Jul
2008
It may have a damn sexy login page, but MobileMe is making Kevin a sad panda. Upon watching the WWDC Stevenote, I was captured by the pure magic that seemed to be MobileMe. Make a change to your email or calendar, and boom, the change is made everywhere else. It was too good to be true.
Instead of pinging the "cloud" each time a change is made, it waits a while and gathers all your changes and sends them all in bulk, even with the MobileMe update installed for Leopard, still kind of in a "syncing" fashion. Where's the instant gratification we all saw in the demo? What if I make a change on my calendar and then close my laptop? Do I have to manually make it push so I know it makes it? Will the delayed updates cause problems if I make changes on multiple computers? On top of that, there's all the random errors and issues:
I will continue to hope and hold out for improvements to MobileMe because this is something I've been needing for a long time. Right now, as much as it wants to be like Exchange, it's not. I'll give it till the end of my 60-day trial, k?
Comments (1)
Jeremy Hart on July 15, 2008 12:01 AMI'm having the same trouble, Kevin, it doesn't seem to be the same product as the one we saw in the demo. Syncing - or in my case, lack of syncing - is an issue, but there's one thing I might be a little more worried about ...
You're a panda?