p2pnet news view | Mobiles:-Using Push technology, Apple’s MobileMe paid Net service was supposed to, “synchronise appointments, addresses and email with Windows PCs, Macs, iPhones and the iPod touch instantly,” says Heise Online.

But, “In practice the Apple US web site is only promising synchronisation every 15 minutes between ‘Cloud’ and PCs or Macs, while for users of Mac OS X 10.4.11 the automatic interval is set to one hour,”  says the story, pointing out a page on Apple’s support sit explains intervals can be changed from those automatically set.

Now Apple has had to email users to apologise for using ‘push’ in describing the MobileMe service, “resulting in the impression that near instant data synchronisation could be expected at product launch time,” says the story, adding:

“As compensation for the problems in the new service Apple has given all their current subscribers an automatic 30 day free-of-charge extension to their MobileMe subscription.

“There is also an obvious bug in MobileMe, namely that the button for terminating a 60-day trial period doesn’t work. heise online queried Apple Germany about the points mentioned, but the company had not responded at the time of publication.”
. .Stumble It!

Heise Online - Apple’s MobileMe gets off to a shaky start, July 18, 2008

---

Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!

Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile - http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php

---

Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details. Download here.

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 7:04 am and is filed under Mobiles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

HOME

Viewed 3265 times