Seems to me that MobileMe was the great leap backwards. I was an early user of .Mac getting an account shortly after they started the service. When it went pay, I bought it plus an email only account for my wife. It filled a niche for me in my personal use of computers.
What I liked best was it gave me offsite backup of important files and kept things like my bookmarks and keychains in sync. It also gave me a personal email address, but there were plenty of ways to do that. For me the rest was a bonus.
All worked well until last summer. I must say that personally MobileMe has been a disaster. My keychains are still often out of sync almost six months later. For a few weeks, I was in email preference wars between machines so that now I simply do not try to sync my email accounts or rules. It goes on and on, but I am for the first time really considering alternatives. I think MobileMe is now a third rate service at a premium price.
Extending my account was not payment enough for the time I have spent messing with and trying to fix things that worked under .Mac and have been repeatedly broken since. I am always worried about what next will break. Like others have noted, I miss many of the nice things like ToDos in the calendar migrating to my iPod Touch that went away.
I want to use computers to do things; not fiddle with them. MobileMe is, I believe, an unreliable service at a premium price. Apple deserves a black eye on this one and I suspect they don't care.
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What I liked best was it gave me offsite backup of important files and kept things like my bookmarks and keychains in sync. It also gave me a personal email address, but there were plenty of ways to do that. For me the rest was a bonus.
All worked well until last summer. I must say that personally MobileMe has been a disaster. My keychains are still often out of sync almost six months later. For a few weeks, I was in email preference wars between machines so that now I simply do not try to sync my email accounts or rules. It goes on and on, but I am for the first time really considering alternatives. I think MobileMe is now a third rate service at a premium price.
Extending my account was not payment enough for the time I have spent messing with and trying to fix things that worked under .Mac and have been repeatedly broken since. I am always worried about what next will break. Like others have noted, I miss many of the nice things like ToDos in the calendar migrating to my iPod Touch that went away.
I want to use computers to do things; not fiddle with them. MobileMe is, I believe, an unreliable service at a premium price. Apple deserves a black eye on this one and I suspect they don't care.