Comments on: MobileMe: Is it worth it?

By: charyis

charyis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:56:40 +0000

Have been on the free trial for over a month and am sick of trying to get the address book sync correct for my address groups (nevermind smart groups which is a non-starter). Shouldn’t be too difficult – it’s just the cloud, my shiny new iMac and iPhone. “Genius” support has not been exactly genius. If I could get this working right I ouldn’t mind the money but jeesh!

By: bradleyspurr

bradleyspurr — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:47:11 +0000

For me, the remote wipe was the only feature I wanted. My solution was PhoneWipe (www.phonewipe.com) for way cheaper. Cheers! -Bradley

By: johanna

johanna — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:51:08 +0000

I have had .mac now mm for 3 years never really used it but now have iphones for the whole family so upgraded to family pack as I was told that i could share everyones calender but that is not the case i feel really cheated could have got it on google for free!! why cant apple do this also how bizarre!!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:05:15 +0000

Can you sync calander apps without being on an exchange server

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:02:15 +0000

Are you using a exchange server?

By: iHing

iHing — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:50:33 +0000

As I said before I am a big fan of the syncing but Apple needs to fix the performance of MobileMe webmail.

By: James

James — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:27:29 +0000

Tried MANY host in my day…I finally discovered an reliable one

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:40:17 +0000

@ Gazoobee:

I take your point – the webmail app ‘appears’ to be well designed. Perhaps the slow speed of the application has influenced my opinion somewhat, but only slightly. I’ve just had a little play around to get some more concrete examples -

1. Pop up dialogues – Is it really necessary to make users launch a new windows and wait 10 seconds for the screen to appear in order to reply to an email?

2. Screen locking – try checking an external email account – it just locked my screen (web screen mind you) for upwards of 2 minutes while it was checking my yahoo account. I’m sure the Apple UI people have a really good reason for designing it that way? Or perhaps it is a technical limitation of the technology used to build the site?

3. Complete lack of asynchronous processing – it seems every action on the web client must block and wait for the teething pullingly slow server to respond. Terrible.

4. Constant time outs with the server –
e.g. “Mail could not complete your action because your session has expired or the selected message was moved or deleted” – no the session has not expired the server response is just that slow.

Anyone else care to chime in? Apple? Steve?

By: vanni

vanni — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:02:57 +0000

I have been an iTools then MM user since day one. i would have thought that this would have been enough tiem to have fixed the slowness of the iDisk issues. This and the fact that webmail is slow are the main reasons for my earlier comment that this service should be priced at $50.00.

By: Gazoobee

Gazoobee — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:12:21 +0000

@ Chris:

Both MobileMe webmail and the iDisk *are* slow, but the rest of your beefs about them differ from almost all users and reviewers. On balance I find MobileMe, and specifically the webmail, to be very well designed indeed (as does almost every user I’ve ever talked to and every review I’ve ever read on the subject.)

I’ve never heard anyone call it “poorly designed.” Your experiences are unique.