an iPhone 3G, but my MobileMe experience has halted my Apple migration in its tracks. I see the increadibly bad job Apple has done in creating a service like MobileMe that costs $99 per year and except for the push/sync to the iPhone, has only a fraction of the services you get from FREE email providers like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft's hotmail.
In spending time with Apple store employees and listening to their "Apple culture speak", I'm starting to think that Apple may be totally focused on creating products that in some ways are actually overly simple. When I speak with multiple Apple store employees, they tell me how thrilled they are with MobileMe and can't understand why I would want the features so many people on this board are demanding. It's as if these people think I'm a nut and that I can't just get with the Apple culture of "trust all things in Apple". True, Apple has some very cool products on the Macintosh.
With the iPhone 3G and MobileMe, Apple seems to be trying to stick its toe into the water of the "business user", yes there're certainly many business that successfully use Apple products. But Apple has a miniscule slice of the business market share, so there must be a reason why they have not been more successful against Microsoft. Could it be this preoccupation with over simplification?
Anyway, maybe we will never see what I (and a lot of other people) consider to be basic features of a hosted email service such as server side filtering, use of your own domain, the ability to change your outbound email address, etc., etc. Just mess around with gmail, Yahoo mail, and hotmail if you want to sample a smorgasbord of cool/mature features. Maybe Apple wants to keep MobileMe so simple that the far less sophisticated users will be happy and not mess something up. I think for the vast majority (e.g., the rest of us) MobileMe is seriously lacking in not just reliability (that's a whole discussion in itself) but a long list of core features already being offered by the major FREE email providers.
My MobileMe is down again tonight. 
Oh well, I guess I really didn't need to check my e-mail now after all.
Seriously, I'm starting to get really annoyed again that this hasn't been fixed yet.
Update: Luckily a MobileMe on-line chat rep will be available to help me in only 21 minutes....
Oh well, I guess I really didn't need to check my e-mail now after all. Seriously, I'm starting to get really annoyed again that this hasn't been fixed yet.
Update: Luckily a MobileMe on-line chat rep will be available to help me in only 21 minutes....
Long time iTools/.Mac User - how is MobileMe any better?
I've yet to find anything in MobileMe that is better than .Mac was. It just seems to me that I've lost a lot of functionality so people with iPhones can use this service.
When I was on holidays, .Mac changed over to MobileMe and I was suddenly locked out of my email by MobileMe because it doesn't support IE 6 - and most of the internet cafes/vending services I went to only had IE 6
This "upgrade" has been a real fizzer for me.
I've yet to find anything in MobileMe that is better than .Mac was. It just seems to me that I've lost a lot of functionality so people with iPhones can use this service.
When I was on holidays, .Mac changed over to MobileMe and I was suddenly locked out of my email by MobileMe because it doesn't support IE 6 - and most of the internet cafes/vending services I went to only had IE 6
This "upgrade" has been a real fizzer for me.