A lot of users are disappointed.. Is this new service is working or not? While some are flexible some others are aggressive toward this unique service.
I’m from the moderate ones that think every new technology needs some time to be perfectly working, and I do not blame Apple for MobileMe’s problems.. after all, I had .mac!
First reaction, Apple decided not to use the word “push” anymore for the “over the air” synchronization of our datas.
Second reaction (that came with the first one), is a bonus of 30 free days offered to all of us MobileMe users (I’m still waiting for my MobileMe pref pan to be updated though)…
And finally, Steve Jobs, himself, decided to react and asked someone to write a post on Apple.com.
This page is there to inform MobileMe subscribers on the progression of MobileMe.
So… please, be patient, it’s not as if Apple is ignoring us!
A lot of people are complaining about the fact their iPhone isn’t receiving anything from the MobileMe cloud; and I was one of them; but I finally managed and it is now up and working!
Here are the steps I followed to make my iPhone sync my data “over the air“:
- Sync the iPhone and uncheck the email sync (in iTunes)
- Open mail.app and deleted my .mac account
- Setup a “brand new” mobileme account
- Sync from system preferences the datas (contacts, ical etc)
- Sync the iPhone and check the MobileMe account (in iTunes)
- Went to the iPhone and set it up (pref>general>mail, contacts…) to sync these datas over the air
- (I saw) the contacts names appearing instead of their phone numbers in the recent/missed calls and on the SMS received and sent but still nothing in my address book
- Restart the iPhone: everything is there!
I still don’t know which of these steps made the “thing” work though…
Another update, this one will completely remove all the traces of .mac from your Mac.
iLife Support, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD will now show that little cloud instead of the .mac logo.
Still nothing for Aperture and … keychain; but I guess it will be out soon (in a Leopard update I guess).
Another snag we have run into is our use of the word “push” in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe “cloud,” changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the cloud and your other devices. So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word “push” until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too.
Apple also rewards us with a 30 day extension to MobileMe, I’m eligible yay!
I can’t believe what I’m seeing!
The URL starts with a regular “http” instead of “https”!
There’s not “lock” icon on the right corner of Safari!
How can this possible? Very bad days for Apple it seems…
Can someone please explain me?
The Leopard Version of the MobileMe updater was posted by Apple a few hours ago, it wasn’t and it is still not available from your Software Updater.
But a strange thing happened… While it was possible to download the package from here, the link now, is dead.
I have no idea on why this is happening…
Anyway, one thing is now sure, Leopard won’t turn to iTunes OS!
A possible solution is to get it from a Torrents website, for example, this link takes you to a downloadable MobileMe updater.
The file is small: 25 Mb, once installed, you’ll have the updated MobileMe icon in System Preferences instead of the ancien .Mac icon (I’m still looking for the updater for Tiger).
If you check your Software Update after installing the file I linked you to, you’ll see the version 1.1 of MobileMe Updater!
I was expecting to see a small cloud in the menu bar instead of the old double arrows circle, but all I had was… nothing.
I just did another test this morning (sending my @me.com address an email) to see if it has been activated and YES it is active!
To me the transition to mobile can lead to 2 possible scenarios: on my opinion there will be another OS X update (Leopard & Tiger): thesis, but another scenario is possible too: antithesis.
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