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sweet!!

now we get 90 days free.... way to go Apple... nice gesture.

Aug 18, 08 - 10:27 pm Comment from: REALTORben

I've yet to have an issue with MobileMe. Everything has worked perfect for me. I almost hope that people (other than me of course) have problems, then I keep getting free service

Good to see Apple is compensating its customers for these problems.

Aug 18, 08 - 10:31 pm Comment from: trex67

No problems here, but I'll gladly take the free 60.

Maybe, just maybe, Steve's world will realize the mistake of devoting all their human resources to the frills like the phone, the tunes, and such is a failed strategy when the core faithful who made it all happen are taken for granted. Time to turn full attention to the Mac and the OS. Lots of ground to be made up here.

Everything was fine for me, as well, until now. This evening I have lost all messages except for my sent folder. This only affects my .me account. Anyone else have this issue? I could not find anything on Apple's support forums relating to this.

Aug 19, 08 - 12:49 am Comment from: elgruga

All fine, but I love the extra 90!

Aug 19, 08 - 12:59 am Comment from: MacSmiley

30 days + 60 days should bring me to an expiration in January 2009, not December 2008. I'll give Apple a few days to fix then, then if it's not fixed, I'm gonna call

Customer Relations at 1-800-767-2775

and tell them to get me the complete 90 day extension of what we're not getting anymore.


@Dance With Who Brung Ya

I totally agree. Long time .Mac subscribers have been really snubbed by this transition. I have one apartment, therefore I own one Mac. I have no need for a laptop, and the iPhone is not sold in the state I live in. Therefore, I have no need of "push" services that don't work with my Palm Centro. Even so, why should I have to lose all the value of the ancillary .Mac services... especially <i>Apple iCards!!</b>

There are two petitions clamoring for the return of Apple's iCards:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ic110608/petition.html

and

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/06291970/petition.html

Feel free to add your signature to the 1,000 other voices crying in the wilderness!!

@ Dance With Who Brung Ya:

Oh come on. Do you really think that developing technologies like Multi-Touch won't benefit Macs in the near future? The ability to optimize OS X to run on the iPhone is HUGE for the future of OS X on Macs. While Windows continues to bloat and have problems, OS X gets optimized and takes less and less space. Look at what Snow Leopard is expected to become.

Also, new developers are being drawn to the iPhone, and we've already seen the iPod halo effect. More and more people are being exposed to OS X because of this "failed strategy".

@ Penelope Pickles:

Quit Mail, wait a couple of minutes, and relaunch. It should sync up with MobileMe and your messages will be restored. Happened to me this morning.

If that doesn't do it, log out and log back in. That should force the synchronization.

Aug 19, 08 - 01:06 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

MobileMe was rocky for me, at first, but it is working perfectly now, and has been for quite some time.

Thanks Apple for the goodwill.

Aug 19, 08 - 01:07 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

@MacSmiley--

iCards? Really? I'd rather have my mobile bookmarks back.

Aug 19, 08 - 01:18 am Comment from: MacSmiley

@bizlaw

I don't see MobileMe as a failed strategy. I just don't believe that all this exciting progress has to come at the expense of people-oriented .Mac services.

My Flickr photo of the iCard I sent Steve Jobs is pushing towards 3,000 views, almost half of which are coming from search engines looking for terms like "What happened to Apple iCards" and variations thereof. Every single search represents a distressed person who's getting nothing but a generic MobileMe error page when they go to send that special someone that special iCard on that special occasion.

So after hard-heartedly canceling the service, Apple is too callous to even post a notification on the old iCards website. There's simply no excuse for the neglectful way Apple has handled this transition.

Aug 19, 08 - 01:19 am Comment from: MacSmiley

@ TheConfuzed1... Web bookmarks, too.

Aug 19, 08 - 01:44 am Comment from: The Other Steve

In the last two weeks I wowed (apologies to Microsoft) my editors by putting the photo department schedule on iCal and making push changes available to anyone in the newsroom. They love it and have no idea of any Apple problems with MobileMe. Having the schedule on my iPhone is also a big big plus.
It's been working great and so has my email.

For those that have had problems, the additional 60 days is a smart move.

Happy to hear Apple has some big plans for the future of MobileMe in addition to short term stability goals.

Aug 19, 08 - 03:02 am Comment from: Macromancer

"Maybe, just maybe, Steve's world will realize the mistake of devoting all their human resources to the frills like the phone, the tunes, and such is a failed strategy when the core faithful who made it all happen are taken for granted"

Oh BOO HOOO you're so persecuted. A major selling product like the iPhone is not a frill you fool. When you wake up and acknowledge that the iPhone is actually a hand held Mac, and that this App store is bringing more developers to the Mac platform, maybe you will realize this point.

Aug 19, 08 - 06:00 am Comment from: R

For all 100 people suing iCards, it must be a huge loss. My condolences. Grieve, move past it in time.

Have you considered Hallmark, eCards, or using some free Mail.app templates? Though you may have loved iCards, can't you now see how chintzy they were? It's time to upgrade. Seriously.

Aug 19, 08 - 06:39 am Comment from: silverwarloc

When I upgraded to my iPhone 3G, somehow, my iCal is not being pushed.

I'm one of those affected. I've not been able to sync iCal on my computers with MobileMe. MobileMe works well between the clouds and my iPhone, but there's no synchronization among my Macs, my iPhone and "the cloud." My fear is a sudden ability synchronize and I lose the calendar information I currently have stored on my iPhone and MobileMe due to merged information.

I'm glad to read many of you have had no issues, but this has been a pain for me over the past month.

Can we have bookmarks feature back?

MacSoftwareList.com

@bizlaw--

Sorry, but I think multi-touch on the computers is counter-intuitive and a bit of a pain. And before you ask if I've ever used it--yes, I have.

Aug 19, 08 - 08:17 am Comment from: jocknerd

Another bogus gift from Apple. So you have 90 free days now added on. Thats only good if you plan on dropping it at some point. Meanwhile, you've paid for those months where the service was crap. Apple should have refunded you instead.

I purchased Mobile.Me on July 11th with my iPhone. I love the service. eMails are pushed to me immediately.

Contact synching has some work to be done, to get it right.

All in all, I am a very happy camper. Mobile.Me combined with the iPhone is fabulous!

Aug 19, 08 - 08:54 am Comment from: shen

"Another bogus gift from Apple. So you have 90 free days now added on. Thats only good if you plan on dropping it at some point. Meanwhile, you've paid for those months where the service was crap. Apple should have refunded you instead."

wow.


epic math and logic fail. truly epic.

Aug 19, 08 - 08:58 am Comment from: DLMeyer

To R, and all those others who dis the value of iCards: you are missing the point! Or, more likely, SEVERAL points. While it may well be true that you could get a "postcard" service elsewhere - and better ones, with tunes included even - these came at a cost ... advertising. The only "ads" included with Apple's iCards were the subtle notice that you had received an Apple iCard. As for the "all 1,000 of ya", what ever gave you the idea there were only a thousand of us missing that feature? 1. my mother enjoyed getting iCards (much more than I enjoy the competition) 2. The Mail templates only work if a. you use Mail and b. your recipient uses a compatible reader, and are quite limited.
I appreciate the added 60 days, though most of my significant problems were over within a week. I've lost much of my ability to host minor personal web sites in my ".Mac space", and that matters to me.

Aug 19, 08 - 09:07 am Comment from: Tommy Boy

They still haven't fixed my inability to sync contacts. Grrrrrr...

All you "full attention to the Mac" dudes better get used to the idea that this business is gonna grow, and it's not gonna grow just by making changes to an OS and building speedy computers. As it has been said, all this other development is only going to HELP the Macintosh stay ahead of the pack. Just like we just made fun of mikey dell for "skating to where the puck is", you guys are asking Apple to do the same? I don't think so.

If you plan to stay with .mac, or now "mobileme", what benefit is 90 days free? So my card is charged 3 months later than it would have, but the same amount is taken out. Not sure there is much benefit. It seems that the perceived benefit is much greater than the actual benefit. For those planning on dumping mobileme, 3 months free is a benefit. To the rest of us, it simply alter when I see the charge to my card. Woohoo!! I'd be more impressed if the 1% of mobileme users that were hosed for over a week and lost some emails that will never come back were given something tangible, rather than a blanket shifting of when we all pay for the service. If that is still coming, then bravo. If not...thanks for pretty much nothing.

Aug 19, 08 - 11:30 am Comment from: R5D4

MobileMe email has problems, and the old .mac email was better. When you have a new message window open, the address book icon at the top doesn't work, so you can't select an address to insert. On a few occasions I have written long emails that are lost because they are not automatically saved to draft after 20 minutes like the as in the old .mac mail. Also, sometimes the auto complete function for the "To:" box does not work. Sometimes, the send icon doesn't send the message, it makes the message disappear, there is no "woosh" send-off sound, and the message is gone forever.

So yeah, I'll take the 90 days. Plus we should get a free day for everyday the web-based email isn't fully operational and relatively bug free. I can remember no bugs in .mac mail, that's for certain. A 100 bucks a year is plenty expensive for what you get, especially when it doesn't work right.

Aug 19, 08 - 11:32 am Comment from: alansky

What Apple is trying to do with MobileMe goes so far beyond iCards that it isn't even funny. But... The iCards feature will be missed by any subscriber who enjoys sending electronic greeting cards for the simple reason that the number of web sites offering a reasonable selection of free ecards is dwindling fast. Many of the sites I've used in the past now charge for all but a paltry selection of lame designs. To all the über-geeks out there who could care less about this subject: There are other things in the world besides high technology.

Am I the only one who's missing Groups? Haven't seen anyone else talking about this but it really sucks that MobileMe has done away with .Mac Groups with not options to replace them and no ability to add more. This is really starting to piss me off. I have been a long time .Mac subscriber and iWeb user and both are starting to let me down. iWeb doesnt allow users to leave comments - and now with Groups gone how can I support my community...I have tried iComments but can't get it to work. Apple please offer us an option to replace Groups - the ability to add comments to a page in iWeb would be a nice option.

Aug 19, 08 - 09:13 pm Comment from: Hg Wells

OK. For many of us who have had ,Mac from the beginning (and iTools before that), the 90 day extension is now pushing our payment for renewal too close to our gift giving time and other end of year expenses. I suggest that Apple extend the freebie an additional 90 days to minimize the financial stresses during that time. Otherwise, we'll have our new due date at an inconvenient time each year. (How about that?)