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POLL: Are you pleased with MobileMe?
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I don't think it is. I am assuming Apple trusts itself to keep your iDisk data secure, so they didn't put a "Time Machine iDisk" feature in Leopard. lol
That's not why I want it. I want it to be able to go back to older versions of stuff I keep on my iDisk. Or to recover stuff I accidentally trashed. That's why I use Dropbox now instead of iDisk -- works great.
Yeah, that kinda sucks, but I just use iDisk as offsite backup of my local files anyways. And since all my local files are "Time Machine compatible" as it were, I guess it never bothered me
Sorry Mobile Me, your time is up.
I am going to cancel my subscription. The free Google web app is just so much better and shows up on my iphone web browser just as quick. I can use subscriptions on Google calendar to subscribe to my Project management programs. I just can not justify paying $100 for a product that is not as good as a free web application. I have to go with the company (Google) that gives the consumer what they need, not what Apple thinks I need.
Later, Macrosoft-
I am going to cancel my subscription. The free Google web app is just so much better and shows up on my iphone web browser just as quick. I can use subscriptions on Google calendar to subscribe to my Project management programs. I just can not justify paying $100 for a product that is not as good as a free web application. I have to go with the company (Google) that gives the consumer what they need, not what Apple thinks I need.
Later, Macrosoft-
Mixed platform (Mac and Windows) is buggy as hell
I terminated my free trial less than six hours into it. Outlook support is so buggy that I ended up with 250 contacts in Outlook (the correct number), 36 on the cloud and things were wedged so badly (yes, I performed numerous sync resets of both contacts and calendar) that I cold not update the cloud from Outlook.
Again, like most things Apple, if your environment is 100% Apple products, things work fairly well. However, if your environment necessitates any MS products at all, you're basically screwed. Not that this all Apple's fault, but they do advertise MobileMe as "Exchange for the rest of us." We just had no idea that they really meant "Exchange bugs and headaches for the rest of us."
MobileMe is no better than Plaxo, which also managed to munge up my data in about the same amount of time.
Overall grade for MobileMe is D--. Can't award an F because they did show up long enough to launch it.
I terminated my free trial less than six hours into it. Outlook support is so buggy that I ended up with 250 contacts in Outlook (the correct number), 36 on the cloud and things were wedged so badly (yes, I performed numerous sync resets of both contacts and calendar) that I cold not update the cloud from Outlook.
Again, like most things Apple, if your environment is 100% Apple products, things work fairly well. However, if your environment necessitates any MS products at all, you're basically screwed. Not that this all Apple's fault, but they do advertise MobileMe as "Exchange for the rest of us." We just had no idea that they really meant "Exchange bugs and headaches for the rest of us."
MobileMe is no better than Plaxo, which also managed to munge up my data in about the same amount of time.
Overall grade for MobileMe is D--. Can't award an F because they did show up long enough to launch it.
Ding ding ding... we have a winner.
The pattern I see is that all the raves are from veteran forum members (Problems? What problems?). I would guess that the vast majority of those folks use nothing but Apple products. MM works brilliantly in that context. Just as advertised.
Many of the complaints are from newbie members like myself. Now, I'm not a newbie to computing (I write software manuals for a Fortune 100 company), I've just recently decided to make my home desktop a Mac for all the excellent reasons people do that. It just works.
However, I suspect that most of my newbie friends MUST use Outlook/Exchange for our work. We are hoping that Apple got the iPhone and ME as right as they got the iMac so that we can (once again) tie our lives together and be confident about our appointments, phone numbers and emails, wherever we might be (work, home or on the road). I mean, that's what ME promises, right?
The promise of iPhone/ME in this latter context is pure marketing-driven vaporware. I doesn't work. It's busted. It's worse than non-operational - it will corrupt your data and screw your life up if you trust it. It's like handling a cobra, the moment you turn your attention away, you have a big problem on your hands (Didn't I have a meeting this afternoon? I was sure I saw that on my work calendar, but not in my iPhone? Jeez, the driving directions were in the appointment notes field. What was that person's name?).
Again, if one's personal experience is limited to one iPhone, one or two Macs and ME, life seems grand. The emperor does indeed look splendid in his new clothes and the kool-aid tastes great!
The pattern I see is that all the raves are from veteran forum members (Problems? What problems?). I would guess that the vast majority of those folks use nothing but Apple products. MM works brilliantly in that context. Just as advertised.
Many of the complaints are from newbie members like myself. Now, I'm not a newbie to computing (I write software manuals for a Fortune 100 company), I've just recently decided to make my home desktop a Mac for all the excellent reasons people do that. It just works.
However, I suspect that most of my newbie friends MUST use Outlook/Exchange for our work. We are hoping that Apple got the iPhone and ME as right as they got the iMac so that we can (once again) tie our lives together and be confident about our appointments, phone numbers and emails, wherever we might be (work, home or on the road). I mean, that's what ME promises, right?
The promise of iPhone/ME in this latter context is pure marketing-driven vaporware. I doesn't work. It's busted. It's worse than non-operational - it will corrupt your data and screw your life up if you trust it. It's like handling a cobra, the moment you turn your attention away, you have a big problem on your hands (Didn't I have a meeting this afternoon? I was sure I saw that on my work calendar, but not in my iPhone? Jeez, the driving directions were in the appointment notes field. What was that person's name?).
Again, if one's personal experience is limited to one iPhone, one or two Macs and ME, life seems grand. The emperor does indeed look splendid in his new clothes and the kool-aid tastes great!
The first few hours — days even were pretty rocky… to say the least.
But now it is running fine and a great improvement over .Mac (but I am still using my old @mac.com address and probably never use the ugly @me.com.)
For my use it is great and fits the bill…
But, as always YMMV.
It works. Why should I complain if something does work?
If it doesn't fit your spec then use something else.
Simple, isn't it?
No need for Kool-Aid… just common sense.
But now it is running fine and a great improvement over .Mac (but I am still using my old @mac.com address and probably never use the ugly @me.com.)
For my use it is great and fits the bill…
But, as always YMMV.
Ad what exactly is wrong with having an iPhone and being able to sync it between my 4 Macs?
It works. Why should I complain if something does work?
If it doesn't fit your spec then use something else.
Simple, isn't it?
No need for Kool-Aid… just common sense.
It only works for your MobileMe account, and basically what it does is notifies your iPhone as soon as new mail arrives, so you don't have to manually check for it.
You are using 50% of the advertised features...
Your point of view is only valid if you ignore the fact that Apple is selling this based on being able to tie together Macs, PCs and phones. The PC part doesn't work.
It just amazes how incredibly self-referential this Apple culture is. "I don't personally have a problem, so none exists." Really, that kind of myopic thinking and reasoning won't get one very far in the real world.
Lemme guess... you are between the ages of 22 and 28? Wonder how I knew that?
Your point of view is only valid if you ignore the fact that Apple is selling this based on being able to tie together Macs, PCs and phones. The PC part doesn't work.
It just amazes how incredibly self-referential this Apple culture is. "I don't personally have a problem, so none exists." Really, that kind of myopic thinking and reasoning won't get one very far in the real world.
Lemme guess... you are between the ages of 22 and 28? Wonder how I knew that?
The first few hours days even were pretty rocky to say the least.
But now it is running fine and a great improvement over .Mac (but I am still using my old @mac.com address and probably never use the ugly @me.com.)
For my use it is great and fits the bill
But, as always YMMV.
Ad what exactly is wrong with having an iPhone and being able to sync it between my 4 Macs?
It works. Why should I complain if something does work?
If it doesn't fit your spec then use something else.
Simple, isn't it?
No need for Kool-Aid just common sense.
PC part does work. Fair enough it is only accessible in a web browser but it does work perfectly fine. It isn't Apple's fault Microsoft is behind technologies with IE7.
Really, for me, I have no problems at all with MobileMe. Now Apple has come forward and actually outlined what they meant by push (which is disappointing for lack of push from Mac to Me) everything is all in working order.
And what has age got to do with anything? Bringing age into this just outlines how shallow you are - let me guess, you are older and feel wiser than anyone younger than you? You won't get very far with that kind of reasoning in the real world
IE7 has nothing to do with it. Outlook 2003 does NOT work. Not even a little bit
Apple is MOST definitely marketing the ability to sync Outlook (and Exchange) email, contacts and calendars. Search the forums here... absolutely no one running Outlook 2003 has been able to modify anything and have it reflected in the cloud. So Outlook support is broken. It don't work. A web-based portal to inaccurate data is completely worthless. My colleagues are not going to access my ME calendar to schedule a meeting.
Personally, I don't give a rip about IE. I'm forced to use it, but as part of my trial subscription proof of concept deal, I happily installed Safari on my PC, I just couldn't make it my default browser.
Apple is MOST definitely marketing the ability to sync Outlook (and Exchange) email, contacts and calendars. Search the forums here... absolutely no one running Outlook 2003 has been able to modify anything and have it reflected in the cloud. So Outlook support is broken. It don't work. A web-based portal to inaccurate data is completely worthless. My colleagues are not going to access my ME calendar to schedule a meeting.
Personally, I don't give a rip about IE. I'm forced to use it, but as part of my trial subscription proof of concept deal, I happily installed Safari on my PC, I just couldn't make it my default browser.
PC part does work. Fair enough it is only accessible in a web browser but it does work perfectly fine. It isn't Apple's fault Microsoft is behind technologies with IE7.
Really, for me, I have no problems at all with MobileMe. Now Apple has come forward and actually outlined what they meant by push (which is disappointing for lack of push from Mac to Me) everything is all in working order.
And what has age got to do with anything? Bringing age into this just outlines how shallow you are - let me guess, you are older and feel wiser than anyone younger than you? You won't get very far with that kind of reasoning in the real world
You actually don't know that since you are wrong.
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And please don't lecture me on the "real world".
Aso please point out to me in my post where I said no problem exists for others? I said I am OK with the service. In answer to the thread's question: "Are you Pleased with MobileMe?"
I was speaking for myself. Something you seem unable to do.
So stop with the sweeping generalisations. You do your "argument" no favours…
I just upgraded my 1st Gen iphone to the new 2.0 software and Pwned it to work on Tmobile. It works great! I have my mobileme and work MSExchange set up and it's all synced up and working.
Push Email is when the Server receives the mail it is Pushed to your iPhone within seconds where non-Push email is Fetched by iPhone, normally every 15 min.
If you only want Push Email then Yahoo Push is pretty much the same. And it is Free. However, I also would like Over the Air (OTA) Sync of Contacts and Calendar and that and other things is what you get with MobileMe.
Also, I paid Yahoo $25 (I think) for the Plus version so I would not see Advertisements in the Web Interface. So for me Yahoo Push was not Free.
Toss It!
One day after getting it my computer stopped synching with my iPhone and desktop PC. It seems to be synching contacts, but not my calendar; crucial to me. Manually synching with iTunes wasn't such a big deal, but this sounded even better when described (sold) to me. What bothers me the most is that none of the "geniuses" at the Apple Store seem to know what to do about it.
One day after getting it my computer stopped synching with my iPhone and desktop PC. It seems to be synching contacts, but not my calendar; crucial to me. Manually synching with iTunes wasn't such a big deal, but this sounded even better when described (sold) to me. What bothers me the most is that none of the "geniuses" at the Apple Store seem to know what to do about it.I don't have an iPhone so I haven't really fully utilized the potential of the service but I do use two Macs, (iMac, for home and the MB, w/c I bring anywhere) that I synch on a regular basis. not to mention my office secretary (w/ her PC) who keeps track of my iCal and address book through MobileMe. so far, it has been very helpful. no major glitches as far as that's concerned. of course, I didnt really mind the 1 month extension that Apple recently gave.
I am a Windows User not speaking from Mac experience. From what I have heard over and over from Mac Users is that Apple Products just work and they are very simple and use. My experience with iPhone seems to bare that out. So maybe now is their first real challenge when a product just does not work out of the box. My guess is they will either be trained quickly or Apple will release a fix that removes the need to be trained in the various workarounds needed to make it work.
my ical still won't synch with mobile me or my laptop so not pleased at all. I use this to keep my business calendar on my machines in synch and was hoping to keep my iphone in synch without having to plug it in but it isn't working. (and the last 3 days I can't view anything online in the calendar, the spinning just keeps going and going but no cal ever comes up) emailed me support a few times and only one generic response sending me back to some support docs.
my ical still won't synch with mobile me or my laptop so not pleased at all. I use this to keep my business calendar on my machines in synch and was hoping to keep my iphone in synch without having to plug it in but it isn't working. (and the last 3 days I can't view anything online in the calendar, the spinning just keeps going and going but no cal ever comes up) emailed me support a few times and only one generic response sending me back to some support docs.
I had a interesting problem this AM. I logged into MobileMe and noticed that the only calendar entries there were my Birthday entries. I tried a refresh with no luck. I realized that they did maintenance last night so I was wondering if I lost my entries like others (I have 3 calendars). So I went into my Outlook (Windows Vista) and all my entries were ok. I check my iPhone and they were all there. So I then went into MobileMe Preferences (on my pc) and turned off Automatically Sync (just in case) and noticed that my license was extended by 30 days as promised in the letter (that I did not receive). I then went back to MM in my browser (using Safari Browser most of the time instead of IE) and my calendar entries were still not there. So I was starting to wonder if this is the "no sync problem others are reporting" since my entries were not displaying but I know/think they are there. So I then went into Account Settings (requires login) and notice the 30 day extention there. I then went back into the Calendar and now all my entires were displayed. I wonder if the login to Account Settings had something to do with it?????
Also, did you ever create a dummy group in your calendar in MobileMe Web. I had to do that in the beginning to stop the connection errors.