Apple runs into troubles with MobileMe

By Ed Oswald | Published July 11, 2008, 12:29 PM

After briefly going online this morning, Apple's replacement for .Mac has gone down yet again, with tests showing just about the entire service as unresponsive.

Visitors to the MobileMe site are being redirected to a maintenance page that says the service is "unavailable." Apple says that the transition is taking longer than expected.

"While core services such as desktop mail, iDisk and sync are available, the new MobileMe web applications are not yet online. Thank you for your patience as we complete the upgrade," the site reads.

BetaNews had been attempting to test out the service since about 10:00 am EDT, but found nearly every service to either be unresponsive or partially working at best. At one point, an authorization error was received when logging into the account.

New MobileMe users were treated to this message on Friday morning.

Apple had begun a rollout process on Wednesday evening, however problems started appearing Thursday. While users were able to sign in for a period then, it was unavailable until this morning.

It is unclear at this time whether the two issues may be related. A midday test by BetaNews showed an "HTTP/1.1 Service Unavailable" error when attempting to access me.com, while another attempt returned a "500 Server Error."

Update ribbon (small)

12:40 pm EDT July 11, 2008 - It appears as though some functions of MobileMe have returned early this afternoon, although Web access to mail and contacts still appear to be down at this time.

2:05 PM EDT July 11, 2008 - MobileMe is down again, this time showing this message: "New member sign-up is not yet available." BetaNews readers also report that the site gives warning messages to users of Internet Explorer 7, alerting them to possible incompatibilities.

2:30 pm EDT July 11, 2008 - Finally, MobileMe appears up -- for real this time -- with access speeds increasing.

Comments

They've already revised the MobileMe software to version 1.1.

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I hate Apple so much. My clunky 80 GB iPod is such a POS.

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Now if M$ would have this on their front page.. well you know the story

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Internet Explorer 7 is not fully supported
Internet Explorer 7 has known compatibility issues with modern web standards which affect Web 2.0 applications such as MobileMe.

You can use Internet Explorer 7, but you will not have access to all MobileMe features and will experience slower performance.

For the best MobileMe experience, please use Firefox 3 or Safari 3.

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What exactly does microsoft have to do with the article or are we deliberately trying to make ourselves look foolish?

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Internet Explorer 7 has known compatibility issues with modern web standards which affect Web 2.0 applications such as MobileMe.

I would guess that's from the MobileMe website.

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Thanks for bringing that up... we'll add it into our coverage. It's an important oversight. Not every user on MM is using a Mac, or Firefox on Windows :D

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I stand semi corrected then :)
I read the article not the MobileMe website hehe.

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As usual, why should your being aware of an issue have any bearing on your usual nonsense that you post?

LOL!
Congrats, Ghost Buster. Say "hi" to Buffy for me.

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Whatever you say Dave ;)
bit late to the party but whatever you say

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Thank skimore, not me. He's the one who did the research. ;)

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what a douche bag

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"For the best MobileMe experience, please use Firefox 3 or Safari 3."

One small nit skimore... MobileMe does NOT currently work with Firefox 3 (even though the browser requirements state Firefox 2 and above).

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