Filed under: Bad Apple, Apple, MobileMe
MobileMe DOA?
Looks like it. You can't access the main MobileMe page. Apple says this on their MobileMe support page:" MobileMe members are intermittently unable to access MobileMe services. Mail is available via a desktop email application, or Mail on iPhone or iPod touch. Normal service will be restored ASAP. We apologize for any inconvenience."Well, at least that page is up. Seems like MobileMe has had a rough couple of weeks with issues concerning mail, Back to my Mac, and syncing.
The MobileMe service had a rocky start and has had a variety of issues over the last year or so. Let's hope Apple gets things back on an even keel soon. So far this morning, MobileMe is MobileGone.
UPDATE: Some of us are able to log in, but it has been up or down for various people throughout the morning. The status page still says the issue is intermittent as of 3:15pm ET.
UPDATE #2: Looks like everything is back to normal. Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Dan Johnson said 3:20PM on 10-12-2009
As of 3:18 PM Eastern all seems ok with MobileMe....outage seems short lived. I never noticed it was gone, and use it all day.
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iyla.is said 4:47AM on 10-13-2009
I cannot even get the site to load!
Alexander Acker said 3:24PM on 10-12-2009
It's fine. Geez, these blogs are ready to pounce to report anything bad with Apple to get a "scoop". Relax guys, MM works just fine. Technology sometimes need to go down for one reason or another.
Delete this post. It's now worthless
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hookup2987 said 3:28PM on 10-12-2009
It back up but i see a new icon for find my iphone at the top!
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Joshua Ochs said 3:37PM on 10-12-2009
Meanwhile, does no one here know what DOA even means?
"Dead On Arrival". You might argue that the service was DOA when iTools became the fee-based dotMac, but saying it's DOA now makes no sense.
First blogs did away with journalistic standards. Now language standards follow...
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Marcos said 7:10PM on 10-12-2009
I was thinking exactly the same thing when I saw the headline: "Isn't it too late to write a DOA article on MobileMe? It's been out for a while now".
ex said 3:39PM on 10-12-2009
the new find my phone and account settings are not currently working.
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ipodrulz said 3:42PM on 10-12-2009
It sounds weird and it might be stupid - but Apple could revive their MobileMe service if they did this.
Make MobileMe a service that's bundled with a purchase of a Mac, add a chat service. This inadvertently "convinces" people to use it. This is a method RIM used with BlackBerry... all the teens wanted to get in on this BBM, and they sold to that market like hot cakes.
When a user buys a new mac, give them an option to register MobileMe account - it might be another email account that they won't ever touch, but it might be the only email they'll ever use. Especially if they integrate it into their OS deeper than they can Gmail or Yahoo.
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Travis Walls said 7:30PM on 10-12-2009
Pretty sure they already do both. You get asked to sign up for MobileMe when you boot your Mac for the first time, and they offer chat via iChat (you log into AIM using your MobileMe account).
ipodrulz said 7:44PM on 10-12-2009
No you gotta purchase MobileMe for 99$ a year. If they bundled it and made the integration even tighter.
Jordan said 10:07PM on 10-12-2009
Imagine the lawsuits that will follow if Apple ever becomes popular market share wise with all the integration they perform. Monopolistic lawsuits everywhere.
ipodrulz said 10:24PM on 10-12-2009
True - though no need to force anyone. Just market it like, "We're giving you the best online service for free, you can choose to sign up or not."
Jordan said 11:24AM on 10-13-2009
That's exactly what Microsoft tries to do, yet look at all the crap they get. Can't even ship their operating system with their own web browser in the EU.
stephen said 4:03PM on 10-12-2009
MM is still down for me, just tried to access the webmail. Frankly if it wasn't for the fact that my wife loves her MM email account name (a very simple one I registered when it was free) I would cancel it entirely and save myself the $110 a year.
1. The spam filter is non-existent. When i complained to support they said you really have to use the Apple Mail OSX app to get spam filtering & I prefer webmail for obvious reasons.
2. Its slow... painfully slow to access. It takes 10-15 seconds to switch sections or refresh pages. Compare this to Google which is so much faster. If you try to use MM's webmail as your main email service, its useless. If you use the web mail part once a week or so its no big deal but if you only want to use the MM web mail - its torture on a daily basis.
3. Its not real imap mail, if I delete a message on my iphone it still shows up on MM webmail until I take an action and then it "figures it out." Ugly.
Apple needs to understand that a web services needs to be fast fast fast. Not ponderously slow - trying to emulate an ilife application.
Do what I did, go to MM pref's and auto forward your MM mail to a free google mail account and only check mail thru google. Gmail will spam trap all the crap MM ignores and its real imap mail. Ten times better.
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Deon said 4:28PM on 10-12-2009
Man stop whinning about MobileMe if you don't like it hen go to Microsoft I'm pretty sure the Sidekick users would love to have MobileMe right about now.
Mike said 5:04PM on 10-12-2009
he has every right to complain MM is $99 and to this point Mobile Me has been trash and not worth the price.
Goetz said 4:28PM on 10-12-2009
Is this "find my iPhone button" new (between idisk and settings)?
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robslaw said 4:09PM on 10-12-2009
Well, I have now been without my calendar on both my ipod and my wife's iphone since 9:00 am est on Thursday. I spent 4 hrs on the mm "chat" on Thursday night only to be told they had no idea what was wrong and that I should take both to the nearest apple store. Then I spent 1.5hrs with the "genius" bar only to be told there was nothing wrong with either device. So the sent me back to mm chat to have the resolve. After another 2 hrs on the chat with mm they escalated it to MM "super support". They are reviewing the issue. So for those of you that aren't having any problems... congrats. But for those of us that are it sucks.
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Jay said 4:16PM on 10-12-2009
my @mac and @me ichat accounts are both broken
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Jeff said 4:19PM on 10-12-2009
I've had intermittent problems with me.com since last week. Couldn't login on Friday. Calendar syncing quit this weekend.
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