Ars: Jobs agrees MobileMe not up to Apple's standards

Well, it's not as bad as it sounds. Mac is a niche computer system and no real critical businesses use their products for enterprise services. So the mickey mouse service went down. Big deal. It will be back up eventually.

apple/mobileme are putting a serious hurting on all of us with it's absolute failure to deliver while charging $99 for the year. you guys knew this was not working to perfection before the changeover from .mac and you let it out anyway. it's just not good enough to fix the problem after the barn door is open. if you truely care about your customers you'll practice what you preach. i admire you steve jobs but shame on you and your company for sleeping on this...........

Now maybe apple will (hopefully) admit they have a problem with NVIDA's 8600 macbook pro cards. Unless, (somehow) magically it only affected HP and Dell. At least reassure people that there isn't a problem, or come out openly and admit it... don't just let it die away and quietly change the cards.

So since Jobs is confident it'll be good by the end of the year... I'll wait to buy it at least that long. :)

A lot more products seem to be coming out of Apple with less pre-testing done on them, now.

Any new major service like MobileMe is not going to get implemented without some glitches. What matters is the overall attitude of the company towards its customers and Apple gets the highest marks in my book.

I signed up for MobileMe the day the iPhone 2.0 came out.

I liked the fact that iCal is immediately synced from my work desktop.

I like the OTA (over the air) sync of my contacts and my appointments.

I did have one issue, all my contacts disappeared mysteriously last week, causing some grief.

The thing that I know about Apple is this... They will fix it, and it will kick ass. We just give them time to fix it. They won't leave it broken! And it will be better than anything else in the market place.

All it requires is a little patience on our part.

iPhone 2.0.1 came out yesterday and I have seen real speed improvements. Progress is being made, we all should be pretty happy.

Speaking of MobileMe...

Version 2.0 seemed to sync (between the iPhone and the "cloud") within a minute or two. I made updates to my iPhone calendar and my MacBook Pro iCal 30 minutes ago... still hasn't shown up in the other spot yet. "Cloud" is sync'ed with my iCal... did 2.0.1 sacrifice MobileMe sync frequency for battery life?

I never used .Mac before and started using it form MobileMe already. Donno what to say, the system is a mess. There is NO push think at all except for email.

There were reports that calendar/contacts synced between PC/Mac and Server in 15 minutes. Yesterday I made a test change to the calendar in www.me.com website and it appeared in my iPhone after I think an hour!

Never expected such service form Apple.
For me, MS is the bug champion but never Apple ... untill now

Why do we have to hear this unofficially? This is exactly the sort of communication that should have gone to customers in the first week, not to staff 3 weeks later.

It's a shame many of us are paying for a product that Apple is not proud of now.