Unlucky 1 percent of MobileMe email users may get relief

Slightly off-topic but no less infuriating: has anyone noticed that one can no longer sign on to MobileMe thru Internet Explorer? So much for being able to check your data from anywhere. Many of us at work cannot install alternate browsers.

If you are using .mac for business email, you shouldn't be in business.

Contrary to popular belief Apple has done a very good job of limiting their external relations risk

Betting that 99% of the people would say awww... you should have backed it up.. or awww.. you shouldn't ever have thought that this type of service was reliable they

-communicated little so there was little to talk about

-communicated on Friday nights so that the press did not pick it up and markets did not over react

- bet that the news of their new "secret projects" and current earnings would out weigh that of the mistakes on their current ones.

- bet that when people finally get the product to work.. its value will be greater then the hassle it caused and still better then what's on the market.

and so.. like most major corporations who have to make decisions regarding these things.... expect more of the same.

If a free email service (Gmail) turned round & said 'Ooops, sorry we lost all your emails' I'd say 'OK, fair enough' (begrudgingly).

But if I'm paying good money for an email service I seriously think they should be backing everying up for me & taking the resposibily from me.

thank you David Pogue for helping us put the pressure on

Lesson 1, do not rush on day 1 to buy/use a much anticipated gadget/service it will tend to be a mess.
There are no more lessons

Well I can confirm, as someone who does backups, that MobileMe should be renamed Pi$$edOffMe. I spent about 4 hours going back a version then resyncing with the same - COMPLETELY LOST SAFARI and INTERNET problem. Ultimately I had to go back to a virgin install from the iTunes top iPhone screen (backups didn't help) and then reinstall, reset, redo everything.

Killed my MobileMe account and, despite the concept being great, never want to see it again.

About 12 hours of nonsense about an hour of which required user attention between the long waits.

It really sucks if anybody lost business over this, but I just want to weigh in and say how unprofessional it seems to customers if you use me.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com, etc. as your business email address.

It does not take a lot of technical acumen to set up email for your domain. Even a lousy host probably has a very simple management tools for doing it.

If you're in love with your favorite webmail service, I'm pretty sure they all let you check other accounts through them these days (I know gmail and Yahoo do). Just be sure to use a service that doesn't tack an ad onto outgoing messages (I'm looking at you, Yahoo and Hotmail).

Hey Mike, why are you "TUAW Blogger"?

Strange of all this .me craziness, i dont have any issues not even a slightest bit. I am in Japan though not sure if that counts. And also few friends of mine who has a .me account in here have no problems at, too. It works fine for us maybe thats our luck but hey who knows might be happened to us tomorrow or next week.