Comments on: Apple Makes Changes to MobileMe: We’re Finally Where We Should Have Been From the Start

By: thinkx

thinkx — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:52:51 +0000

hmm.. thanks, the “8 hours” does explain some problems I was having.. but what if select “sync now”.. does this override the 8 hours, especially the mail signatures and smart folders?

By: macer

macer — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:58:15 +0000

I appreciate this bump of fixes and new features of this latest Leo release.
I’m a quite happy MobileMe user for almost a year now…but I cannot understand why the web mail icon still not shows the small red circle which notifies the user of new unread mails.

You can see this icons here: http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/mail.html

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:31:06 +0000

Oliver,

If I was to pick MobileMe’s weakest link, it’d be the web front-end. Pretty sad considering that for a lot of people the front-end IS MobileMe. I’m sure lots of people do not use the other features (heck, Windows users don’t even HAVE a lot of those features).

Biggest complaint for me is that the web front-end is S-L-O-W. Why is it Yahoo’s, Google’s, and Microsoft’s email front-ends are all relatively speedy while Apple can’t get that right? The sooner Apple answers that question, the better.

I also don’t like the lack of feedback as you move the cursor over items. But mostly it’s just SLOW. It’s better than it was at launch, but I think Apple has a lot of work to do there.

By: oliver

oliver — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:29:48 +0000

I have always found the web apps almost to be somebody elses interpretations of an Apple product, even in the appearance. Although the email problem I was having is fixed, I generally have to stay logged out of the site when not using if I actually want my office pc to actually function. The site is such an horendous drain of memory it just chokes my computer.

By: Hobbes Doo

Hobbes Doo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:18:23 +0000

I’m still having an annoying bug that doesn’t appear to have been fixed. I like to set up custom ringtones for some of my contacts and every now and then when MobileMe syncs the ringtones are lost and reset to the default one. Pretty annoying. It happened already many times and I was hoping this update would fix it. Nope. It still happens.

The only solution right now is to turn off automatic sync of contacts in the iPhone and only sync them via iTunes.

Emailing Steve Job about this seems like a pretty good idea. It’s annoying that we still have problems with a paid service.

@Oliver, I have the exact problem you described every time I’m using the web apps in my office. I get an error when sending emails and it doesn’t allow me to recover. It’s really difficult for me to see MobileMe web apps as something that was produced at Apple as it has a beta feeling to it and doesn’t work as expected.

By: oliver

oliver — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:52:04 +0000

I emailed Steve Jobs, or that email address that pretends to be, last week about a particular issue i had with the web services where an email i had laboriously typed up had not been sent or saved. A few days later i had an Apple rep call me on my mobile and apologise in person for my troubles, and that a fix was on it’s way this week. He also offered up a free one year extension on my Me.com account – which he quickly delivered on.
The web services are still pretty lame, but the generally syncing has been improved greatly from what i’ve seen in the last 24 hours.
We’re getting there….

By: Apple Updates: Mobile Me, OSX 10.5.6 etc - Air Mass Zero

Apple Updates: Mobile Me, OSX 10.5.6 etc - Air Mass Zero — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:45:38 +0000

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By: Rich Cassady

Rich Cassady — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:39:24 +0000

MobileMe will be where it should be when you can have your subscribed calendars sync to your iPhone. So far, that still, months later, does not work. It works fine on Exchange, and it used to work with .Mac. Baby steps I guess.

By: Impaler

Impaler — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:31:23 +0000

I’m cautiously optimistic at this point. I’ve been back on Gmail for a few weeks after having enough of the disappearing contacts–that happened to me twice; and it was unacceptable to me. I’m proud of them, dealing with the heat and cranking up service updates. I sincerely hope it’s where it should be, and reliability is where it should be for a paid service. I’m going to keep looking at the blogs for a few days and see how it’s going, before I bother to switch back and put my faith back in MobileMe.

By: About that “one minute” sync update

About that “one minute” sync update — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:28:12 +0000

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