mobileme Problems in WSJ Review

July 24, 2008 · Filed Under Apple stuff 

If you want any more confirmation that mobileme is not ready for primetime, check out Walt Mossberg’s review:

I’m incresingly thinking that I may not need mobileme / .mac in the future.

Dropbox is awesome for files and syncing.
I don’t use Safari, I use Firefox 3 and Foxmarks for bookmark syncing.
I use Time Machine and SuperDuper for backup.
I have the iPhone 3G for email access and my iCal.

All begs the question, do I need mobileme? Hmmmm…. what do you think?


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3 Responses to “mobileme Problems in WSJ Review”

  1. Stephen Leighton on July 24th, 2008 9:15 pm

    Its not perfect lets get that straight. I think they will sort it, I loved .mac the idisk I like, the calader synch I love apart from the 15min lag. Easy work around, I change them all on my iphone :) and its another shiney apple product, and I like shiney apple products. Once it settles down there will be some love for this.

  2. Josh Klein on July 25th, 2008 12:24 am

    Nope. You nailed it when you talk about those other services. It may be a bunch of different places instead of a consolidated service, but what that means is that its a bunch of BETTER services, as there is narrower competition, and you get to pick the best of the best.

    Same reason you see all of the unix-like operating systems overtaking windows over the last few years (meaning OS X and Linux). They’re taking the best elements of everything and mushing it all together.

    Nice post.

  3. admin on July 25th, 2008 7:45 am

    Steve, I’m feeling a bit of love ;) but just not using the services as much as I first thought!

    Josh – bang on the money – pick of the best rather than making do. I’m impressed with Apple’s growth in the actual Mac market so people are slowly getting the fact that you DON’T have to have a windoze machine, and if you really need it, you can also run windoze on the Mac!

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