Will You Renew MobileMe?

[Wyatt]

As things stand right now I probably will even though my laptop is running Windows. But if I can get my hands on an Air before November then I'll renew without even thinking about it. You get so much more from the Mac over Windows and even without that the price is decent. $8.25/mon. ($99.00/yr) is not bad.

[llofte]

I love having MobileMe. I think I have now finally got an email address that I will forever keep!

I got MobileMe when I still had a PC and it was great then. But it's even better with a mac!

Oh, and I signed up the first day for the free trial and didn't actually have to pay until December! They kept extending my free trial for various reasons =D

[wabbit]

nope, they sync sucks, if you change sync settings iphone deletes it, 10 gigs for 100bux for a year is a ripoff, hell microsoft offers 5 gigs and 25 gigs FREE!

when apple can offer a superior version that beats FREE then maybe, till then its JUNK. 99 is ripoff for the sub par service.

[melwan]

I want to buy it so bad. I am just waiting to get my first Mac.

[JFSikora]

Originally Posted by wabbit

nope, they sync sucks, if you change sync settings iphone deletes it, 10 gigs for 100bux for a year is a ripoff, hell microsoft offers 5 gigs and 25 gigs FREE!

when apple can offer a superior version that beats FREE then maybe, till then its JUNK. 99 is ripoff for the sub par service.

Service is fine. Syncing is fine as well... For what you get, the price is on par with exchange servers (You use exchange correct?) and you get more for your money with MobileMe... You must have some bad luck.

[Txdogs]

So have any of you had problems with your primary email 'pop' being sideswiped by your MAC with MobileMe? I use that particular address for a lot of my email communication and after I had MobileMe for awhile it would not allow me to send email via that pop email address.

[Brickman]

Originally Posted by wabbit

nope, they sync sucks, if you change sync settings iphone deletes it, 10 gigs for 100bux for a year is a ripoff, hell microsoft offers 5 gigs and 25 gigs FREE!

when apple can offer a superior version that beats FREE then maybe, till then its JUNK. 99 is ripoff for the sub par service.

Actually it is 20G per year for $99. I have heard of some people that use Windoze having trouble with MoMe. Also when MoMe first rolled out there were many problems, but in true Apple form they corrected them in a timely fashion. (more than we can say for most companies)

Like BA said, MoMe is in line with other on-line storage companies ( ie. Box.net). There are free versions of other on-line storage out there with the same or larger storage capacity, but they do not have the same features as MoMe. (ie. Push email, Calendar, sync storage all automatically sycned. That is the true beauty of MoMe)

With "free" you usually get what you pay for.

[Brickman]

Originally Posted by Txdogs

So have any of you had problems with your primary email 'pop' being sideswiped by your MAC with MobileMe? I use that particular address for a lot of my email communication and after I had MobileMe for awhile it would not allow me to send email via that pop email address.

I think I know what you are talking about Txdogs. I use MacMail and I have (had) three accounts set up in MacMail. Personal, Company, MoMe. I have disable Company because it was, IMO, redundancy. What I do now is I just check to see what account the email is to be sent from first before I send it. It is an old habit.

The one thing that I wish MoMe did was allow you to send through MoMe but have it show up as though you sent it from another account. (ie. sent name@me.com shows up as my name@company.com) Gmail lets you do this and I really liked it.

[Txdogs]

Originally Posted by Brickman

I think I know what you are talking about Txdogs. I use MacMail and I have (had) three accounts set up in MacMail. Personal, Company, MoMe. I have disable Company because it was, IMO, redundancy. What I do now is I just check to see what account the email is to be sent from first before I send it. It is an old habit.

My pop email is through a local cable company called Charter. I can't even get DSL yet and we've been in the same house 20 years. Anyway, if I was responding to an email sent to my Charter account, MoMe would block the Charter server and only allow me to 'send' from MoMe. That was my main complaint and I could find no way to resolve it. Otherwise MoME worked great syncing between my Iphone, Imac, and Macbook.

[Brickman]

That is strange. I am on Charter also for my personal account but I actually did a "test" to see if I was having any problems and did not know it. All was fine. When I "clicked" on my personal account in MacMail it sent just fine and showed up fine.

I wish I was smart enough to tell you what to do, but I am stumped.