MobileMe not so pushy

This is the email from apple: We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped.
Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac, and Gallery went relatively smoothly, the new MobileMe web applications had lots of problems initially. Fortunately we have worked through those problems and the web apps are now up and running.
Another snag we have run into is our use of the word "push" in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe "cloud," changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the cloud and your other devices. So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word "push" until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too.
We want to apologize to our loyal customers and express our appreciation for their patience by giving all current subscribers an automatic 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription free of charge. Your extension will be reflected in your account settings within the next few weeks.
We hope you enjoy your new suite of web applications at me.com, in addition to keeping your iPhone and iPod touch wirelessly in sync with these new web applications and your Mac or PC.
Thank you,
The MobileMe Team

Just got this email from apple. They should use more trendy words. Seems like a nice gesture 30 days for free. Cool! Reasd on...

Details on the 30 day extension here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2408

Just got the following email from pple about MobileMe:
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We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped.
Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac, and Gallery went relatively smoothly, the new MobileMe web applications had lots of problems initially. Fortunately we have worked through those problems and the web apps are now up and running.
Another snag we have run into is our use of the word "push" in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe "cloud," changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the cloud and your other devices. So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word "push" until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too.
We want to apologize to our loyal customers and express our appreciation for their patience by giving all current subscribers an automatic 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription free of charge. Your extension will be reflected in your account settings within the next few weeks.
We hope you enjoy your new suite of web applications at me.com, in addition to keeping your iPhone and iPod touch wirelessly in sync with these new web applications and your Mac or PC.
Thank you,
The MobileMe Team

I think the most annoying thing for me is that when I delete mail from my @me.com address on my iPhone it stays in the inbox on mobileme web. This means that it is pushing the wrong inbox info to my PC also. Because of this, when I delete a message on my iPhone it pops up again like I just received it and I have to delete it again. Then I have to go into mobileme web and delete them from my inbox online. SO DUMB. My mail boxes for web, cpu, and iphone are not at all the same and that makes no sense considering mail is a huge part of the Push paradigm.

Just got an email about the outage and the not-as-pushy-as-described situation. Looks like they are giving all subscribers a free month. Thank you Apple for making this right when legally you didn't have to.

Made a change on my iPhone (2.0 but not 3g - I wonder if this matters?) to a calendar event (deleted one) - despite syncing - no change to me.com or synced macs (2 of them).

Made a change on my mac (amended a name in address book) no change on iPhone.

What gives?

Some of you have nothing better to do than whine and complain about every little annoying detail. If an automatic "push" every 15 minutes isn't enough for you then stop bellyaching and sync your phones manually.

Funny,

I just read all the comments. I'm running 10.5.4 on the iMac, Macbook, and I have MobileMe and the iPhone 3G. So here is the scoop...

Everything runs perfectly. Seriously, no joke. Yes there can be a time lag between the devices, I'm not sure how long, because I truly have not too much attention to it. I do get some things happening immediately and some do take several minutes.

But folks, this is awesome. Personally I think some are just a little too picky.

That being said. I do have one MAJOR gripe. Subscriptions from iCal won't show up on MobileMe (except if you choose Birthday in preferences), but nothing else and it won't "push" to the iPhone. That truly SUCKS!

My experience.

Guys,

Im not sure about mobile me, But for the Exchange Push to work correct I beleive you have to have an Enterprise data plan or it will only function like imap.

See Details - Click Rate Plans

http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/iPhone3G/index.jsp