For Mac: The Last Word In MobileMe Is ‘Not For Me.’
I’m an early adopter with a lot of patience. I bought a Mac when it didn’t do much. I went to OS X when it wasn’t ready for prime time.
I admit to all Macaholics reading this that I used Apple’s .Mac from day one, expecting and hoping for more, complaining all the while. What about MobileMe?
First, a little history from a very long time Mac user’s perspective.
Apple’s .Mac was a melange of services cobbled together to take advantage of Mac user, Apple lover, PC hater loyalties. Most of us have a high threshhold for.... (excerpted).
4 Reader Comments
Bob said:
I’m in my first month of trial and so far, I’m liking it. I love the calendar/addressbook/bookmark syncing between my iPhone, mac desktop and MBP. I guess it doesn’t work for some, too bad the ones that work, don’t blog enough about it.
Jonny Speed said:
Well, my experience with Mobile Me hasn’t been too good at all. Like you I bought it because Apple advertised it as “Exchange for the rest of us” and it was anything but. For all the trouble Microsoft has inflicted on the world, and for all the expense and complexity of Exchange, it does work quite well. I cannot say the same thing about Mobile Me so far. The first month after I got my iPhone was a disaster. For now, updating either iPhone or Mobile Me seems to work ok, but getting my Mac to sync has been more problematic. And what is it with Apple and email? .Mac email was known for going down often, but Mobile Me continues the tradition. Truly, this is a product not ready for prime time.
Jared B. said:
This is getting scary! Kate just bought a H.P. and is raving about it with vista saying she loves it. Mobile Me is, well…. HELL should I say? So this might explain where some of my e-mails are or should I say are not (in my in box). My friend has told me he has sent me a few e-mails and I never got them. We are YouTube nerds always passing stuff like that back and forth, well I am missing some of my e-mails from him still and now I am starting to wonder how many more have vanished. I usually get about eight to ten e-mails a day (not spam) and this last month I am lucky to get one or two in a day. I know I have credit cards that should have already e-mailed me saying ” your payment has been received”, I have not seen those either.
My Mobile Me account a couple of weeks ago was (on both my Mac’s) saying every half hour or so ” There is a Sync conflict on your computer” that about had me to the point of throwing both computers out the window.
What is wrong Steve Jobs? Did your Apple get a worm in it?
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Bonobo said:
I don’t care what OS I use anymore, because I can use them all on my Mac. To date my Mac runs fine with Leopard without any problem at all, and also runs Win XP Pro without problems both in Parallels and with Boot Camp natively.
I don’t buy 5 Macs every year or two, but the ones I have bought (about 1 per year) have yet to have a problem. In addition, I have recommended MacBooks & MacMinis to friends and over half a dozen have been bought, and none of those people are unhappy or plagued with problems. I had a friend who couldn’t get good WiFi connections and it turned out to be his 2.4 Ghz wireless home phone causing the problem.
iPhone has been virtually trouble free in 2 Gen 1 phones (unless you drop them in water…I know).
MobileMe is generally good, and I don’t fault them for having teething problems, as most systems have a few. Right now, I have no complaints.
Just me & my aquaintances having no problems or is it just selective absorption of critical comments on the forums, where most people log it to complain?
I can’t tell you how many friends with Windows XP & Vista have relayed having problems, but is that not worth commenting upon versus Macs OS X Leopard? It is annecdotal evidence, I’ll grant you that.
My view is that any “Brand New Model” whether hardware or software on “Version 1” is going to have glitches that give pioneers arrows in the back. I often avoid v#1 for that reason until the first update or 2 hits, and that goes for my Windows programs too, since it always seems that I have to wait until Service Pack 4 or 5 for my CAD package before each year’s release is finally production ready.
Sometimes we can be too close to the clouds to see the earth. The Earth is a messy place and we have to use our skills to avoid the disasters and use the best there is to our advantage.