The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
The simple truth is that we cannot say that you will be
able to get MobileMe for free, forever. But, and in this case it is a
but the size of an opera singers arse, as MobileMe continues to
struggle with providing any semblance of a fully operational service
the chances are high that there will be more apologies and more free
extensions coming your way. Hell, just look at the problems Apple has had in delivering a simple software upgrade service and you can imagine the problems it will have with a complex cloud computing system.
The web services are still flakey to say the
least, just pop over to the MobileMe support page and you will see a
status message which says that "1% of MobileMe members cannot access
MobileMe Mail." Really? Just a single solitary one percent? Reading the
support forums themselves and searching around the web, it would appear
that Apple has lost the plot when it comes to basic maths.
Apple has also lost the plot when it comes right back to that Exchange
for the rest of us promise it would seem. After all, think of Exchange
and you think of Outlook. And Outlook users appear less than happy with
MobileMe right now as well. If they create appointments on the iPhone
then they do not seem to arrive in Outlook on the desktop when
synchronised, or rather not as the case appears to be, via MobileMe.
You can see the appointment in your Today view, but not in your
calendar.
If you are suffering from the same problem you might want to ask Apple
for some more free time, I have a sneaking suspicion they will be only
too glad to accommodate you based on the events of the last week or so.
So there you have it, MobileMe for free. Kind of. The clever money,
however, is on people saying enough is enough and looking for
alternative in the cloud social synchronisation of the sort provided by
Google or even, dare I say it, BlackBerry...
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