Oct 16, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble logging on to Mobile Me with Safari. Once I enter my > username and passwork it attempts to load but just hangs. > > I had no problem logging on with Firefox. > > Any idea what's going on? One gets the feeling that a lot of this iCloud stuff isn't quite ready for prime-time. Maybe it was rushed out because they knew Steve Jobs couldn't wait for them to finish. They just barely made it in time as it is. Here are a few examples that have been bothering me: Apple has a tech note out saying we can use standard IMAP for email, but I'll be darned if I can get a standard IMAP client to connect to my iCloud mail — and I've tried three different ones. Apple's mail program in Lion can connect and iOS 5 can also connect, so I know the user ID and password are correct. The Connection Doctor transcript in Mail shows they aren't quite using standard IMAP. Even then, they are often slow, as is the Web interface. In iOS, Pages, Numbers and Keynote can store their docs out on the iCloud, but their counterparts on Lion haven't been upgraded to do so. At the Stevenote where all this stuff was introduced, the document access was promised to be seamless between the Mac and iOS. There's an inconvenient workaround involving the iCloud Web page, but the seams show. Apple ID management is really a joke. For example, my daughter did the Lion upgrade yesterday and wanted to start using Mail with an Apple ID. Her current ID is her email address at the college she's attending because that's what she used to sign up for iTunes. She's having a terrible time getting an iCloud address because the system wants to default everything to her college address. I'm also having troubles because sometimes Apple's servers want [email protected] and other times they want [email protected]. These are glitches that will be worked out. I still think this whole iOS 5 and Lion upgrade should have been rolled out in bite-sized pieces for testing under heavy load. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
