Thanks Carlo. I appreciate you taking the time to take a look at the problem, it's a good suggestion. It won't work for me due to the sync issue, but may work for others.
Yes, my response may be negative, but no apology there. Apple's move is negative. I don't consider it negative on the basis of my personal objectives not being aligned with Apple's wider objectives. My ego falls short of me thinking I'm the most important Mac user and therefore all users should think and use their Apple equipment like me. However Apple has: Encouraged paying MobileMe users to "upgrade" to the new Calendar without giving prior warning of this important issue. What about business users who, for privacy reasons, don't want his or her personal email address divulged to all? By the time it's discovered, it's too late. I can think of plenty of scenarios in which this could prove embarrassing for those who prefer to, or even need to, have clear demarcation between personal and business communications. Unintended disclosure of a personal email address can lead to the uncovering of all kinds of additional details of an individual. Removed choice in terms of how a user's calendar works, again with no advanced notice. knee-jerk - adjective. "automatic and unthinking" (Apple dictionary). My reaction is neither automatic nor unthinking. I've been an advocate for Apple since 1994, and I remain so, but after thinking about it, albeit it didn't take me long to decide, I stand by my view that the move is either sneaky or stupid, mainly because of the wider ramifications it will have for quite a few, and the nature of those ramifications, ie. potential breach of privacy. I don't need to align my view with those who don't think the move is neither sneaky nor stupid. We're not living in a police state. As terrific as most members of this group, including me, think Apple and its products generally are, Apple shouldn't be protected from the critical voice of its users, minority or otherwise, when an arguably dud decision is made. Any organisation which takes that view has a short life expectancy. Sure, some users will think the "me.com only" is a fine decision, others won't, and others won't give a hoot either way. But I'd be prepared to bet a large sum of money that I'm not a tiny minority of iCal /MobileMe users who don't want calendar invitations to come from an email address which invitees have never heard of. Especially when the user, a paying user mind you, finds out only after the event. No hard feelings Carlo, just healthy debate and me getting my back up momentarily about what may be .... well .... a knee-jerk comment from your side. Cheers, Steven On 25/03/2011, at 8:06 PM, cm wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > Such a negative knee jerk reaction does make me less likely to respond. > Apple's objective in serving the majority of its customers may not always > align with your personal objectives. > > In any case I have just tested a work around that may or may not be useful in > your case. One can create a calendar that is not part of Mobile Me by > selecting in iCal File => New Calendar => On My Mac. An invitation sent from > this calendar will then originate from your local Mail application rather > than from the Mobile Me server. If that meets your requirements you can then > transfer your appointments to this calendar with an export from the old > calendar and an import to the new. The drawback of this workaround is that > the calendar on your Mac will no longer be synchronised with Mobile Me. > > Another work around which likely does not apply in your case but may apply to > some other members of WAMUG is that one can register one's own domain name > with your Mobile Me account. I believe that then the mobile me email would > then appear to come from your own domain name. > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 2011-03-25, at 17:05, Steven Knowles wrote: > >> >> Thanks Ronni. Subsequently found same quote at the support forums also. As I >> alluded to at the forums, the move is either sneaky, or stupid, and has put >> a dent in my respect for Apple. >> >> On 25/03/2011, at 6:43 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 25/03/2011, at 2:03 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> MobileMe asked me recently to "upgrade" to the new calendar version, which >>>> I reluctantly did. Now if I set up a Calendar entry via iCal and invite >>>> others, the invitation is sent from my me.com email address, rather than >>>> the one I usually use. >>>> >>>> I can't see anything obvious, how do I override this setting and have iCal >>>> send invitations from an email address other than me.com ? I only have my >>>> me.com address in order to have a MobileMe account, so I don't want to use >>>> it publicly. >>> >>> Hi Steven >>> >>> I don’t have an answer for you, other than send feedback to Apple. >>> >>> This is what Apple Support had to say: >>> >>> "I do understand your concerns and see how this issue can be frustrating. >>> Unfortunately at this time The new MobileMe calendar does not support >>> inviting people to calendar events with personal emails. I do encourage you >>> to leave feedback about this feature as our engineers do look at customer >>> feedback to help make our features to customers better.” >>> >>> <http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2790250&tstart=0> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
