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- Badandy127, on 07/12/2008, -2/+16Did people honestly think that Apple signing up and selling a million iPhone 3G's, releasing iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 firmware, and massively upgrading and launching MobileMe was going to be flawless?
Just wait two days people, I bet it will be in order by then.
(BTW, many people's MobileMe's do work perfectly, including mine) - santaliqueur, on 07/12/2008, -2/+10People love to make fun of Apple, and hold it to a completely different standard than Microsoft.
- santaliqueur, on 07/12/2008, -1/+7Activation servers were being hit pretty hard, took me a while to upgrade to 2.0. Seems to be fine now.
That said, MobileMe seems like a nice product, but overpriced. I love the 2.0 software. I feel like I got a brand new phone today, and I didn't spend another dime. - jerematic, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5I admit that the contacts & calendar sync would be nice, but not for $99/year.
- natenovs, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5um - for 99$ a year you can get push email and contacts from anywhere, and the service are often much more reliable. i really don't get .mac. i mean, i dont get .mac at that price point.
- jenmarsh, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3This just annoys me. I think only web designers or programmers can understand the frustration apple is going through. You can test until the end of time, but sometimes when you put something live there are problems. It is a major service launch and it is not surprising it went on with some major issues. It happens. Even the best programmers in the world are not immune to major issues.
- e68895f, on 07/12/2008, -1/+3welcome to the land of mass market....
- MtheoryX, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Push email and contacts is not the same as syncing your phone to your PC wirelessly. Additionally, it can keep multiple computers in sync, via push. And the storage space, and the app integration, and more.
People find value in all kinds of different things. Some won't care about the storage or app integration, but would love push contacts and email.
If you don't see value in it, fine. But don't start spreading disinformation to justify your opinion. - iCoty, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2This was expected. Problems should be sorted within the next day or so. Nothing to worry about.
- urothane, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2The web hosting, plus the backup storage ANd the push data is why I wanted it. I am able to drop my current webhost that is garbage anyway and save the $84 they charge me a year. I have more room and traffic on mobileme. Now I am paying $15 for push data.
- jerematic, on 07/12/2008, -2/+4I setup a trial account and only got to mess with it for a few minutes before everything stalled. But I don't see how this is worth $99/year.
- surferjoemaui, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Apple should've invited some of the mozzilla guys over, seems this has happend before. Whoo, Deja vu.
- alphadog, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1So far I'm not impressed with this rollout. I thought that the $ 99.00 per year was expensive. Now I am sure of it.
As a new customer to .mac/mobileme, i am inclined to not renew next year.
I'll wait and see if things get better. - str3ama, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2I don't know why people are flipping over about the new IPhone, granted it has some new cool features but honestly it shows that Apple is committed to pushing out new IPhone versions with little time between each version released. This sort of tactic helps them saturate the market and in a way helps them gain market share quickly, but it's pretty bad for customers since you're version will be outdated quicker. I'd say hold back on buying 'this, I guarantee that by December or January at latest they'll be pushing out a new IPhone.
- surferjoemaui, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2No one ever seems to mention that .mac (.me) also includes web hosting for the site you can build your self with iweb and you can use your own domain name too. that's why I got it, but the other stuff is pretty cool (just checked it out). they get my $8.25/month!
- corneliousjd, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2It's the same a .Mac, that was worth $99/year to tons of people, so this will be as well.
If push e-mail and contacts are IMPORTANT to you, its totally worth it... me personally... I'd never spend that kind of money on this right now. My job doesn't depend on it. - deadbaby, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1The web front end stuff is nice but you can do it with Google for free. That's not really the point of it. I pay $99/year for iDisk -- which is conveniently a standard WebDAV share and the syncing support. That's something you can't do (easily) with any free services.
- vik0612, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1The apple release 'magic' had to derail at some point of time, especially when they're releasing a product AND a service on the same day. They should have released mobileme a week ago. And let the magic still work for the iPhone.
- imacmike, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1If you go to mac.com, you get the "we're not ready" message. But if you go to me.com everything works.
- pinchduck, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2Wait...people are paying $99/year to sync their phone to their PC wirelessly? Really? I'm assuming they can do so the old fashioned way via bluetooth or cable connection, or is that incorrect?
I heard a loud buzzing sound yesterday. I thought it might be tinnitus, but maybe it was all those people lining up to get fleeced. $99 to sync data. WOW. - S4MF1SHER, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2Didn't this crap happen with the first IPhone release?
- ohplease, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1
Stagger your damned deployments, Jobs. You know people are going to line up for it. The last thing you want to do is send them home empty handed or holding a brick. - surferjoemaui, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1have you tried both, if you have a mac, iweb is way easier. all drag and drop straight from iphoto (move, crop, resize and frame in iweb). Google also has a free gdisk, again not as slick as the apple version. if you use Gmail you can mail your self files and store them for free too
- rheaume, on 07/12/2008, -1/+1oops
- JayClark, on 07/12/2008, -0/+0How is a year between models a short time? How often do Verizon or Blackberry update their devices? Just as quickly, quicker in some cases. Why doesn't anyone bitch and moan about that?
- kwirk, on 07/12/2008, -2/+2It just works.
- superwick, on 07/12/2008, -2/+1no.
- kiwifish, on 07/12/2008, -1/+0Well, yes and no. To play "apple's advocate", their platform is inherently very upgradeable, and Apple have shown a willingness to push out the software updates for free to existing customers. That means that a customer is getting more for his money over time - higher data speed is basically the only difference between the two phones, all the other important improvements are shared by new and old customers alike. I don't think that's a bad deal.
- AlienMushroom, on 07/12/2008, -2/+1Not even worth $9.99/century.
- pyrates, on 07/12/2008, -4/+2Talk about being late to the party. An article from Thursday and this JUST become popular 38 minutes ago.
- barnis, on 07/12/2008, -4/+1the apps store seems to be down now too :(
- b0rna, on 07/12/2008, -7/+2Go Vista Go!
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