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.
This post has been updated. See below.
The migration of Apple's .Mac service to the new MobileMe service apparently didn't go as smoothly as it could have.
The scheduled changeover of users' .Mac accounts to MobileMe, or .Me accounts, was scheduled for 6 p.m. to midnight PDT Wednesday. The migration was then pushed back to 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
But Thursday at 11 a.m. PDT, neither service was accessible, at least to several people in San Francisco. Reader Deidre Wyeth also complained that .Mac account photos were inaccessible Thursday, and instead the site redirected to the Apple.com/MobileMe page.
Apple spokeswoman Khyati Shah said migration was complete Wednesday night, and as of Thursday morning Me.com should display .Mac users' mail, calendars, photos. She insisted that the pages were working for her, but said she would check into it.
In the meantime, we'll see if we can find out more. Anyone else having issues reaching their .Mac or .Me accounts? Let us know in the comments.
Update: At 11:50 a.m. PDT, the Me.com site was accessible again, though Mac.com still appears to be down.
Update: At 12:30 pm. PDT, Me.com appears to be down again.
CNET Reviews' Elsa Wenzel contributed to this report.
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