Comments on: Apple MobileMe Good Replacement But Still Sucks?

By: Andrei Ivanoff

Andrei Ivanoff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:54:11 +0000

I actually installed all the updates on my computer and since I did it, MOBILE refuses to sync…

NOW IT REALLY SUCKS!!!!!!!

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:41:48 +0000

it sucks, been using it, push never pushes, syncing problems constantly, the calendar is totally buggy in SAFARI!

By: R

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:48:29 +0000

If you want to use yahoo, use yahoo!
If you want to use google, use google!
They are both free and both have great services that work well. If you are happy with them MobileMe doesn’t make sense. The fact is that MobileMe has a few things that differentiate it that people might like. Although it isn’t really mentioned I like the fact that .mac (nobody knows about MobileMe) has no advertisements. I’ll pay for that. And to echo Partners in Grime $8.25/month to make sure your machines (PC’s too) are synced is worth it to me.

By: David Risley

David Risley — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:31:45 +0000

Looks to me like the overriding point here was that it sucks because you have to go all Apple to use it. Which, from my reading, appears to be true. If you are using any other email service except for an Apple service, you can’t use this. Sure, you can forward all your Gmail to .mac, but that is a half-ass solution.

MobileMe seems OK for a niche audience of people. But, for anyone even mildly knowledgeable about the Internet, MobileMe and .Mac aren’t worth the money.

By: Robert Robb Livingston

Robert Robb Livingston — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:55:05 +0000

I do not like ads.
I like simplicity.
MobileMe sounds great to me.

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:23:08 +0000

Yeah, I’d say it’s worth $8.25 a month just to keep my computers in sync, let alone all the other stuff included. I’ll be signing up for the first time since iTools was discontinued.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:00:43 +0000

Freetard.

By: CM

CM — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:49:50 +0000

You might want to wait until the service is actually launched before judging it.

Also, you don’t actually have to change your email address. If you have an existing .Mac address, it will continue to work. MobileMe can also be easily configured to work with your custom domain name which is especially nice for small business.

Push email, calendars and contacts plus slick, drag and drop enabled web applications are going to make for quite a nice service I think.

By: Hammer

Hammer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:15:43 +0000

Hey Rich,

Do you do any research before your write your column?
You don’t have to change your email address from .mac, it will be intact along with a mobileme address as stated on Apples website.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1932

As the two other posts imply, it’s too early to tell whether mobileme will suck or not.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:40:14 +0000

First, the Cult of Mac website certainly doesn’t represent “most of the Apple community”. Not by a long shot. Nor, as far as I can tell, does it claim to.

Second, the article is stupid. It assumes that all users are power users who enjoy having 3 or 4 different services that mostly inter-operate with the right tricks. And assumes that Apple’s job was to take this piecemeal approach and add a nice shine to it.

Third, you’ll note that the article dismisses MobileMe’s push technology in a single sentence. Ummm… isn’t that THE point? Web 2.0 with push that works with all of your devices.

MobileMe’s not cutting edge in any particular application, but it provides multiple applications that “just work” and just work with each other, along with push, storage and backup all in a single package. For many users, that’s more useful than “power user” cobbled-together alternatives.