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Steve said Mobile Me will be much better in 2011. How?
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Steve Jobs has said that pretty much every time he was asked about iTools, .Mac and now, MobileMe. At least for as long as I care to remember.
So the question is not so much, How? as, When?
Having said that, sucker that I am, I have just renewed for another year.
Hope springs eternal and all that
I think the two things that would drive adoption and respond to market demand are:
1) Way cheaper/free options. Given the cost for Google Apps and other similar services, $99/year per account is simply ridiculous. Just consider it one more thing that Apple would use to lock you into their ecosystem, instead of some kind of money maker.
2) Ability to seamlessly use your own domain. Just have Apple be a domain registrar and then enable full hosting. You can already use the CNAME thing for your iWeb site, but why not email and Gallery and so on. I'd be fine paying a reasonable amount to have a seamless, attractive service that "just worked" with all my apple devices.
But until then it won't really take off.
1) Way cheaper/free options. Given the cost for Google Apps and other similar services, $99/year per account is simply ridiculous. Just consider it one more thing that Apple would use to lock you into their ecosystem, instead of some kind of money maker.
2) Ability to seamlessly use your own domain. Just have Apple be a domain registrar and then enable full hosting. You can already use the CNAME thing for your iWeb site, but why not email and Gallery and so on. I'd be fine paying a reasonable amount to have a seamless, attractive service that "just worked" with all my apple devices.
But until then it won't really take off.
Steve Jobs has said that pretty much every time he was asked about iTools, .Mac and now, MobileMe. At least for as long as I care to remember.
So the question is not so much, How? as, When?
Having said that, sucker that I am, I have just renewed for another year.
Hope springs eternal and all that
Well he's not exactly going to say 'Nah, it's still going to suck'
Reliability and value are the two biggest obstacles, ironically in that order. I did not have a problem paying $60-$99/yr for the service provided it was reliable and had little to no downtime--it would have also been nice to have support actually fix my problems instead of going down a flowchart, too.
If they want people to use it, they need to give it away for free, and charge for added storage. There are just too many free and arguably better alternatives on the market. I'd rather pay Dropbox $99/yr for their service which proactively notifies customers (ala twitter) when there's going to be any downtime, or when the service is having issues and will be brought back online. My experience with MobileMe is that they only update their system status AFTER the issue is resolved to show there WAS an issue but it is now corrected.
Lastly, do not require your customer(s) to email their credit card number, date of birth, and security answer over unsecured email (yes, really) to verify their identity before you can fix the problem. Stop being cheap and roll MobileMe support into AppleCare.
If they want people to use it, they need to give it away for free, and charge for added storage. There are just too many free and arguably better alternatives on the market. I'd rather pay Dropbox $99/yr for their service which proactively notifies customers (ala twitter) when there's going to be any downtime, or when the service is having issues and will be brought back online. My experience with MobileMe is that they only update their system status AFTER the issue is resolved to show there WAS an issue but it is now corrected.
Lastly, do not require your customer(s) to email their credit card number, date of birth, and security answer over unsecured email (yes, really) to verify their identity before you can fix the problem. Stop being cheap and roll MobileMe support into AppleCare.
I have google apps, It's free. You are limited to 50 users and do not get everything that the $99/yr one has to offer. All i use it for is gmail reliability, android/iPhone/iPad intergration, as well as calendar and contacts.
http://www.google.com/apps/
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
They instruct you on how to set EVERYTHING up. (ie. mail.example.com , calendar.example.com and so on.)
Cheers
Speed, speed, speed and more speed.
Speed in iDisk. This thing is ridiculously slow even on the best of days. For the life of me. I can't figure out why even after uploading a file it will still not show up for hours at a time.
Mail - There's been more than a few occasions where having a conversation via mail where individual messages have gotten "lost" for several hours and shown up long after the day is done. Sometimes they just don't show up at all.
Contacts - I know this is a setting somewhere and the forums have a solution for it; but damn I hate getting 4 and 5 copies of the same contact. I clean out the extra contacts resync whatever device and damned if there aren't 5 or more of the same contacts again. Additionally Sometimes I draft an email and Contacts is down and it insists on spinning away while it looks up a "new" contact.
Reliability has gotten better in the last year but the overall service is still down way to much.
Speed in iDisk. This thing is ridiculously slow even on the best of days. For the life of me. I can't figure out why even after uploading a file it will still not show up for hours at a time.
Mail - There's been more than a few occasions where having a conversation via mail where individual messages have gotten "lost" for several hours and shown up long after the day is done. Sometimes they just don't show up at all.
Contacts - I know this is a setting somewhere and the forums have a solution for it; but damn I hate getting 4 and 5 copies of the same contact. I clean out the extra contacts resync whatever device and damned if there aren't 5 or more of the same contacts again. Additionally Sometimes I draft an email and Contacts is down and it insists on spinning away while it looks up a "new" contact.
Reliability has gotten better in the last year but the overall service is still down way to much.
Have a better opening screen
I may have just seen the preview of it. When I went to my MM login page, the background was a lighter shade of blue and the background had oulines/shadows of an iMac, iPhone and iPad. It looked cool, but maybe only because it was different.
Speed to the iDisk is sorely needed!
I may have just seen the preview of it. When I went to my MM login page, the background was a lighter shade of blue and the background had oulines/shadows of an iMac, iPhone and iPad. It looked cool, but maybe only because it was different.
Speed to the iDisk is sorely needed!
Something happening?
Admittedly I am on a train (with pretty slow wifi) but mail on my iPad is complaining of not being able to connect to servers and if I try and got to any of the mobile me websites (login, public folder, etc) it just times out. I can get to other sites ok. Obviously as I am sending this post. Can anyone verify connection issues?
Admittedly I am on a train (with pretty slow wifi) but mail on my iPad is complaining of not being able to connect to servers and if I try and got to any of the mobile me websites (login, public folder, etc) it just times out. I can get to other sites ok. Obviously as I am sending this post. Can anyone verify connection issues?
+4
I have 4 on my family plan and that would be nice, however I am paid up to 2012 so I wonder how they will refund the difference, I hope an iTunes gift card
MobileMe didn't work out for me so I won't be sticking around for 2012. I've had it for two years and it's unfortunately given me nothing but problems--notably with the e-mail and iDisk systems. I decided it wasn't for me and frankly there are more reliable and arguably better services to be had on the Internet now and $99/yr MSRP is a hard pill to swallow. Frankly, it's embarassing that even Microsoft puts out a better "cloud" setup than Apple does.
I submitted a refund through their website two weeks ago for two boxed keys. It took forever for it to go through but it finally did.
I submitted a refund through their website two weeks ago for two boxed keys. It took forever for it to go through but it finally did.
This. ^^
I have 2 domains (personal & business) and both are hosted on Google.
I don't use Google Docs, but the OTA syncing of my mail, calendar and contacts is great for me.
I'm not sure why, but I'd like to use MM, but not until I can move my domains and therefore retain/use my email addresses.
The reason why iWeb and general self-made web-representation has declined and mostly ignored by Apple is due to the social networks popping up in the last 6 years. Unless Apple finds a way to combine MobileMe with a social network of the user's choice across all devices, it may be of relevance again.
Seconded.
If they just make the current offering faster and more reliable, that'd be a huge step forward.
Add customization of the spam filter to my wish list.
-t
Five years ago I trusted Steve Jobs.
He truly appreciated & did a great job for his customers. He would have never acted like he does today. He was not the condescending, insulting individual we heard tell us we didn't know how to hold a cell phone.
Every single word he speaks today is carefully calculated to execute his agenda at all costs. While this translates into terrific sales, I believe Apples sales would be even more astronomical if he was widely respected.
There are many people who have an opinion like mine. Those of us that remember the truly earnest, hardworking, respectful Steve Jobs. The man we appreciated & respected. The man that appreciated those around him, the man who was very successful without practicing manipulation & deception.
Therefore no matter what he says about MobileMe, or anything else for that matter.... I'll believe it when I see it.
His word is vaporware today.
He truly appreciated & did a great job for his customers. He would have never acted like he does today. He was not the condescending, insulting individual we heard tell us we didn't know how to hold a cell phone.
Every single word he speaks today is carefully calculated to execute his agenda at all costs. While this translates into terrific sales, I believe Apples sales would be even more astronomical if he was widely respected.
There are many people who have an opinion like mine. Those of us that remember the truly earnest, hardworking, respectful Steve Jobs. The man we appreciated & respected. The man that appreciated those around him, the man who was very successful without practicing manipulation & deception.
Therefore no matter what he says about MobileMe, or anything else for that matter.... I'll believe it when I see it.
His word is vaporware today.
Maybe its you and your sour opinion that are the "vaporware"...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2011/full_list/
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2011/full_list/
It's sad, but at this point all I want is for it to be comparable to google services now. Little things like being able to search in emails (email bodies) instead of just the header fields would make all the difference.
I assume you mean the poor searching in Mail on iOS?
If so, that's poor implementation in iOS and not a fault with MobileMe.
Add any IMAP, POP3 or Exchange account and they're all the same.
No, I mean from the webmail app. When I search in GMail, it searches the entire email (headers and body) for the search term. When I search in MobileMe mail, it only searches the "to", "from", and "subject" fields, which is basically useless because 99% of the time I'm looking for something really old that relates to the content of the email.
Attachments
Wow, I stand corrected and that is a very big oversight for a mail interface.
I just use Mail.app with MobileMe and it can search any field and the body. It's frustrating when I'm out and need to find something on my phone however...