Daily Debrief: Apple's MobileMe has a tough time launching

During last week's frenzy over the launch of the iPhone 3G, another Apple product launch got somewhat lost in the shuffle. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, considering the glitches it ran into. The product is MobileMe and its intent is to link all of your Apple applications like mail, photo storage, and music all onto an online server so you can access your media from a variety of sources: home laptop, office computer, iPhone, etc...

In Monday's edition of the Daily Debrief, I talked with CNET.com associate editor Elsa Wenzel who has been dutifully--yet unsuccessfully--trying to play with the software and its features. The login site seems to be overloaded and kicks her off after a few minutes of poking around. Despite initial frustrations, Elsa seems optimistic that the service will be a good, comprehensive solution to the complicated file sharing people do between their various machines. As a .Mac subscriber myself, I know I will appreciate the extra storage and access to all of my media on all of my machines.

[Perry_Clease]

I have been using it since Saturday with no problem.

[ikramerica--2008]

It was supposed to be working Wednesday. It took 4 days, and the calendar is still broken during heavy traffic periods. At least for non-iPhone customers. I have a suspicion that mobileme customers with iPhones get top server priority over us lowly old .Mac customers who pay $99 a year... :(

[mayadanteamihan]

It has a beautiful interface, and I can now upload documents with relative ease, provided these don't exceed 1 gb.

But my gripe is that they totally lost my personal domain name! So I had to transfer to another webhost, one that I've already had for sometime. I'm not using MobileMe for my personal domain till they can work with other programs aside from Apple's.

[tangokid]

So far Mail works, iCal works, but I can't download any files from my Documents folder. I haven't tried any uploads.