ComputerWorld reports that MobileMe users (Apple’s replacement to .Mac) were quite upset due to the fact the e-mail service had a four-day outage. In the world of e-mail, days can seem like years and this is especially true for mobile users who send tons of e-mail.

To the best of my knowledge I have never known any e-mail service to be down for 4 days in a row; this is absolutely unheard of.

And it’s even more rare that paid e-mail service (which MobileMe is) has this kind of outage. Ouch. If you’re e-mail is free then it might take the sting away a bit… but when you pay for it? That’s just bad all around.

It would seem that Apple users are better off using free Gmail.

Cult of Mac absolutely panned Apple’s new MobileMe service; the replacement for the .Mac service. Their article more or less describes what most of the Apple community thinks about the new service, which can be summed up as Meh.

Is MobileMe good? Yeah, it is if you want to use nothing but Apple services. But what if you want to use Gmail or Flickr? Sorry, you’re going to have to do it Apple’s way with MobileMe - and it’s not better. And by the way, you’ll have to change your e-mail address too.

This is how to keep your digital life connected? This is convenient?

No, this is decidedly inconvenient. As a matter of fact it’s outright frustrating. And you have to pay for it.

Present and future mobile computing is all about using what you want when you want to connect how you want. Using the MobileMe service simply denies you that privilege.

Read more about the frustrations of MobileMe via the link below.

[More info: Cult of Mac]