I just don't get it. Why should one PAY for Mobile me?

[OneFastSkater]

OK so I signed up for 2 months free - I'm totally underwhelmed

I just ditched a 2+ year old Palm based Treo to get a new spanky iPhone. What a big improvement that was, but MobileMe is soooo lame. For example you cannot establish or set an alarm for calendar events. You have to be kidding me. I'm also struggling with the fact that MobileMe contacts are the center of the universe. If I enter a new contact on the iPhone it will get erased at the next synch. Yikes and they want me to pay for this service in two months!?! I don't get it.

 

[zerosnipe]

I think its worth it in the long run. I have had it since it was iTools and than when they started to charge for it I waited a little bit to get but I have used it since I believe 2002 or so. I have more pictures on my idisk than anything since they have been collecting for about 6 years, all my contacts are there, bookmarks, calender events, a basic backup of important stuff. I think it is awesome like when I just installed vista all I had to do was install the sync client and all of my bookmarks and everything were on my computer without having to do anything. It might be a little overpriced but I like it.

 

[TLewis]

If I enter a new contact on the iPhone it will get erased at the next synch.

Something's wrong with your setup. If you have configured your iPhone for push contacts, new contacts entered on the iPhone should be properly transferred to MobileMe, and new contacts entered in MobileMe should be properly transferred to the iPhone. You shouldn't be losing any contact information (unless, maybe, you edited the same contact simultaneously in both places).

Yeah, the lack of calendar alarms sucks, but you can always set the calendar alarms on the iPhone. They don't appear in MobileMe, but they're still there on the iPhone.

 

[TLewis]

For example you cannot establish or set an alarm for calendar events.

I just noticed that MobileMe will sync Outlook 2007 reminders to the iPhone. I have an appointment in Outlook with a 5 minute reminder, and the reminder got properly pushed to the iPhone. It doesn't show up in MobileMe, though.

I imagine that something similar happens on the mac.

(What really makes me happy is that this appointment w/a 5 min popup reminder was originally created in Google Calendar. The appointment got sync'd from GC to Outlook, and then sync'd again from Outlook to MobileMe. A bit messy, but nice.)