Since the release of MobileMe back in July, many subscribers have been left feeling the service isn’t quite what .Mac was. It got off to a bad start and many feel that releasing the iPhone 3G, software update 2.0 and MobileMe all on the same day was a bit too much for Apple to handle. At one stage the MobileMe servers crashed and many users lost their e-mails in the process.
I purchased a MobileMe subscription on the day of release along with the iPhone 3G. For the first few days, I had no e-mail at all — I simply could not send or receive any e-mails and was greeted by an error message. Although for me, it wasn’t too much of an issue. I wasn’t being moved from .Mac so I had no e-mails or data at risk, neither was I relying on my e-mails and other information. However many users felt the pain of the poor setup.
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, publicly admitted that Apple had bitten off more than they could chew on July 11th. Apple also launched a MobileMe status blog that indentified all of the issues they were having with MobileMe and what they were doing to resolve them. MobileMe subscribers were given an extra 60 days of free subscription to make up for the mess up.
An update has now been made to the MobileMe service in an attempt to bring the service up to Apple’s standard and the experience of using the cloud-based service should very much improve. Apple have said:
Since server-side updates are a bit more innocuous than a standard software update to Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, it’s easy not to notice that updates are occuring. Usually the only hint of these updates is that thinks just “work better”.
Apple believe that the update will bring:
- Improved experience when viewing galleries on iPhone/iPod Touch
- Improved localization for MobileMe web applications
- Resolved issues with attempting to ‘Reply All’ to some messages
Are you using MobileMe? If so, what do you think of the service? Leave a comment and let us know!
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