Comments on: MobileMe for the rest of us

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:09:30 +0000

The cost of, what was mac.com, me.com is nothing. Once AppleSoft becomes Apple again all will be fine, I hope.

I may just take my store and put it on BlueHost.com and leave the blog on me.com so I can keep the kool stuff me offers… or should I say will offer once it’s working.

By: blalor

blalor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:58:44 +0000

If it works like it should (ie. as they originally advertised it), then perhaps not. I have two Macs and an iPhone. I like having access to my most important information simultaneously on all three, and I think that is worth $8.25/month *if it works*. Not being able to see the calendars that I’ve subscribed to in iCal on my iPhone is a fairly serious bug, which I hope will be rectified before I buy the service. I also want live two-way sync with Google Calendar. I’m not willing to give up the power and flexibility of my desktop apps (Mail.app, iCal, Address Book) just to have syncing via “the cloud” on my iPhone, however, which is why I don’t think NuevaSync is a viable solution for me.

By: RB

RB — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:16:56 +0000

Well I don’t know how Ian posted a comment at my blog but he did??? I have tried 3 different browsers, Netscape, FireFox and Safari and it won’t allow me to post a commnet.

Paul, I have others that seem to be getting my RSS?

AppleSoft… “It Just Sorta Works!” I love my Apple stuff but this is getting near the bursting point for me!

By: GBMINI

GBMINI — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:36:57 +0000

Paul,
I always still use GoMotoring, and that does show TwistyBitz updates correctly … maybe the iWeb format isn’t correctly handled by Google Reader?

By: GBMINI

GBMINI — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:35:44 +0000

But don’t you think, Brian, that $99/year is a bit pricey just so you can forward contacts & calendars to your iPhone?

By: blalor

blalor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:00:34 +0000

I don’t understand the statement that you “have” to change your email address to use MobileMe. That is absolutely not the case. I continue to use FastMail.fm as my mail provider with my iPhone (v2.0 OS), along with MobileMe for contacts and calendar syncing. I’ll never use my MobileMe email account, so I’ve disabled it on my iPhone, leaving contacts, calendars, and bookmarks syncing enabled. In the iPhone’s Mail application, you’d never know I have a MobileMe account. FastMail supports IMAP (as does every other mail provider living in the 21st century [I'm looking at you, Yahoo]) and checking for new mail every 5 minutes is really quite good enough for me…

By: paul

paul — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:06:21 +0000

Huh, noticed I couldn’t comment on his blog the other day but figured he was just editing some files at the time. Too bad that it is an Apple problem. Seems like the iPhone 3G + MobileMe experiences have tarnished the ‘it just works’ mantra. I’m still getting the iPhone when the queues die down (and the cases aren’t cracking!).

On a separate note – am I the only one who doesn’t get updates in his RSS feed for RB’s blog? I use GoogleReader but can’t remember ever seeing a new posting there, I always have to go and check manually.

Sorry Ian for the thread hijack.

By: Josh Wardell

Josh Wardell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:10:48 +0000

I bit on the $30 discount for mobileme when buying my 3G, but so far it is 100% useless. People are more reluctant to change their email address than their phone numbers these days, yet apple expects you to change yours if you want to use push. I would consider “returning” it but I’m waiting to see if mobileme is needed when 3rd party push notifications come in september.