Comments on: MobileMe Receives Minor Refresh

By: Don

Don — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:16:27 +0000

MobileMe email web interface is beyond slow. It is, “click the mailbox and get a cup of coffee” slow because the response time is nearly 60 seconds. How can anyone be expected to respond to business needs when you have to stare at your screen at the loss of productivity? Does anyone know if this is going to improve? I am at a loss at what to do. There doesn’t seem to be an effective application that syncs to the iPhone and combines events, email, and contacts all in one package. I’ve used NowContact – but they have a new product in beta called ‘X’ (x me out of that for now). Entourage has most everything, but my last experience with it I lost all my data through its buggy innerworkings despite multiple ‘help’ from support to ‘recover and rebuild’ my lost database. There’s got to be something that works and, ideally, links your contacts/emails/events with each other so each can be tagged with related data. Help!!

By: James

James — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:22:52 +0000

MobileMe is the SLOWEST e-mail service I have. SLOW. SLOW. SLOW. Also, the hyperlink function does not work at all. I am moving to Gmail. Dear Steve Jobs: everything else you do is high quality, and I’m proud to be an Apple Customer. Why are you allowing this particular service to tarnish your reputation as a high-quality provider of modern technology????

By: rickbnyc

rickbnyc — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:53:31 +0000

The webmail interface has been unbearably slow and buggy since the transition to mobileme, and this has not improved since it’s launch. The old .mac webmail interface wasn’t perfect either, but it was much more stable and feature rich than even the current mobileme interface.

I am a freelancer and am often at a different computer day to day, and rely on the webmail interface to get to my email, and it is torturous: the mailbox takes up to 30 seconds to load; individual messages take 10-30 seconds to load once you click on them (if they load at all); if you don’t click on anything for more than a few minutes, then return, the whole interface must reload (which takes forever, as stated above); and several other similar problems.

I’m a huge apple fan, but the mobileme webmail is a atrocious embarrassment and nigh un-useable, especially for a service that costs $99/year!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:38:22 +0000

IT IS SO SLOW. I can’t bear it. I love my new iPhone. I use Entourage on my MacBook Pro. But if I ever need to access MobileMe from a browser, on ANY machine or connection, it is AWFUL.

I don’t want to pay 100 bucks a year for this, but I have a year’s worth of email and folders all nicely filed, and don’t want to change my email address.

What on earth is the problem?

By: Thiago

Thiago — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:43:25 +0000

I think it lacks HTML composing in its webmail interface, as well as filters and actions like Yahoo! does.

By: tsly

tsly — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:35:15 +0000

It’s slow as all hell getting mail from the server. It takes forever to load mail.

.mac was so much better…..

This is an embarrassment for Apple.

By: Bites from the Apple: Form and Function — What I Would Buy

Bites from the Apple: Form and Function — What I Would Buy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:08:10 +0000

[...] got a cosmetic change to its launch page as well as some UI tweaks to its Mail and Calendar components. But the most important aspect of this update is that push [...]

By: Weekly App Store Picks: Feb. 28, 2009 - TheAppleBlog

Weekly App Store Picks: Feb. 28, 2009 - TheAppleBlog — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:54:01 +0000

[...] to MobileMe will be overjoyed to hear that the service has been tweaked, incorporating a few minor improvements. The most immediate difference is the updated log-in page, however, most impactful in terms of [...]

By: Timo Reitnauer

Timo Reitnauer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:11:06 +0000

I’m still waiting for custom domain support for email… Without the possibility of using my email address under my own .com domain, MobileMe doesn’t make any sense to me personally.

By: frd75

frd75 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:17:52 +0000

I read the blurb from my daughter’s account And i notice that the improvements depend on updating to Leopard. I quit mobile me because i was tired losing contacts and parts of my key chain. I am certainly not going to buy leopard for the privilege of spending $99 on mobile me when i can do almost every thing for free at other sites.