Will Apple start email service like Google did?

[Gav2k]

You can have an o2 email address if you want to use it but honestly mobile me is perfect. Gets better with every update and tbh I don't use the web interface for mail I use mail lol.

 

[ScottNWDW]

I guess most of the people slagging of MobileMe don't use it or had .mac which was not great. I like MobileMe and have no problems with it.

I do think Apple should make MobileMe free on iPhones, iPod touches and Macs for the first six months. I realise there's a free 60 day trial but how many new users know about that?

If they research their iPhone on the web they wil see the invitation to try MobileMe for 60 days free. Also, when they buy their iPhone at an Apple Store they are told about MobileMe. If they are not sure about plopping down the $99.00 for MobileMe right there, then they are told they can try it for 60 days first by downloading the software from Apple's website. The word is out there, however, people have to turn off their selective hearing.

I started my MobileMe account 3 days before I even had the iPhone 3G. When the 3G came out I knew I was getting it and I saw the information about the MobileMe services and downloaded the trial right away. Yes in the beginning there were issues, but they were fixed and I actually got my first 6 or 7 months of MobileMe for free bacause Apple realized these problems and fixed them.

I don't get why everyone thinks that everything has to be free. At less than $9 a month for MobileMe, I think MobileMe is a great value. The feature to find your iPhone and/or wipe it clean by logging into your MobileMe account from any PC that has web access is well worth the $99 a year for me. In case I lose my iPhone I have peace of mind that I can either send out a signal to help find it, or to wipe it clean if it was in fact in the wrong hands. Try that with GMail.

 

[paulsalter]

MM does have a lot of other things going for it, but the email side and the web interface are very poor, imo

.Mac was a much better service

 

[thelatinist]

true but something I feel apple should do is offer a free email address to iPhone users like blackberry does for its customers.

Blackberry email has never been free; it has always required an expensive Blackberry Data Plan, one which is equal in cost to the iPhone's current 3G despite a vastly inferior web browser (and consequently far lower data usage). That extra costs is the revenue sharing AT&T pays to Blackberry to cover the Blackberry push mail service.

As for MobileMe, I love the push email and calendar syncing, but I could not justify the expense if I weren't able to switch my personal domain over to host on MobileMe.

 

[ScottNWDW]

MM does have a lot of other things going for it, but the email side and the web interface are very poor, imo

.Mac was a much better service

Interesting, all I've heard was MobileMe was better than what .mac was.

What is so wriong with the interface ? I don't understand, it lists your emails, Unread emails are in bold, read emails are not bolded, you read them, you can create a new email, reply, delete, save emails, save them to folders. Seems to me the same as any other email app, whether it be Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail etc.

What else do you need it to do, fix dinner and play a movie for you?

The calendar app needed a little getting used to only because instead of categories like Outlook does, it uses different calendars as categories. Once I got that worked out it works beautifully.

Contacts, well I don't see anything wrong there. All the information from my Outlook 2007 contacts moved over without a problem.

Any changes I make to one platform are automatically synced to the other.

 

[paulsalter]

Interesting, all I've heard was MobileMe was better than what .mac was.

What is so wriong with the interface ? I don't understand, it lists your emails, Unread emails are in bold, read emails are not bolded, you read them, you can create a new email, reply, delete, save emails, save them to folders. Seems to me the same as any other email app, whether it be Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail etc.

What else do you need it to do, fix dinner and play a movie for you?

The calendar app needed a little getting used to only because instead of categories like Outlook does, it uses different calendars as categories. Once I got that worked out it works beautifully.

Contacts, well I don't see anything wrong there. All the information from my Outlook 2007 contacts moved over without a problem.

Any changes I make to one platform are automatically synced to the other.

I personally dont like the look of the interface
It is slow
If you have a lot of mails it is painful to get to the bottom of them
variation of UK/US dates on the pages, which gets confusing
just checking it now and its hung on loading gallery, now its says its not available

for syncing it is great now, i dont use the webside of it because its awful

 

[wolfpackfan]

What is so bad about MobileMe?

I've been using MobileMe on again and off again for the last year and I've found it noticeably slower than Gmail in sending and receiving email. I've finally just given up on it and am using Gmail exclusively. Why pay for something that is slower than something that is free.