iDisk iPhone app arrives, there is much rejoicing

I have to agree with the comment above about iDisk being another example of MobileMe being 2nd rate compare to other Apple endeavors. Just some of the stuff we should be able to do:

-Move files between folders
-chose files we want to cache locally (not just a que), and don't limit us to 200MB.
-Upload pics taken on the iPhone to the pictures folder.
-Get rid of the download limit. Quickoffice lets me download any size file I want to.
-Don't make people sign in when they first start it. The info for MobileMe is already in if you have your email set up, just use that (this might seem petty since it hardly qualifies as an inconvenience, but I think it is more a sign of the haphazardness of MobileMe. The bad part about Apple is the closed enviornment, the good part is things mesh so well together. Don't get sloppy about the good part).

What amazed me is this took them over a year to come out with! If it had been issued when they rebranded .mac last year it would have been nice, but it really is pretty bland for them to have taken 13 months to finally get to.

Here is the real task for Apple. To me Back to My Mac is the only truly great part about MobileMe (spam free email & the iPhone finder are nice too, but BTMM is the one app I really like). How about extending BTMM to the iPhone? Screen sharing might be a stretch, but it should be no big deal for me to access the file directories on my Mac. THAT would have been a great product.

I downloaded the idisk..love it. MobileMe is great...however, after a few minutes the idisk icon changed from the blue and white cloud to a gray icon with a figure walking. Did this happen to anyone else.. why did this happen. Everything seems tobe working just right...so no biggie..just curious.

Great! This feature is what I really need, it will definitely help in organizing my contents in iPhone. I just hope that they include photo apps functionality. But, who knows this will be available for us in the future! :)


~Andy
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I was hoping for the iDisk user experience I get on my Mac on iPhone / iPod touch, and, at least with version 1.0, this ain't it.

None of the current crop of iDisk access tools support the Mac OS colored file labels, and Apple no longer offers the iDisk application for Windows, instead giving Windows users the web interface, which pretty much sucks. I was hoping the Apple iDisk app would give Windows users the Mac iDisk experience. I use the mac OSX colored file labels on iDisk all the time to track workflow on small projects, and it would be very handy to be able to *see* these labels on the iPhone / iPod. but this app doesn't do that, in spite of the fact that the iPhone / iPod OS is supposedly "Mac OSX".

I need to be able to create new project folders, and rename files and folders when I log in to my own account. And as other users have pointed out, when I am on my own iDisk, I want access to every one of my files and folders visible on iDisk from my computer.

Because I am paying annually for a Mobile Me account, I was hoping that the iPhone / iPod companion app would far exceed other options like Dropbox, but version 1.0 doesn't get me any closer to managing my iDisk from the iPhone than Dropbox does.

I'm hoping that Apple comes out with some upgrades to this app that give us more control over the files and folders we are already paying for in Mobile Me.

I think it would be nice if I could email a doc out of iDisk but I do not see that option.

An iDisk app that wasn't locked to MobileMe would have been nice.

I have been waiting a while for this. Does anyone know how to keep a folder on my mac synced with a folder in iDisk. I keep my work files in one folder and it would be great to have access to it through the new iPhone app.

Useless if, like me, you already have Quickoffice (which has more features anyway).

So this means this should come standard with 3.1, right?

I'm with you. I don't think there is anything so great about this. It basically looks just like MobileFiles. Now I use QuickOffice which is the same, but with editing capabilities. I guess it's nice that they finally put one out there and it is free, though.