MobileMe browser requirements page found
Joining in on the conversation about tonight's .Mac outage, reader Chad sent us a link to a page he discovered on .Mac. He said that while trying to access his .Mac service on his iPhone, he was redirected to a MobileMe browser requirements page. One of the suspicious things on the page is the fact that "calendar" is spelled wrong (i.e. "calender"). You can see a screen grab of the page after the break.The page in question shows Safari as the top browser to use, followed by Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. On last night's talkcast (MP3 Link) Michael Rose, Robert Palmer, and I talked about the possibility of Apple marketing the Safari browser for Windows users through the MobileMe service. It looks as if that guess is true.
Thanks, Chad!
Update: Apple has updated the page (see new screenshot after the break).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
naugahyde said 7:43PM on 6-23-2008
I've been getting this for about a week now, unfortunately it's not indicative of squat... yet.
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CB said 8:13PM on 6-23-2008
The same thing happened to me yesterday (Sunday, 6/22). On iPhone, went to webmail.mac.com and a page displayed giving browser requirements. I thought that was very strange.
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Dyranios said 8:22PM on 6-23-2008
They market their browser as much as they market IE7 and firefox.
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David Chartier said 8:41PM on 6-23-2008
I find the difference in language between browser platforms to be a little strange. "Mac / PC," then "Windows only." It's a small slip, but one that just seems uncharacteristic.
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Ed said 8:43PM on 6-23-2008
Well, compared to spelling calender wrong, fairly insignificant. I'd guess it just indicates that nobody has put much work into this page or bothered checking it. As such, reading huge amounts about Apple strategy for worldwide browser dominance from this page may be ill-advised.
Chris said 8:57PM on 6-23-2008
Not really, considering Macs can run Windows. So saying "PC" instead of "Windows" wouldn't be correct. Mac and Windows are no longer mutually exclusive
user7 said 9:44PM on 6-23-2008
It's back to the .Mac requirements...
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Chad said 8:59PM on 6-23-2008
Apple has made changes to the page to replace all of the MobileMe references with .Mac, and list separate browser requirements for Mac and Windows. There's also a link to give your current browser a shot at .mac, that currently doesn't work.
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Mauricio Armada said 9:00PM on 6-23-2008
hey the mobileme logo is not there any more!!!!! the link takes me to something different other than whats on the post
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Eric said 9:26PM on 6-23-2008
The copyright date appears to have reverted to 2007, also.
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CB said 9:54PM on 6-23-2008
Again right now, when I go to http://webmail.mac.com on my iPhone, I get the Recommended Browsers page. I don't see any update as above screenshots indicate.
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frdmfghtr said 9:58PM on 6-23-2008
There was a talkcast last night? I tried dialing in several times and got nothing but silence.
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Michael Rose said 12:18AM on 6-24-2008
Hi FRD -- yes, we tried to do a show last night, but Talkshoe had a 4-hour outage. :-(
We recorded a bloggers-only call and it's posted on Talkshoe now.
twoeightnine said 11:34PM on 6-23-2008
Anyone else have a problem with the iDisk in FF 3? I click on it and it opens a new window that is just blank.
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raj said 12:12AM on 6-24-2008
I do. I posted on mac-forums\forum but nobody seem to care!
raj said 12:14AM on 6-24-2008
oh yeah i even sent it to tuaw(Send us Tips) but they dont see this as a big issue either!
Jash Sayani said 3:27AM on 6-24-2008
Waiting to use MobileMe.....
Will I get 3 months free, because I just purchased a new Mac..?
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Hein Tore said 4:18AM on 6-24-2008
What about Opera? My guess is that the service will work perfectly fine in Opera 9.5. Only time will show.
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Hewball said 4:40AM on 6-24-2008
google search for calender
Did you mean: calendar
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Chris McDonald said 4:41AM on 6-24-2008
I guess that you mean - spelled WRONGLY?
If you're going to criticize someone's spelling, at least do so with correct grammar.
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