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MobileMe Retail
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List Price: $99.00
Special Price: $69.99
Your Savings: $ 29.01 ( 29% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Apple
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Apple
EAN: 0885909242122
Feature: 20GB of combined email and file storage, 200GB of monthly data transfer, and full access to everything MobileMe has to offer
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MB824Z/A
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2008-07-12
Studio: Apple
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Features
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20GB of combined email and file storage, 200GB of monthly data transfer, and full access to everything MobileMe has to offer
Use a complete set of desktop-quality applications to organize and store your most important information; changes, new messages, and events are automatically synced up to the cloud and back down to all your devices, so you're always up to date
MobileMe applications--Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk--feature an elegant, unified interface, drag-and-drop support, and more; works with native applications you use every day--Outlook on a PC and Mail, Address Book, and iCal on the Mac
Create stunning online galleries for your photos; share photos with friends and family, let them download print-quality images, and even allow them to add their own photos
Store and access files from anywhere using MobileMe iDisk; share files that are too big for email by automatically sending a download link to recipients
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Editorial Reviews:
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Imagine running beautifully designed, easy-to-use Apple applications on your PC. At me.com, you can check your email, manage your contacts and calendar, share photos, and store documents. The applications are so intuitive and clutter free that me.com could become your new desktop. On a PC, MobileMe works seamlessly with the applications you use every day. You can use Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Contacts on XP or Vista. MobileMe automatically pushes your email, contacts, and calendars ? and even your Safari or Internet Explorer bookmarks ? to your other computers, iPhone, and iPod touch. If you have more than one PC, use MobileMe to keep email, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks the same on all of them. If you have a Mac and a PC, they can share the same information. MobileMe will keep your computers, iPhone, and iPod touch in sync and up to date. Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Another year with iTools/.mac/MobileMe
Comment: I enjoyed this service when it was introduced by Steve Jobs some eight years ago as a free service. Dropped it like a dead frog when they started charging $99/year. Apple recently gave me a free year of .mac for mishandling my notebook repair. Since then I've been using the service mostly for the included backup utility. Now, the Mac OS (Leopard) has a built in backup routine, so that's not important.
I'm still trying to find a way to justify the cost. If you need online storage, it's okay. If you like the .mac or .me email address, it's your only choice. But there are lots of free online storage and email solutions these days.
One service I did use and appreciate was the iCard feature, which has now been removed. Adding to my disinterest in future renewals.
At least it's not as expensive through Amazon. For $74 USD shipped, it's less of a pill to swallow. But unless they add some value between now and next year, I'll pass on future renewals.
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Summary: it's the perfomance that's nebulous
Comment: Well, I wish I had a chance to read these reviews on Amazon before I bought it. I have had a macbook pro since 2006. It worked so well, i decided to go for a iMac and mobile me. The downdraft of Vista and the problems with that system motivated me to try something different from the Microsoft monopoly.
Let me preface this by saying the staff were patient and courteous. Truly, their patience and courtesy set a bar. The same way one can be against a war and support the troops, one can be less than thrilled with a product and still support and appreciate the staff. Availability of staff with whom one can actually communicate also functions as a significant advantage to Windows. Try to find someone from Microsoft who will even talk to you and you know what I mean. Monopoly power gives them a lot of leverage. Buy their products and you become a "Microserf." You spend so much time into its maintenance they draft you into the company. That way you support their profits.
I cannot sync mobile me. I don't know why. I am a meat and potatoes user. I do little extravagant or experimental on this computer. Syncing is the heart of mobile me. If you can't sync files and settings, it falls far short of it's promise. After six hours of very patiently working with customer support, they tell me the only chance of getting the product to work is to totally reboot the iMac system. That means archiving all the data, reinstalling all the software, then hoping it actually works because you don't repeat a mistake already made. They did find out I am missing a file on my hard drive. Somehow mobile me keeps erasing it. To keep life interesting, the application iSync won't work either. The missing com.apple.iSync file does count.
Bear in mind that in my personal experience, I have already had to do two reboots which save the applications and data that require an hour each. This is just since I purchased the computer in July, 2008. Today was the third.
It's like having a high maintenance significant other.
If you want a unified platform that's easy to use and links your PDA, your desktop, and your laptop, if you want something that works well, and if you are crunched for time and don't have the energy for all this, I suggest you wait a few years until they get this past the testing stage and have an easier to use product. Once you commit, they will not refund your money. You are trapped. They did give 60 days "free" to all Mobile Me users because of all the bugs in August 2008, but at that price, you're underpaid. How much is your time worth? Do you want to change from a microserf to a bit(e) out of the apple?
By the way, the iMac, except for Mobile Me, can be a honey. And it does boot up quicker than Windows computing, but Apple's success at cloud computing is nebulous at best.
I have not tried it personally, but I have heard about SugarSync across Windows and Mac platforms. That may be the product to try, particulary if it's month by month and does not lock you into a two year contract.
I am not sure Amazon will allow this to post, but goodness only knows, there are a lot of negative reviews here. Take heed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's horrible!!!!
Comment: I have been an exclusive mac user for 20 years and Mobileme is the worse product from mac that I have ever used. I lost all of the contacts from my iphone and address book. pouf, gone, just like that! Customer support could not help me and acted like they could care less. It's junk. They need to take it off the market and fix it.
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Summary: It works fine NOW! Take reviews pre-August 1 with a grain of salt...
Comment: Almost all the reviews giving it 1 star are from the horrible period where Apple switched from .Mac to me.com and launched the iPhone 3G.
Those days are over now. It all works fine now. So all these complaints about it "not working" are now moot. I was angry at the time about the transition, but it's all worked fine for over a month (with 1 email outage for a couple hours), and it will only get better.
I would give it 4 stars due to some things they could improve, but gave it 5 to help cancel out all the spiteful 1s that no longer apply. :)
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Summary: Good product, which like all cloud stuff struggles
Comment: I have used .Mac for about a year, and now that it has transitioned to MobileMe, I have to say that I think that it is a bit better. When I got my iphone, the phone immediately picked up over 400 contacts, calendar info etc. And that was as I was leaving the Apple store. There have been problems. Apple bit off more than they could chew, I believe, but they gave users, 3 months of access. Apple tries, it seems to me, to take care of their customers. That is more than I can say for much of the IT industry. I have had little problem with MobileMe except for the startup, when it went down. I have since upgraded and hope that it gets better. Apple seems to work hard to make their products fulfill what they have promised.
For me, email, calendar, photos (from iphoto and iphone), backup (which is slow, because, primarily of my net speed), and contacts, all work great. That, tied together with a great program like Omnifocus, and things are good. I have to give them a solid review, because, while they did choke a bit, they seem to be moving along quite nicely now.
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