Re: [CGUYS] Apple's Mobile Mess

2008-07-26 Thread mike
Macbreak weekly 98 had Merlin Mann nearly beside himself and going on a tear about Apple's crappy migration. At one point he admitted he no longer felt comfortable slamming MS as he had the last fifteen years because clearly things got more difficult for companies when scaling was involved. Leo

Re: [CGUYS] Apple's Mobile Mess

2008-07-26 Thread b_s-wilk
I dumped Dot Mac when they started charging for services that I could get free from Yahoo or elsewhere. .Mac was slow and not particularly reliable. MobileMe is not up to prime time either. More about MobileMe's failure to launch: MobileMe Fails to Launch Well, But Finally Launches,

[CGUYS] Apple's Mobile Mess

2008-07-25 Thread Tom Piwowar
Today the press finally announced that the emperor has no clothes. Apple's MobileMe service is a screwed up mess. http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/07/24/technology/circuitsemail/index.ht ml and several others. Back when dot Mac was just a nice add-on service for desktop Macs it didn't