Davey Winder
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:34
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MobileMe was meant to be "Exchange for the rest of us" according to Steve Jobs, providing a USD $99 per year one-stop-lifestyle-shop bringing sychronised contacts, calendaring and email onto your Mac, PC and iPhone. Pretty much everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong. Bad for Apple, great for the end user who wants to get MobileMe for free...
It was only last month that Steve Jobs announced at the 2008 Worldwide
Developers Conference that MobileMe would be Exchange for the rest of
us. Clearly wanting to jump aboard the same 'your life in the cloud'
bandwagon, jealously watching BlackBerry and its army of CrackBerry
addicts, Apple thought that it was on to a sure fire winner.
It might have been, had it worked. It might
still be, if Apple can get it working. However, goodwill is not an easy
thing to come by, and even Apple fanboys are starting to cut up rough
about their treatment at the hands of the MobileMe machine. You only
have to browse the
Apple MobileMe Support Forums for evidence of the growing
unrest.
Everything started pear shaped immediately upon launch, with eager
early adopters complaining that either they could not login to the
service or they could not sync with their new iPhone when they had.
Emails mysteriously vanished into the ether never to be seen again, the
great 'push' which promised instant BlackBerry-alike synchronisation
turned out to be more of a slow 'pull' with reports of 15 minute delays
when syncing computers with the cloud.
Apple responded to the online storm of protests by sending out an email
to MobileMe users last week apologising for the launch hiccups and
pretty much admitting that perhaps it was a little over enthusiastic in
its use of 'push' to describe the service.
"While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web
apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe cloud" Apple said
"changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the
cloud and your other devices."
Read on to discover how to get MobileMe for free...
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