But why does it work in Firefox but not Safari? Sunday, October 16, 20115:01 PMLee [email protected]
> 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 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
