Comments on: Surprise, Surprise; Mobile Me Still Considered a Disaster http://www.macblogz.com/2008/08/02/surprise-surprise-mobile-me-still-considered-a-disaster/ Bridging the Apple Community and Keeping Tabs on the Rumor Mill. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Timothy http://www.macblogz.com/2008/08/02/surprise-surprise-mobile-me-still-considered-a-disaster/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Timothy Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:21:28 +0000 http://www.macblogz.com/?p=458#comment-469 @ Dave: Apple made all these claims about Flash being useless. Then they come out and say that "everything Flash does can be done with other technologies, like AJAX." While they're right, when they were saying this, they hadn't put their money where their mouth is. Until Mobile Me. S So, Mobile Me was supposed to be Apple's showcase of why they BANNED Flash, as well as a major overhaul to Mobile Me. So to answer your question Dave..."What exactly is the point of instant push when you can’t count on the service being up?" I don't think Apple counted on the service being down like it has been. If anything, they are wracking their brains on how to fix this disastrous "over-ambitious" launch. Either way though, I sincerely hope that Apple is working around the clock to fix these issues. @ Dave: Apple made all these claims about Flash being useless. Then they come out and say that “everything Flash does can be done with other technologies, like AJAX.”

While they’re right, when they were saying this, they hadn’t put their money where their mouth is. Until Mobile Me. S

So, Mobile Me was supposed to be Apple’s showcase of why they BANNED Flash, as well as a major overhaul to Mobile Me.

So to answer your question Dave…”What exactly is the point of instant push when you can’t count on the service being up?”

I don’t think Apple counted on the service being down like it has been. If anything, they are wracking their brains on how to fix this disastrous “over-ambitious” launch.

Either way though, I sincerely hope that Apple is working around the clock to fix these issues.

]]> By: dave http://www.macblogz.com/2008/08/02/surprise-surprise-mobile-me-still-considered-a-disaster/comment-page-1/#comment-468 dave Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:50:18 +0000 http://www.macblogz.com/?p=458#comment-468 Um, while the transition has been a train wreck, what you have to look at is how Apple handles SaaS when the service has been stabilized. In the year before MobileMe was rolled out, dotMac mostly worked, with random rolling outages occurring on a weekly basis, and with Apple blowing off concerns with poor throughput from Europe. There is no reason to believe Apple won't fix the most egregious problems soon, but once the system is stabilized, I fully expect to go back to the dotMac level of support/uptime. That is, the system will mostly work, most of the time, but with random outages and poor feedback as to when any given problem will be fixed. Personally, I think that level of support is not worth it for free, let alone $100/year for dotMac services. But with all the 'push' services in MobileMe, it's even more worthless. What exactly is the point of instant push when you can't count on the service being up? Um, while the transition has been a train wreck, what you have to look at is how Apple handles SaaS when the service has been stabilized. In the year before MobileMe was rolled out, dotMac mostly worked, with random rolling outages occurring on a weekly basis, and with Apple blowing off concerns with poor throughput from Europe.

There is no reason to believe Apple won’t fix the most egregious problems soon, but once the system is stabilized, I fully expect to go back to the dotMac level of support/uptime. That is, the system will mostly work, most of the time, but with random outages and poor feedback as to when any given problem will be fixed.

Personally, I think that level of support is not worth it for free, let alone $100/year for dotMac services. But with all the ‘push’ services in MobileMe, it’s even more worthless. What exactly is the point of instant push when you can’t count on the service being up?

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