Comments on: MobileMe .Mac Rebranding Runs Into Snafus

By: Planeten Paultje

Planeten Paultje — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:43:59 +0000

MobileMe is beginning to look up here it would seem. The Cloud does not disengage at the drop of a hat anymore and I am now doing large file copies to my iDisk. This is still slow (26MB in 2h vs 10h earlier on with the disengagements), but at least it is consistent. Sync also took less time to finish. I think we are getting there.

By: Planeten Paultje

Planeten Paultje — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:25:57 +0000

MobileMe is still Wonky Donkey over here (The Netherlands). iDisk is absolutely dead slow, if available at all. Just had to log out of the service and log back in again in order to get any iDisk functionality. And Oops, iDisk just disconnected itself again. iWeb also has trouble updating my site. I’m clearly not out of the woods yet.

By: Planeten Paultje

Planeten Paultje — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:40:34 +0000

Still some loose ends here. My mac frequently disengages from my cloud and iWeb frequently reports an error when updating my website.
Whereas my Cloud capacity was doubled from the get-go, I have heard from friends who are still waiting for that part of the upgrade.

By: WholesaleMagic

WholesaleMagic — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:26:48 +0000

Okay, I have realised that the fact that my Mac does not push straight to the cloud and to my iPhone is not a problem: it is just the way the service works. It really sucks that Apple say that it all pushes from everywhere, but in reality my Mac isn’t pushing anything. It’s just syncing stuff at a faster rate than it previously did (once every 15 minutes).

By: lmasanti

lmasanti — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:54:15 +0000

quote:
“One thing I find intriguing about the Snow Leopard story is nobody delves deeply into WHY Apple is pushing hardcore on OS development.”

I think that this is two ways: they “want” a harder OS (as a general better OS) and they “need” a harder OS (to run their systems).
But I do not think that the “top levels” of Apple’s offerings are being done “all in Apple’s hard and soft”.

By: WholesaleMagic

WholesaleMagic — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:09:33 +0000

Well, it all seems to be working fine for me, apart from being unable to access the calendar app at me.com from time to time.

What annoys me is that even though I have synchronisation set to ‘Automatic’ in my System Preferences, my computer only syncs once every ten minutes or so. Is anyone else experiencing this?

By: Deanston

Deanston — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:16:30 +0000

Early glitches are not surprising, an experience Apple needed to learn, and users should be able to forgive with the product and service down the road. I’m more interested in the back story. What technical steps did Apple do on preparing iTunes and me.com leading up to the iPhone 3G launchWhat is the backend architecture /infrastructure that me.com is running on? One thing I find intriguing about the Snow Leopard story is nobody delves deeply into WHY Apple is pushing hardcore on OS development. Just a case of nerdy engineering pride or trying to outdo Windows/Linux? Or is it Apple aiming to run the entire Apple Cloud, plus expanding into the Cloud business, with Snow Leopard? Apple is already hoarding a portfolio with every aspect of computing (a lesson learned from MS?). It’s hard to imagine Jobs will be content to depend his business on some generic Linux farm. Daniel?

By: rogeradams

rogeradams — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:23:20 +0000

I got a software update alert this morning (9.00 Bangkok time) and now have Mail v. 3.4 installed so everything is back to normal. I did not see the version # of the update but assume you are correct about it being 1.1.

By: Planeten Paultje

Planeten Paultje — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:54:16 +0000

So they indeed pulled the MobileMe v1.0 update for OSX and today replaced it with v1.1. Both my machines are now up and running with it.

Let’s see what weirdnesses crop up over the next few days.

By: rogeradams

rogeradams — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:17:48 +0000

Well, I have had access to my @me.com since last Monday, 7th July but note that the version of Mail is still 3.3 and not 3.4. I have checked the downloads page at Apple support but cannot find Mail v.3.4 listed for download, even as a search item. In addition, Software Update cannot find any updates. Also my .Mac preference pain is still the old format (given that I am still on v.3.3). Anyone any ideas as to why I have full access to @me.com but do not have v.3.4 of Mail?