Pingdom posts insight into latest Mobile Me outage

I have used .Mac for 4 years now and after the initial transition to MobileMe I have had no issues.

I upgraded to a family account and have 2 iPhones (1st gen and 3g), a new iPod Touch, Alu iMac, 2 dell laptops and 2 XP PC's which all sync flawlessly with MobileMe.

I am actually glad that some of you ARE having problems, either through wanting MobileMe to do something that it can't do or by misconfiguring your systems. The more you moan the more free time I get on MobileMe. Its ACE !!

Yes I am still a subscriber. I was very happy with Dot Mac. It was very good.
Sadly for Mobile Me its not what has been promised. I agree Apple I think has stretched itself too thin with products. It lacks the support to back it up.
I will continue with Mobile Me unil the end of my subscription. I will Not renew.
I have already use another email service for my main communications.
I really see Apple slipping in its quality and its appears to be a trend.

Other than the initial glitches I have not had any serious problems with MobileMe. Does anyone know a service that offers push email and OTA calendar and address book syncing for iPhone for less than $99? There's less added value in MobileMe without an iPhone, of course.

@Christina

It's easy to throw an unqualified "calendar syncing was complete junk." The difficult part is to enlighten your readers why you think so. I can't even imagine what was junk. Also, what was unreliable with the email (after the glitches of the first month)? The email works fine and I had very little downtime -- the web interface has been less reliable, of course. But that's not your email. That's your email reader.

I had .Mac for years for email and iDisk. I have not really experienced any problems with Mobile Me at all, but perhaps my needs and those of others are not the same. I would like to see continued development of Mobile Me, as I'm sure that there are any number of additional things that could be done.

My only gripe is chat-based support. Although I have used it and it worked, at $99 it should be available via phone (North American-based) as well.

Ahh crap, here we go again...

MobileMe stinks, it's terrible, Apple is failing as they get larger, it should be free, etc...

I have been a MobileMe / .Mac subscriber since the begining, when yes it was free, but hosting something like MM costs money, bandwidth isn't free, and as stated by many other commenters, there is value in what is being provided on many fronts.

Yes, the outages were frustrating, but remember this was a major change, and with any major change, there are going to be bumps. Apple did what they could to make it right, I have three extra months of services because I was inconvenienced once or twice during the migration (YMMV) There have been plenty of other migrations that went even less smoothly, and nothing was offered in recourse with certain 'other' comany's products...

If you can see the value in MobileMe, you will have no problem justifying the cost, especially if you have multiple devices that can benefit from it's services.

If you can't see the value in it, then let you trial lapse and be done with it, at least you were able to see if it worked for you before you paid for it, I wish Microsoft would have let me try out Windows ME before I bought it, I would have 'cancelled' it during the first week. (day) (c:

Flame-tards activate! I've said something negative about M$ on an Apple blog... But, why... are... you... reading... this... anyway..¿ (c:

-Furbyslayer

No problems that i've noticed, and I use it for work purposes since the .mac days. My brother and I run a photography business and use the calender extensively to sync between our macs and my iphone. So far there have been no problems. Same goes for email. I love the fact that my emails, calenders and contacts are all so well synced with my iphone and macs.

I'm using MM for years already. I like most of it, however, the recent issues have peeved me off quite a number of times already.

regarding the "resource not found" bug.. well, I got that on the www.me.com page too, but when I entered www.me.com/mail manually, I got to the webmail interface w/o issues.. weird?
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The most annoying issue I have is the spontaneous reloading of the webpage whenever I am trying to write an email. i have no idea why, but the page reloads and poof, gone are changes.

I am a user of Mobile Me. I like the fact that when I put something into my calender on my iPhone, it will push it out to my wife's macbook and iphone. It makes some things a lot easier. I use the iDisk as a huge usb stick and it is great. I use gmail, so I don't care about the email.

Absolutely no troubles here. I'll continue to subscribe.

I have been a .mac subscriber for years and will let it expire at the end of this contract. I think Apple, as it grows, is having severe quality issues - it is no longer a "it just works" company with high quality - it is suffering the same ills as all other large companies which, although not surprising, is disappointing nonetheless.