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MobileMe Goes Live

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 at 8:50 AM - by

Apple's MobileMe came online Thursday morning following an overnight transition from .Mac, the service it replaces. MobileMe includes most of the features .Mac subscribers are familiar with, but is enhanced for better data sharing between computers, the iPhone and iPod touch.

.Mac subscribers can continue using their current user name and password to login to the MobileMe Web site where they can access email, contacts, and calendar information, view their online photos, and more.

MobileMe includes Web-based versions of iCal, Address Book and Mail, and can push information from those apps to or from an iPhone or iPod touch with the 2.0 Software Update.

Some users are experiencing slow MobileMe load times which may be a side effect of too many people accessing the service to try out the new features.

MobileMe is priced at US$99 a year, and current .Mac subscribers have been upgraded to the new service for free.

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geoduck said:

member since 30 Dec 2003 with 1921 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:30 am

They?re not off to a good start IMO

I am a .Mac customer that was upgraded. My old link to .Mac web mail is down. Fine that's cool, I understand that. But I just spent ten minutes crawling all over the MobileMe pages linked above and I'll be damned if I can find a button to login. There's a bunch of places to subscribe and descriptions of each part, and lots of advertising copy about how great MobileMe is but how in the hell do you log in if you are already a subscriber? I even went to the Apple home page and the only link to MobileMe takes me back to the page linked above.

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A guest said: (hide)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:38 am

geoduck is right: no login

so what is all this MobileMe goes live stuff?

and the mac.com page still redirects to a 'maintenance' placeholder

somebody's printing press releases without checking on them

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A guest said: (hide)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:41 am

Having problems too. . . I finally did get in, but when I tried to check my e-mail, I got bounced to the apple info page on MobileMe. . . What I did see was impressive, though it will take some time to get used to the changes.

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A guest said: (hide)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:46 am

I also noticed that my .Mac preference pane gives me an error when I check my account info. You would think that Apple would have patched the preference pane in 10.5.4 to prep for this transfer. I am still getting my .Mac e-mail through Entourage just fine, and I rarely use webmail except when traveling or at my job.

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Mikeal said:

member since 26 Sep 2006 with 3 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:46 am

Yep. Still down. Even the Support discussions are down.

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A guest said: (hide)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:49 am

MobleMe is NOT online as yet. Please don't post a report that says the service came online overnight when it clearly has NOT. And you link above only takes us to the MobleMe page on the Apple Store, not the MobleMe online service. If you can't get it right, don't print it. When I look for Apple related news, I want accuracy, not PR from Apple.

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A guest said: (hide)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:56 am

MobileMe was live... I logged in... but then it went offline again. So the article is true, but needs to be updated.

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bgarlock said:

member since 02 Aug 2006 with 10 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:56 am

I got the login page, put in my info, and then it brought me to the apple.com/mobileme page. All that excitement for a redirect! My syncing is on/off. I logged out of .me (.mac), and now it wont let me back in. Also, why did they change the .me to a pink icon for the idisk? I think I will change that back to the original icon.

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Planeten Paultje said:

member since 15 Apr 2004 with 71 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:57 am

Give it a day

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A guest said: (hide)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:32 am

I tried to log on this morning. The new MobileME logon page came up and the new application page started to load, but the screen never fully populated - and now you get a "down for maintenance" screen. I tried mail and calendar and it got partway done but never finished.

Looks like it got crushed as soon as it went live and they had to take it down and tweak it.

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Jeff Gamet said:

member since 15 Mar 2006 with 102 posts, TMO Staff, send him a message or view his profile

Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:16 pm

Anonymous wrote:
MobleMe is NOT online as yet. Please don't post a report that says the service came online overnight when it clearly has NOT. And you link above only takes us to the MobleMe page on the Apple Store, not the MobleMe online service. If you can't get it right, don't print it. When I look for Apple related news, I want accuracy, not PR from Apple.

I'm all about accuracy, too, which is why I wrote my article after pointing my Web browser at www.me.com, and logging in using my .Mac user name and password -- which felt to me like proof enough that MobileMe was live. Apple has since redirected the URL back to the MobileMe promotional Web site, and my guess is that the service will be up and down throughout the day while Apple gets all the kinks worked out.

Also, Apple so far hasn't issued a press release announcing that MobileMe is active, that iTunes 7.7 is available, or that the App Store is online and working, so don't worry, you weren't getting any Apple PR here.

Jeff

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looper said:

member since 21 Jan 2002 with 16 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:17 pm

Another glitch is that some of the pages on my mac.com website display missing-graphics-file icons (blue question mark in Safari); the pages were created using iWeb (most recent version), and the missing images are template elements rather than my own photos, for what that's worth. Anyway, the fix would be to start up iWeb and select "Publish All to .Mac" from the menu (will they release updates to iLife applications to change references to .Mac so they refer to MobileMe?); however, iWeb tells me to log in using the .Mac control pane (ditto an update to OS X 10.4.11?) in order to do this, but I get nowhere.

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A guest said: (hide)

Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:01 am

Still not working.

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A guest said: (hide)

Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:27 pm

once i move my website and photos off of my idisk, i am cancelling .mac/mobile me. this is complete BS. the reliability has been subpar for the last year, this just seals the deal

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Planeten Paultje said:

member since 15 Apr 2004 with 71 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:12 pm

MobileMe is working here in The Netherlands as far as I can see. Let's see how it holds up and how long it takes Apple to iron out the last minor buggerisms.

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Planeten Paultje said:

member since 15 Apr 2004 with 71 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:01 pm

So they indeed pulled the MobileMe v1.0 update for OSX and today replaced it with v1.1. Both my machines are now up and running with it.

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