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Apple updates MobileMe

by Dave Caolo Jun 18th 2010 at 10:00AM


MobileMe emerged from its downtime this morning with a new app, improved navigation and significant changes to Mail. The app is MobileMe for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Now customers can locate, lock or even wipe their lost device from another iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Of course, that means you'll need access to two devices, but that's a minor technicality, right?

The new version of Mail is out of beta and available to everyone. There are a lot of changes here, including some that have been added since the beta program started. New widescreen and compact views allow for more of your messages to be seen without scrolling. The older classic view is still available, but seems cluttered when compared to the other two. I'm using the compact view, which displays messages like the iPad does in landscape orientation.

Rules are now in place for everyone (they need a few minutes to get working), and apply to messages received on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad as well.

One-click archiving will send your messages to the archive folder for future reference. It is possible to select multiple messages at once, making archiving easier. Also new is faster performance (there's no need to click and load every message), SSL security and a formatting toolbar. You can even reformat long URLs into something more manageable.

Changes that are new since the beta release include support for external addresses. Now you can read all of your mail in one place. Plus, if you reply to a message received from an external address, you can send it from that message, not your MobileMe account.

Junk mail filtering has also been improved since the beta. Now, flagged messages go directly to the junk mail folder. You can always go in and rescue false positives, however.

Aside from Mail and the new Find My iPhone app, MobileMe navigation has been changed. All of the services now feature a unified toolbar. The cloud icon remains constant, and clicking on it brings up an app switcher for moving between services.

Have fun exploring the new MobileMe. Congratulations to Apple and the MobileMe team on a solid update.

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abrenner

I'm interested in what the readers here have to say about this situation:

My boss sync's her mobileme account to her PC at work. Up until Monday morning around 10:00 a.m. (eastern) I was able to use mobile me to view and schedule appointments.

Since then, nothing. I cannot login with the new changes. I get an error message that the program is now using something for compression that is not available on our PC system. Any suggestions? And no, the powers that be here will NOT switch to Macs.

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

June 22 2010 at 11:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
itzumang

@russdogg
comment #3

U don' kno wht Beta is... do U?

June 21 2010 at 11:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wako

and the question continues... WHY ARE WE STILL PAYING FOR THIS!?

June 20 2010 at 1:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
feddeg

I think the new webmail is a huge improvement.
For me the main reason not to permanently switch to mobme was the fact that there were no 'custom from addresses' possible. But now there is! For me that's more releant than the fact that I need to click twice instead of once to go to calendar (I mean, come on! How much work is that! If that's really your main concern, then I think mobme did a great job. I can think of many more annoying features in gmail, yahoo, hotmail) (yes I know those are 'free'. Well, you pay by bring scanned and bombarded with ads)
OK, £59 is quite expensive, but I am sure it'll come down once cloud computing really picks up and more competitors enter the market.
My 2 cents...
Cheers

June 19 2010 at 3:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jash Sayani

I loved the initial release back in 2008.

June 18 2010 at 8:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg

I found the contact syncing absolutely horrible. Being a gmail user and a Mac user, my contact list bloated with replicates of my contacts. It was awful, I spent hours removing the damage and I'm still finding them synced to my other devices. They really need to learn to play better with other address books.

June 18 2010 at 5:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
trishdubois

I am a 100% Mac. person and I HATE Mobilme. This new version screwed up my e mail for most of the day.

June 18 2010 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bill Mac

So far I like it. Mostly because now iDisk access is no longer BLOCKED by my work IT security overlords! :)

June 18 2010 at 4:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greenscreen

I noticed that you can now send email to your mail groups, but it doesn't suppress the list. I guess I'll take it.

Now if we could just send to groups on iOS devices...

June 18 2010 at 1:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeremy Writebol

So are they going to update the Mail App? Given the new "Archive" button they had better do something nice in the OS X side or this is just a crappy web-only update (which I never use).

June 18 2010 at 12:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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