RSSFirst Look: MobileMe promising, but limps out of the gate
By Ed Oswald | Published July 11, 2008, 4:08 PM
In my three plus years of covering Apple, its MobileMe product is probably the most exciting concept, in my opinion.
I've often longed for a viable "push" solution that wouldn't break the bank, and would operate much like Exchange does. In concept, MobileMe does everything I need it to do, pushing information from my PC and Mac to my phone and vice versa.
So testing it out for BetaNews wasn't a problem at all for me. I can say, however, with confidence that this is the worst release I have seen from Apple in quite some time. The system took nearly two days to get right, and at times still isn't working 100 percent.
Combined with what can be described as a mess of a launch for the iPhone 3G, it hasn't been a good day in Cupertino.
MobileMe finally became stable enough around 2:30 pm ET for us to actually take screenshots of anything other than error messages -- and what I've seen so far is promising, albeit frustrating to wait for Apple to work out the bugs.
Through Apple's trouble today, here's hoping they learn that keeping things under wraps so much maybe isn't such a good idea. Beta testing does work, you know.
Visit the photo gallery for a closer look at Apple's "Exchange for the rest of us"
Geeze, what don't you understand about version 1.0.0? "laughs"
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|Apple is selling it in stores. Its not beta anymore.
If its in a box it should at least install and do most of what is supposed to. And that is a pretty darn low standard at that. Glitches are one thing, show stopping bugs are another.
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|All you can say is you can't always know how much traffic your web site can have. BN should know what Error 500 is by now. I can count countless times coming to BN and getting Error 500, and it being slow and the CSS files not loading and betanews looking all messed up tossing out errors. Error 500 is probably one of the most common errors to come along. Even companies like Blizzard whenever they release a patch for World of Warcraft their forums start tossing Error 500 cause there is so much traffic and its bogging their system down. The only Error Messages I have found on MobileMe is error 500, nothing else, BN reports the same.
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|It's already version 1.1.
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