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| From: Apple
Category: Software
List Price: $99.00
Buy New: $64.99
You Save: $34.01 (34%)
New (4) from $64.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 19
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: MB611Z/A
Model: MB824Z/A
UPC: 885909242122
EAN: 0885909242122
ASIN: B001BY45QO
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Rough Start, but Much Improved October 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was one of the suckas who signed up for this service on July 11th when it was released. It was horrible, BUT Apple has done a 180 on this product and is doing leaps and bounds to fix the issues. Their tech support is good and they've helped me work thru some of my issues. This product is something that should never have been released when it was, but they extended the trial period to 90 days to make up for it and I'll probably pay for it once the trial is up. It's a great service for us iPhone users. The Mobile Me email interface is weak, but I don't use it anyway since my other IMAP and POP3 accounts work just fine. I love how it syncs my calendar and contacts with Outlook and my iPhone. Apple still needs to make some improvements on the me.com site, but for now I'd say it's worth the discounted price from Amazon...not the full retail price from Apple.
 MobileMe is incredible - Please ignore the Apple bashers October 19, 2008
This is an incredible product. I own several PCs, Macs, and and iPhone and MobileMe keeps contacts and calendar events flawlessly synced across all of them. It is incredibly easy to use. When I upgraded my PC, I simply installed the MobileMe control panel, checked off a few boxes, and seconds later it imported all my contacts, calendars, and bookmarks. Cant ask for anything more.
 Mobile.MeSS October 13, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
THIS ISN'T A REVIEW WRITTEN THE WEEK MOBILE.ME CAME OUT, IT WAS WRITTEN MONTHS LATER IN MID-OCTOBER. The product is still lousy, and no where near the quality .Mac was.
I'm a LONGTIME Apple product & software nut, going back to the Apple LISA (google that!)
This summer, my .Mac mysteriously changed to something called Mobile.Me. Apple in their arrogance of NOT giving me a "heads-up" on what they were about to do (or giving me tips on how to use the new Mobile.Me) really made a major PR and "branding" error.
I suspect everyone reading this review knows the issue going back to the Summer of 2008. Well, read on, I'm writing this on October 13, 2008.
My wife and I bought two each iPhone 3Gs on 10-8 and with these, we had the chance to get two each "free" trial versions of Mobile.Me for 3 months. We both tried the "trial versions" and we were so disappointed, we have already canceled. If Apple can't even give these away for "free" I don't see how they expect to sell this service.
#1. I dropped my .Mac e-mail address for several reasons, mainly because under Mobile.Me, it takes FOREVER to access the Mobile.Me main page and then click on the mail feature (it was like this on day one of the Mobile.Me launch and now in October it STILL runs and loads slower than I can bear. (I got a new G-Mail account and it is super fast in delivering my mail to all my devices, Sony VAIO, 3 Apple Macs and my new iPhone.)
#2. The ability to back-up files to Mobile.Me accounts runs slower than an old woman walking across a Walmart parking lot on a spring day. Everybody these days has an external hard drive and backing up on my iBook is a snap.
#3. Sending photos to Mobile.Me is slow and complicated... There are lot's of other FREE services out there that run faster and are easier for friends to access.
#4. Videos on Mobile.Me? You can't beat YouTube and others for FREE postings.
Apple used to have a slogan, "computers for the rest of us." Now there slogan should be "Mobile.MeSS, it doesn't cost LESS, and it isn't the Best." Mobile.Me is to Apple, what New Coke was to the Coca-Cola company in the mid 1980s... a major booboo of the worst kind.
MobileMe. I can not imagine being without it! October 5, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love this service! The 99$ subscription may be a little hard to swallow, but I can't see myself NOT using this service.
By far the best feature is the iPhoto sync with the online gallery! All I do is plug in my camera to iPhoto, it pulls the pictures from the camera, I tweak them ever so slighty, and post them on my Online Gallery for the rest of my family and friends to view at their leasure. If I make a change to one of the pictures in iPhoto, it automatically syncs the change. Beautiful!
The iDisk has saved me quite a few times when I have forgotten my flash drive at home and needed to save something to share on a diffrent computer.
The only gripe I have about this service is, I dislike the domain name for the e-mail address. ( yourname@ME.COM )I really liked the old domain name ( yourname@mac.com )But I do like the alias option.
Just like with anything that is new, There are a few bugs when syncing with the mail server, but they are usually fixed right away.
If you own a mac, or even if you do not own a mac ( i started using this service a few months BEFORE owning my mac ) This service is amazing!
mobile me October 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is a great product. it ties my Mac computers and Iphone all together by sharing the info between them. it's really great.
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