Are people having these other problems?
I can confirm that on my iPod Touch, changes made to the iPod's calendar show up at me.com quickly (in about a minute). Changes made at me.com show up in the iPod's calendar quickly, too. But changes made on the iPod or me.com do not show up in iCal, or vice versa, until there is a scheduled sync event (I'm running 10.4.11, so that's once an hour). This makes it easy to inadvertently create multiple instances or states of the same event on different devices.
Emails push correctly to the iPod Touch from Mail.app and from me.com. But me.com does not immediately show the true state of my email in Mail.app or on the iPod. Sometimes (as was true of the old-fashioned mac.com, too) I have to force the inbox to refresh itself and come up to date by trying to delete an already-deleted email.
The colors of calendar events, as originally established in iCal, are correct at me.com, but arbitrary, and wrong, on the iPod. Has anyone else noticed this?
Finally, I can't really say whether modifications to contacts are pushing correctly between me.com and the iPod or not, because only name and company fields display at me.com. All other fields are unpopulated, though all my data is in fact intact, and 'safe,' even if unviewable--it's still showing up in Address Book and on the iPod.
Finally, I can confirm that this constitutes false advertising on Apple's part. We have push email, but not push email, contacts, and calendars across our different devices. Contacts and calendars are only pushing (and at that only with the bugs mentioned--incorrect calendar colors, and missing contact fields) between the iPod and the cloud itself, not between the cloud and any other device. It is possible to view the cloud via Safari from the other devices, but the applications on the devices themselves that are there to handle contacts and calendars--Address Book and iCal--are cut off from the cloud, and do not push to or from it. They sync.
And syncing is not pushing, not matter how frequently you do it. It works entirely differently--and worse, hence Apple's advertising spree to emphasize, specifically and precisely, that we would now be pushing our data between devices instead of syncing--it has different (worse) power-consumption characteristics, and it's slower and more prone to creating corrupt data.
I can confirm that on my iPod Touch, changes made to the iPod's calendar show up at me.com quickly (in about a minute). Changes made at me.com show up in the iPod's calendar quickly, too. But changes made on the iPod or me.com do not show up in iCal, or vice versa, until there is a scheduled sync event (I'm running 10.4.11, so that's once an hour). This makes it easy to inadvertently create multiple instances or states of the same event on different devices.
Emails push correctly to the iPod Touch from Mail.app and from me.com. But me.com does not immediately show the true state of my email in Mail.app or on the iPod. Sometimes (as was true of the old-fashioned mac.com, too) I have to force the inbox to refresh itself and come up to date by trying to delete an already-deleted email.
The colors of calendar events, as originally established in iCal, are correct at me.com, but arbitrary, and wrong, on the iPod. Has anyone else noticed this?
Finally, I can't really say whether modifications to contacts are pushing correctly between me.com and the iPod or not, because only name and company fields display at me.com. All other fields are unpopulated, though all my data is in fact intact, and 'safe,' even if unviewable--it's still showing up in Address Book and on the iPod.
Finally, I can confirm that this constitutes false advertising on Apple's part. We have push email, but not push email, contacts, and calendars across our different devices. Contacts and calendars are only pushing (and at that only with the bugs mentioned--incorrect calendar colors, and missing contact fields) between the iPod and the cloud itself, not between the cloud and any other device. It is possible to view the cloud via Safari from the other devices, but the applications on the devices themselves that are there to handle contacts and calendars--Address Book and iCal--are cut off from the cloud, and do not push to or from it. They sync.
And syncing is not pushing, not matter how frequently you do it. It works entirely differently--and worse, hence Apple's advertising spree to emphasize, specifically and precisely, that we would now be pushing our data between devices instead of syncing--it has different (worse) power-consumption characteristics, and it's slower and more prone to creating corrupt data.
thanks anyways though
