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POLL: Are you pleased with MobileMe?

Are you Pleased with MobileMe?

  • No

    Votes: 129 51.2%

  • Yes

    Votes: 123 48.8%
  • Total voters
    252
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dauerhippo

macrumors regular
Jul 10, 2008
186
0
I tried mobile me. It just didn't work for me, and it forces you to use an @me.com email address. Yeah, you can forward your other addresses to me.com, but then your inboxes won't be in sync.

For those of you who use Gmail, Gcal and Gmail contacts, try nuevasync (http://www.nuevasync.com). It's free, and offers exchange-like synchronization and push to your iphone's calendar and contacts from Gmail contacts and Gcal. It works amazingly. I'm perfectly content using that and gmail IMAP.

If Apple would let you use MobileMe to check other mail accounts and keep them in sync (like Blackberrys do), then I think it might be worthwhile.
 
Sky Blue

Sky Blue

Guest
Jan 8, 2005
6,856
11
dauerhippo said:
I tried mobile me. It just didn't work for me, and it forces you to use an @me.com email address. Yeah, you can forward your other addresses to me.com, but then your inboxes won't be in sync.
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What did you think it would 'force' you to use? That's like signing up for hotmail and expecting a gmail.com address.
 
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Daveoc64

macrumors 601
Jan 16, 2008
4,075
95
Bristol, UK
My biggest disappointment with MobileMe is the poor browser support.

They claim it's due to "web standards", but they shut out many browsers with standards compliance because they aren't on Windows or Mac OS X.

Firefox 3 on Linux is unsupported despite having just as good compatibility as the versions for Mac and Windows.

Apple just wants to claim that all these other browsers are poorly made, when it is their site that is poorly made.

As for "older" browsers, I get that they are using very modern technology to provide a rich experience, but it would be a LOT better if they could offer a basic experience to users of other browsers. MobileMe is supposed to be about accessing your services everywhere. Safari and Firefox are used in very few places. If the only place I can use me.com is my computers, what's the point?
 
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Diaresi

macrumors regular
Aug 23, 2007
242
0
Daveoc64 said:
My biggest disappointment with MobileMe is the poor browser support.

They claim it's due to "web standards", but they shut out many browsers with standards compliance because they aren't on Windows or Mac OS X.

Firefox 3 on Linux is unsupported despite having just as good compatibility as the versions for Mac and Windows.

Apple just wants to claim that all these other browsers are poorly made, when it is their site that is poorly made.

As for "older" browsers, I get that they are using very modern technology to provide a rich experience, but it would be a LOT better if they could offer a basic experience to users of other browsers. MobileMe is supposed to be about accessing your services everywhere. Safari and Firefox are used in very few places. If the only place I can use me.com is my computers, what's the point?
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That's one of my major problems (and why I voted "No"). Guess what? Gmail does all that you ask just there...for free...
 
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dauerhippo

macrumors regular
Jul 10, 2008
186
0
Sky Blue said:
What did you think it would 'force' you to use? That's like signing up for hotmail and expecting a gmail.com address.
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Well, with blackberries, you can add other IMAP accounts, and it will push them to your device and keep them in sync. Since it advertised that it syncs with mail.app, I was hoping it would sync ALL the accounts i have in mail.app, but it seems that it only works with .me. Who the hell uses a .me email address?
 
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Aquafina8

macrumors newbie
Jul 16, 2008
2
0
for me it is not working reliably. whenever I think it's working calendar entries go missing. It doesn't work reliably with outlook and my reason for getting the service was to keep my work and home calendars and contacts up-to-date and this doesn't work for me.
 
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bluenoise

macrumors 6502a
Jul 16, 2008
756
0
I am very disappointed, too. Here are my gripes...

- No reminders in calendar events. I don't actually want them for the online calendar, but I definitely want them for my iPhone. I should be able to create an event in my MM calendar and specify an alert, but there's no option for that. If I want to have to actually look at my calendar on the go, I'd just use a paper-based one. I can write in an appointment a lot faster than I can create an event with my iPhone or MM.

- The MM web apps are so slow they're useless. I use Yahoo's webapp email and it rocks. It rivals any desktop app I've ever used. And it pushes, too.

- I don't want a new email address. I already have one that works just fine that I wish would integrate with the MM service.

- I wish there was a way to sync the iPhone's notes with something like MM. That's not a big deal, but I thought I'd mention it in case someone can show me there's a good way to do this.

Previous to MM, I was using Outlook on my work PC and it would sync with Plaxo. I had the Plaxo Premium subscription so it would keep my Windows Mobile device synched over-the-air to my contacts and calendar. I could enter events into my Outlook calendar and see it rippled through to my iCal at home and my WM phone. This cost me about $50/year. Apple's demonstration of MM at the keynote got me all excited to be able to finally punt that junk to the curb, but now I'm disappointed by the flaws I've listed above. I don't feel like I'm getting $99 worth of product here.

Don't get me wrong...I absolutely love Apple's products and was counting the seconds until I could ditch that blight called Windows Mobile, but there are actually some things I'm missing right now from my old setup and phone.
 
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onemac

macrumors newbie
Jul 14, 2008
8
0
Have to hand it to the Apple Store

Took my Mobile Me box back to the Apple Store and the associate stated that they do not take back software. When I explained to him what the issues were, he politely asked for my credit card so he could credit my account.

I am a big fan of Apple hardware and OS, but they need to find someone who knows what they are doing with online programs. This is a huge black eye for their reputation.

It is going to be interesting to see what the PC guy sez about Mobile Me.
 
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kolax

macrumors G3
Mar 20, 2007
9,181
115
Daveoc64 said:
My biggest disappointment with MobileMe is the poor browser support.

As for "older" browsers, I get that they are using very modern technology to provide a rich experience, but it would be a LOT better if they could offer a basic experience to users of other browsers. MobileMe is supposed to be about accessing your services everywhere. Safari and Firefox are used in very few places. If the only place I can use me.com is my computers, what's the point?
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It is down to web standards - MobileMe uses Web 2.0 applications.
 
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ToneMonkey

macrumors member
Oct 5, 2007
54
0
WOW. Satisfaction dropping...

Was 53/47 satisfied two days ago. Now, 51/49 unsatisfied.

What a steaming pile.
 
Scooterman1

Scooterman1

macrumors 6502a
May 15, 2008
939
12
Houston, Tx
Why did you post this as a POLL when you don't have that user access? No voting buttons.

As for my opinion.... If it were a NEW service, I would say 'Give Apple a break because they are new at this'.

But they have had .Mac, which people complained about not having enough features. Maybe now we know why. Apple doesn't seem to have the expertise to run something on the Web that MS runs in businesses.

No, I'm not satisfied with MobileMe. I had high expectations since it was Apple.
 
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ViperrepiV

macrumors regular
Jan 25, 2008
198
26
How can mobile me not work with corporate proxies and firewalls. Apple updater seems to do just fine!
 
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Diaresi

macrumors regular
Aug 23, 2007
242
0
Kilamite said:
It is down to web standards - MobileMe uses Web 2.0 applications.
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Yet they block Firefox 3 on Linux. And Opera in general.

It's another feature they promised but failed to deliver on!

I'm all for web standards, but having a website 70% (is it?) of people can't access is pretty dumb. All people want is a basic Web 1.0 site just so they can read their email on IE6/7.

Not to mention on Windows you need either Safari or Firefox to access MobileMe...but then it'll only sync Safari or IE bookmarks. Yeah, like Apple aren't giving you a gentle nudge to use a certain browser there.
 
cloudnine

cloudnine

macrumors 6502a
Jul 3, 2006
532
0
San Francisco, CA
Just my two cents...

Honestly, I don't even know why I'm bothering posting anything about my experience with MobileMe... I mean, it seems as though everyone has a different story about their experience, I'm just adding more fodder to the pile :p

But, I'm bored and tired of studying, so... here goes :p

I like the MobileMe website... the fact that my email, contacts, calendars, photo galleries and idisk are all accessible on one site is pretty damn cool. I also like how I haven't had to worry about syncing my email between my PowerBook and iMac and iPhone... "it just works". Same with contacts and calendars (although I'm not great at keeping a calendar, so I haven't kept notice as to whether or not everything is updated immediately)...

The only two complaints I have are: 1. When typing an email on the MobileMe site, it doesn't autocomplete the email addresses like when it was previewed at WWDC (or was it MacWorld? Both seem ages ago already...), and 2. The "Share a File" button in iDisk still isn't there.

Not huge problems by any stretch of the imagination, but still sort of a pain when you consider that they were shown off as being new features and now they're not there :/ Besides that, though, I pretty much love MobileMe... it's been really stable for me and thankfully I haven't had any data loss like some others :)
 
queshy

queshy

macrumors 68040
Apr 2, 2005
3,690
4
If it worked I'd be pleased with it. It just doesn't seem to be working reliably enough for me to pay for it.

iDisk is mad slow, too. I thought it would be a way to keep all my uni. stuff synced across two macs, but I guess not.
 
macduke

macduke

macrumors G5
Jun 27, 2007
13,473
20,535
I haven't had any problems since the initial launch, and now my mail.app is receiving push email within seconds so I'm a happy camper.
 
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KiwiLee

macrumors member
Jul 16, 2008
65
0
Wellington, NZ
macduke said:
I haven't had any problems since the initial launch, and now my mail.app is receiving push email within seconds so I'm a happy camper.
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Can i forward all my emails to your address please and you can phone me and read them to me? ;)
Only kidding, but seriously glad for you, sadly some of us still have a service that doesn't work. My family is over 18000kms away and they been sending me mail apparently, and i have none of them, and only just found that out... Amongst other things.

I trying to stay calm, but struggling.. Sadly i today let all my contacts know my gmail address, as i cant now trust Apple with my important mail, which is such a shame it really is..
 
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