Q: I love my iPad and iPhone4 and am a huge fan of yours and all that Apple does. I desperately want to stay inside of Apple’e ecosystem as much as possible. However, MobileMe is making it very difficult for me to do so. Unreliable/unpredictable syncing, creating duplicate entries (sometimes scores of them), etc. It’s almost unusable. And I know from forums (including Apple’s own support boards) that I am not the only one experiencing these very real and frustrating problems. Please tell me it will get better, and soon?
A: Yes, it will get a lot better in 2011.
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Better or free?
Had the same problem and I let the subscription lapse. I too wanted that to work. Hope it will be cheaper and resolve the problems that made it a pain.
I must be lucky or something but can’t say I have had any problems with MobileMe except when i initially got my iPhone and had a problem with double entries. A resync fixed that problem as I recall.
Don’t hold it like that…
El Steve
We sync our contacts thru MobileMe to two iphones and two macs. We keep getting multiple entries for contacts and my wife keeps blaming me. C’mon Steve. Help a brother out.
The “me” in me.com is absurd, IMHO. Sounds narcissistic.
@ mobile al
You are absolutely correct. I am embarrassed to have business emails coming from my iPad because I cannot change the me.com address. Please give us the ability to choose the return address we wish.
I’ve been with mobile me for quite a long time, and I can say it is definitely getting better. I am very pleased they have continued to add value over the years, and the best part is every time I upgrade my mac and iphone.. and now ipad- it’s pretty seamless.
I have a super fast internet connection- which helps immensely with iDisk. IF you have a slow internet connection- idisk will be somewhat slow.
Oddly- my GF has dupe sin iCal (i don’t). I will refrain from sexist user jokes tho. I need to get laid today
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it bloody well get better. now that the iphone location is free to non MobileMe subscribers, i’m essentially paying $100 per year for an email address and some dodgy syncing. they should drip the price to $29.95 and shore up the cloud stuff.
So MobileMe sucks ass? Funny, never read that here before today.
never had any problem with syncing calendar
not sure what the fuss is about
however, I do think the data storage aspect of MobileMe is slow with a capital S sometimes and the heavy javascript interface is not helpful especially if you are connecting using someone else’s slow PC – very tough to stomach
I gave up using MobilMe for syncing after I developed dozens of duplicates of EACH entry in my Address Book. It made the Address Book on my iPad and iPhone unusable. Even worse, there seems to be no obvious way to get rid of them and start over. For $99 per year it’s a complete rip-off. Apple’s absolute worst piece of software and an embarrassing failure in my eyes.
Maybe they’ll host external email and stop forcing everyone to use @me.com anyway
I have never had any duplicate entries from MobileMe.
I have had many clients duplicate their device entries by sync though both MobileMe and iTunes.
My problems with MobileMe:
1. me.com addresses (I still have a mac.com address)
2. Can get same functions from other sources for free.
3. Slow iDisk (even with fast internet connections).
4. Price point is still too high.
server farm = mobile me free per device or acct me thinks
would be a great feature of owning a mac or iDevice for all
Yeah.. the whole move from mac.com to me.com was a bust. Just created more misery and problems than it fixed.
I use it, but find it a bit ‘rickety’ at time…
Also, the whole shebang is poorly marketed, not well explained, and generally not up to snuff for the rest of what Apple offers..
After a year of use I still routinely get double entries in contacts and ical.
Sure it will Steve. How many Fscking years does it take to make Email work Steve?
MobileMe is pure crap. Apple should be ashamed.
He’s promised that before. It sucks. It’s always sucked. I say that as a charter member who would leave except all my email comes to my MobileMe address and it does sync calendars, contacts, bookmarks, etc to my computers and iPhone.
Mine works fine.
You can use a different email address in iOS Mail. Just tap the from box and it should reveal the CC, BCC and from address fields. Tap the field that you wish to edit.
Double entries:
Uncheck sync in iTunes for calendars, contacts etc.
@macca
You know….. if you look around …. you can find it cheaper than that…. shh don’t tell anyone.
Sort of on topic…
Does your Notes and ToDo info in ‘Mail’, sync as well?
@MobileAl
I totally agree with you. Fortunately, there is one saving grace; I have been a Mac.com user for 7 years and continue to use this rather than the me.com which I detest. I hope other earlier .Mac users are aware that they still have this option. For the rest, Apple better do something sooner than later. 2011 can’t come soon enough considering all of the other issues with Mobile Me and I too, unfortunately suffer similar problems.
Rename it back to mac.com … the me.com sucks!!!