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Apple: MobileMe transition taking longer than expected

by Scott McNulty Jul 11th 2008 at 6:40AM



I don't think it will come as a shock to anyone that the MobileMe transition hasn't gone as smoothly as Apple would have liked. A recent update to the .Mac support page (shown above) states, 'The MobileMe transition is underway but is taking longer than expected. Please refer to the official System Status to the right for current information on the availability of MobileMe services. We apologize for any inconvenience.'

Cory was able to sneak into MobileMe and take some pictures, so at least you can check out what you're missing. Here's hoping that this rocky start leads to a much more solid product since, as Mike pointed out, .Mac wasn't exactly a hallmark of uptime itself.

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Tim

8 PM central time U.S., and I still can't get in. All I've got access to this weekend is a PC with IE, and me.com doesn't support it. mac.com still won't load at all. So, I've lost 3 days of being able to work. Utterly disappointing, Apple. Do I smell a class action lawsuit coming down the pike?

July 11 2008 at 9:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
O

Hi,

I can't login into the web site - gives me a user/password error, and I can't create any web galleries - it crahes my iPhoto.

I can run the Sync in Prefferences though... any ideas?

Thanks,

Ori

July 11 2008 at 12:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HKMacs

I'm in Hong Kong. It's now 11.38 on Friday and MobileMe is still not working. This is unacceptable. The one time I was able to access the service my online Address Book was missing loads of information. I'd have thought after 8 years Apple might have fixed the appalling Sync problems.

July 11 2008 at 11:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Herber

Works here via http://me.com but pretty slow. Only the Contacts functionality has a hard time to load (so far fails to load).

July 11 2008 at 11:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kvryland

I was excited to see what Apple was going to roll out in MobileMe. Well, I appreciate the extra 10GB for my idisk. The "push" technology is good. However, I am incredibly underwhelmed by the online mail program. It is still maddeningly slow, and it does not have Rich Text. All of this wait, and I still have to go to Gmail or Yahoo Mail to send someone an e-mail with common attributes like bold text, italics, and underlining. What are they thinking at Apple? There is no way that me.com is going to be my default mail program when I'm away from home. The lack of understanding of what users want in an online mail program is mind-boggling. E-mail is the anchor for a service like this.

I don't dislike everything about MobileMe, but I am stunned by what is not included.

Is there an emoticon for "shaking my head is disbelief."

KVR

July 11 2008 at 11:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff

Mobile Me is working here -- on the Web. I haven't got Apple Mail setup yet because I haven't seen the "Mobile Me" option appear in System Settings yet. Using 10.5.4 on a G4 Powerbook. I suppose I'll learn that feature only works on an Intel-based machine?

The Web stuff looks good -- would just like to get Mail setup.

July 11 2008 at 11:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

My MBP still won't download the MobileMe update using Software Update and it's not listed on the Apple downloads page yet... Any words of wisdom??

July 11 2008 at 10:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kurt

I'm attempting to upgrade my old iphone to the new 2.0 software and iTunes is telling me the store is down, leaving my phone bricked- anyone know what's going on? It needs to connect to the store to install the update? Are you kidding me?

July 11 2008 at 10:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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HF

Kurt said...
I'm attempting to upgrade my old iphone to the new 2.0 software and iTunes is telling me the store is down, leaving my phone bricked- anyone know what's going on? It needs to connect to the store to install the update? Are you kidding me?


Same thing happened to me. I went away, left the phone connected to the computer, and ten minutes later it still said "error connecting to iTunes store". I unplugged it and it was in emergency only mode. Repeated, left it plugged for longer, saw the same error, but when I unplugged this time it said that the phone was activated. Seems to work fine, except when I plug into the computer the phone shows up in the source list of iTunes but the right hand panel is blank and the status at top says "connecting to iTunes store" but it never does. I downloaded Remote and by right clicking on the phone in the source list I could choose sync and the app went onto the phone (Remote is wonderful by the way).

I still cannot get SW update to give me the OS update for mobile me, so I cannot try any of the new push stuff. Has everybody else gotten the SW update?

July 11 2008 at 11:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hermiod

I signed up for a trial account to try this out. Push e-mail currently does not work.

July 11 2008 at 8:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Banks

Back on briefly, but contacts won't load. Uh oh! As these were wiped out on my MBPro. We'll see.

July 11 2008 at 8:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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