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Comments on: Mossberg pans MobileMe amid service outages

In a rare slap at an Apple product, the Journal's Walt Mossberg suggests people avoid the MobileMe service, even before taking into account the e-mail outages of its first few weeks.

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by itzawrap July 27, 2008 11:36 PM PDT: My opinion....MobileMe is stupid. Doesn't work as advertised....groups gone, icards gone, bare bones interface lacking in the traditional Apple style and experience and features. Feeeling like something is missing....All that for 100 buck a year. Such a deal!

I may leave after being with .mac from the beginning. Don't want to pay extra to another site for the ability to send a card to someone. Don't want to fight with software or tech support or corporate arrogance.

And the more I think about it the more stupid the name sounds to me....MobileMe, Yikes!; Like this Reply to this comment


by cyclelogicpress.com August 1, 2008 8:00 AM PDT: Everything seems to have settled down. The apps look great and are easy to use. I don't mind paying $8.25 a month for it. Just the other day the address book feature saved me a drive. :); Like this Reply to this comment


by MacSmiley August 2, 2008 4:07 PM PDT: I have ONE computer. My cellphone is not an iPhone because AT&T doesn't do business in my area. So what good do "Push" services do for me? Absolutely nothing!

Meanwhile, I am very upset with Apple for nixing the previous .Mac services package... especially iCards. Thanks for the "upgrade", Apple. Thanks for the 30 more days I'll have to miss what I'm no longer are getting!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/macsmiley/2652541101/

They were simple, they were elegant, and they didn't plaster recipients with advertisements, HTML, and flashing GIFS.

I got responses from sending iCards I never got from sending emails... not even emails with pictures. The combination of whimsical images and text in one small, savable JPEG in the iCard message was hard to resist.

Despite some less handsome alternatives, iWant Apple iCards Back!!

There are two petitions clamoring for Apple to bring back iCards. Feel free to join the chorus!

http://www.petitiononline.com/ic110608/petition.html

and

http://www.petitiononline.com/06291970/; Like this Reply to this comment

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