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Mobile Me an absolute joke

Digital Skunk said:
Not that I feel this way of that, it's just that not everyone is having those issues. I for one haven't had any. It works the way it's supposed to, and iDisk was the biggest improvement of all.

For me, on my DSL connection, iDisk is faster than ever.
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Thats fair enough, I do appreciate that there are many people who are more than happy with it

I can only give my personal experience of it.

.Mac did nearly everything I wanted, MobileMe gives me less

Syncing wise (as I mentioned earlier), MM seems the best thing (and easiest) to use to get data from my Mac to my iPhone, so I cannot really critisize this part as I like it.

Macsterguy said:
This thread is useless...

As WE ALL KNOW, Apple has admitted that mistakes were made and promised to make it ALL WORK AND BE SOMETHING THEY CAN BE PROUD OF by the end of the year... With 90 days free service.

If you don't like the service, don't use it -OR- WAIT TILL 1/1/09 and try it...
If you do like the service use it till 1/1/09 FOR FREE...

If they don't fix the bugs by 1/1/09 - go else where...

Sheeeesh
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Sorry but I disagree

If the system has problems/bugs or whatever and people feel they want to complain about some aspect of it they should be free to do so.

just saying apple have said they will fix it so nobody should complain for 90 days is ridiculous
 
.me not better than .mac

Love my mac but .me is making me crazy. It takes a long time to load and then it takes forever to delete, forward, move, etc. I love my .me address better than my .mac or my gmail so I'm trying to make it work. Good thing they moved the subscription date ahead a few months so I don't feel like it is a rip off - yet.
 
Hello,

I've tried to find a reply, but I did not find it. I want to ask does mobile me synchronizes with entourage as well as with Mail. And does entourage synchronizes at all? I have MacBook, but I am using Entourage, not mail. And I would like to know will they work good with MobileMe. What will happen If I am using Entourage calendar where all my meetings are. I suppose if I will enter a new appointment in my iPhone is Ical, it will not appear in my MacBook Entourage calendar?

Thank you for your help!
 
zygissimo said:
Hello,

I've tried to find a reply, but I did not find it. I want to ask does mobile me synchronizes with entourage as well as with Mail. And does entourage synchronizes at all? I have MacBook, but I am using Entourage, not mail. And I would like to know will they work good with MobileMe. What will happen If I am using Entourage calendar where all my meetings are. I suppose if I will enter a new appointment in my iPhone is Ical, it will not appear in my MacBook Entourage calendar?

Thank you for your help!
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Interestingly enough, MM does not sync with Entourage. Only Mail and Outlook for the PCs.
 
Apple And Mobileme Are A Joke!

:( Entourage does not sync with MobileMe. The strange thing is all the pc users (non apple loyal customers) can use their pc, with microsoft office and sync with MobileMe and even Iphone. BUT loyal APPLE customers who have bought the iphone, mac and decided to buy mac office 2008 with entourage can not! My does apple look after pc users and not mac, iphone users??? :(


zygissimo said:
Hello,

I've tried to find a reply, but I did not find it. I want to ask does mobile me synchronizes with entourage as well as with Mail. And does entourage synchronizes at all? I have MacBook, but I am using Entourage, not mail. And I would like to know will they work good with MobileMe. What will happen If I am using Entourage calendar where all my meetings are. I suppose if I will enter a new appointment in my iPhone is Ical, it will not appear in my MacBook Entourage calendar?

Thank you for your help!
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Learn to use MM

For all those having trouble using MM LEARN BY READING THE PDF MANUAL you might learn something about the product:eek:


just a thought:rolleyes:
 
Primarily iPhone

for someone with iCal, iPhoto, and multiple computers, MM is great. For people like myself, whom have 1 computer that's a PC, and an iPhone, it's not a great service. My contacts birthdays don't even sync with my calendar. Yeah I would use mostly for my iPhone because I'm ALWAYS on the run, would be nice since they're both apple products, that they work the same on the phone, the net, and the computer. That's intergration, not their current services...can't wait for my student loans to make the transfer though.
 
Charlesrking said:
for someone with iCal, iPhoto, and multiple computers, MM is great. For people like myself, whom have 1 computer that's a PC, and an iPhone, it's not a great service. My contacts birthdays don't even sync with my calendar. Yeah I would use mostly for my iPhone because I'm ALWAYS on the run, would be nice since they're both apple products, that they work the same on the phone, the net, and the computer. That's intergration, not their current services...can't wait for my student loans to make the transfer though.
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Yeah, it integrates perfectly with Macs, iPhones, and iPod Touches and so forth.

PC users with iPhones only get about 33% of what MM offers. And many of them don't even have a clue as to what online storage is all about or how to use it.
 
Digital Skunk said:
PC users with iPhones only get about 33% of what MM offers.
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Well, if PC users buy that Apple competitor's product, "Outlook", they end up with most of the MM features: email, calendar, contacts, disk storage, and synchronization. The only real missing features are iPhoto and iWeb. There are free iPhoto replacements on the web, and iWeb appears to be pretty "meh" (no way to use applications like wordpress, a CMS, mediawiki, PHP, etc.).

(I'm still amazed that Apple is virtually requiring PC users to buy an Apple competitor's product to use the iPhone/MM.)
 
IgnatiusTheKing said:
Webmail is a bonus feature, really, and one that is not ever necessary to have in order to use all of MobileMe's features.
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Yes it is, part of the advertised service is that you can access your email from another computer (say a PC at work) and it will sink your email at home on your computer next time you turn it on. You need webmail to do this.
 
TLewis said:
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If it's not Flash or Dreamweaver, it's meh IMHO. I have an iWeb site but I made it from scratch, and not those horrible templates.

The only features that you don't have with MM is the web storage, which can be had from Box.net for a good price, photo galleries, and back to my Mac.

When i did have that rip off DotMac service, I still had to spend an extra $200 a year to get Box.net and web hosting via Gate.com.

The biggest thing MM did for me was consolidate those services into one that costs $99 a year. If I was PC user I'd go crazy keeping track of all of that crap and trying to find support for 6 or so different providers. I went through it with Avid and Boris and HP and Microsoft and Adobe and....
 
Digital Skunk said:
When i did have that rip off DotMac service, I still had to spend an extra $200 a year to get Box.net and web hosting via Gate.com.
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How do you expect your opinion to be taken seriously when you are having this love-fest w/ MobileMe and get on anyone's case who criticizes it because you haven't had any problems. On the other hand there's people here who really liked .mac but because you had issues w/ it you consistently call it a "rip off." Obviously every one who agrees with you "makes sense" so much it hurts.

You've been fortunate w/ your experience which is great, I think I might have the same experience when my MBP arrives...but currently I'm traveling and having a hell of a time getting anything w/ webmail to work on a consistent basis. Right now I NEED to send an email for business reasons and I haven't been able to get into my mail for hours. How is that good in anyway? Perhaps its because I'm on a PC but I doubt it, it worked this afternoon just fine. I never had that problem w/ .Mac so I fail to see how you can justify calling that a rip off. Yes I used .Mac for other purposes as well including 2 websites, iDisk storage etc. I can't wait to be united w/ my new computer but right now I'm a tad pissed and have every right to be so.

Here's what I've been getting far too often these days when simply logging on:
Your MobileMe Mail is currently unavailable.

We apologize for this service interruption and are working hard to resolve the problem.

For more information, please refer to System Status on the MobileMe Support Page
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MowingDevil said:
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1) All I am saying is that MM was much better than .Mac, even with all the webmail outages. .Mac was Gmail on steroids, and Gmail was free. The mail may have worked but syncing more than one device with it was un-Godly. iDisk barely worked on your own Macintosh let alone over the web and on a PC, and your web presence was limited to only HTML, all for $99. Half the features could be free from one or more places, and the rest could be done for cheap somewhere else.

2) I use it in place of the other different services that cost me a fortune

3) Most PC users won't have a need for a lot of the services offered, so it may not be for them.

And lastly

4) If you are experiencing hella problems with it (those outside of the normal range of issues) then check your setting and usage.

Nothing that requires a long verbose post.
 
Digital Skunk said:
1) All I am saying is that MM was much better than .Mac, even with all the webmail outages. .Mac was Gmail on steroids, and Gmail was free.
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Huh? Are you actually saying that MM is better than gmail???

If so, I disagree:
  • Gmail has secure web access. MM does not.
  • Gmail has much better search capabilities. Google search FTW.
  • Gmail has server-side rules/filters. MM has nothing. (Among other things, server-side rules can be used to give you selective mail push, which is very nice if you get lots and lots of email.)
  • Web gmail has (unofficial) third-party app integration, like Remember the Milk and GmailAgenda. MM has diddly.
  • Gmail appears to have higher reliability, and faster responsiveness.
Oh, and before you think that I'm suggesting that people dump MM -- I'm not. I've been a big fan of using both MM and gmail: MM for contacts and calendar, gmail for regular email, and MM push email only for a "you have important/urgent gmail" alarm (yes, "gmail").
 
TLewis said:
Huh? Are you actually saying that MM is better than gmail???
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No, I am saying that .Mac functioned just like Gmail, and Gmail was free. I had been a .Mac user since 2004, and when I got Gmail in 2005, then Box.net in 2006 .Mac started to become more and more of a non-essential.

That's when I was paying the $200+ a year for services that actually worked and made giving proofs to clients easy.

MM isn't the best out of the entire group, but it does work better than .Mac in the parts that suffered the most in .Mac.

I have been experiencing some slowness with Mobile Me since about 4 p.m. today however.. ;)
 
I've never had Gmail so I'll have to take your word on it....webmail aside, you're saying Gmail had features like large online storage....and Homepage where you could build a website and host it for free? ...an area for filesharing? I never felt like it was a good deal or anything but had no idea idea Gmail did all these things.

Hosting video & audio were pretty cool functions when .Mac first came out but YouTube & MySpace made it obsolete pretty darn fast...actually MySpace has made alot of services musicians had to previously pay for completely obsolete. Apple had to update that service big time to keep it even partially relevant. The syncing is the niche w/ the service.
 
We were saying:

If you slice up the individual, major features of .Mac you could get many of them for free or close to the same price.... but it depends on which ones you find most important.

Some people don't need or want a website or to host any content online, so half of the .Mac features were useless to them. Others, needed to share files with others, but iDisk couldn't perform well even on your own Mac at times. That's when I had to pay $100 a year for Box.net.

Most people just used it for webmail, and the other free services did the same or better job at being email clients. So at the time .Mac didn't offer much to even diehard Mac users, or .Mac users still found themselves picking up the services that worked better.

For some, me included, Mobile Me brought us back since Apple improved on many of the features we were having so much problems with.
 
Well anyone who used it for just webmail is either an idiot or the type of pretentious person who buys expensive custom license plates to show off (ie the @mac.com email addy). There's countless free webmail options out there w/o having to drop that kind of coin. The 'build your own website' was the primary selling point of dot Mac together w/ the online webstorage/iDisk. It was extremely limiting but obviously geared towards families and sharing photos/videos/announcements etc.

I'll give you that the file sharing was brutal. I set it up download MP3s and it didn't work half the time. Just frustrating. Although slow as hell, I did appreciate the website feature...myself not being a webdesigner I was creative within the limitations and actually did up a fairly cool website that got lots of positive feedback.
 
My biggest issue with MobileMe is the crappy web interface. It doesn't work anywhere even remotely close to half as well as Gmail. If I delete some messages on my iPhone, then load up the web interface later (even hours later), those messages still remain in my listing. I have to physically select one, then click the delete button in order to force it to update and realize those "ghost" messages are not really there.

Also, when I receive photo attachments from people, instead of showing up right in the email as with Gmail, I simply get an archaic listing of files, then have to manually download them to open them.

Add to that the fact that selecting/viewing emails is slow as dirt and it makes a highly unpleasant experience with using the webmail client. If Gmail offered push email service for the iPhone I'd jump ship from this amateur weekend project.
 
Being a MobileMe user without many (if any at all) problems, I think it is kind've funny to see people arguing about how MobileMe is a "joke" three months after it was released.:p
 
mathcolo said:
Being a MobileMe user without many (if any at all) problems, I think it is kind've funny to see people arguing about how MobileMe is a "joke" three months after it was released.:p
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I would have to agree. Very little problems in these past three months or so.
I am using Mibile Me on my Blackberry and my emails come in just as quickly as on my computer.
 
IMAP on my email from gmx.com - syncs my emails across my iPhone, Mac and Webmail.

Dropbox for my file hosting.

gCal <-> iCal synchronising from within iCal itself.

Why bother with MobileMe?
 
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