The Mail app includes an auto-complete feature for filling in addresses as well as a Quick Reply tool, unique to the Web version of Mail, that lets you reply to a message without opening it. MobileMe Mail is jut one of the apps available online when Me. You have a three-pane view that, from left to right, shows you groups of contacts, an alphabetical listing of contacts in the selected group, and then info for a specific contact. As for MobileMe Calendar, it looks like—you guessed it—iCal.
Mac form that is to say, without the push aspect that Apple is touting with MobileMe. It offers month, week, and day views as well as multiple calendars, each with its own specific color. You can create events by clicking on the calendar interface and dragging the subsequent box to set the duration; drag-and-drop functionality also lets you move events from calendar to calendar.
Any Mail, Contacts, or Calendar changes you make in the Me. As with Web Gallery, you can upload and arrange photos, select sharing and display options, and generate a URL where other people can view your photos.
And Apple TV owners will still be able to watch slideshows via the Photo menu on their set-top box, as they could with. Subscribers will need Mac OS X When MobileMe become available in July, Apple will automatically switch your.
Mac account over at no cost. Mac address when Apple makes the switch. Mac account. If you want to send from the me. The addresses will work separately as iChat IDs, however. Users who want an Apple-flavored cloud storage option will have to turn to iCloud now. Apple announced it would eventually be shuttering MobileMe and rolling some of its services into iCloud last summer.
If you haven't yet transitioned data stored on MobileMe to another service, you can still download Gallery and iDisk files from me.
Apple put up an informational website to help ease the pain of MobileMe's shutdown, including links to longer articles for people looking to transition from iDisk. When my Apple Mail program used rules I had set up to automatically file certain emails into local folders instead of leaving them in the inbox, they simply disappeared from my MobileMe account on the iPhone and the Web site.
Avoiding this requires a tedious editing of all your rules. Twice, MobileMe was unable to sync my bookmarks at all, and when it did, their order was scrambled. When I synced contacts to my iPhone, my custom ringtones for particular contacts were lost and had to be reselected. And that is precisely my point.
Apple is letting other cloud services define and strengthen the relationship between our desktops, laptops, and mobiles more than Apple is. What are iWork. When MobileMe launched in , Microsoft Exchange really was its most direct competitor, in terms of features. Starting in or so, it was possible to leave MobileMe behind with a handful of now-defunct applications. In October , just over three years after announcing MobileMe, Apple replaced with a free service: iCloud. The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour.
There are several things we could have done better:. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence. We are taking many steps to learn from this experience so that we can grow MobileMe into a service that our customers will love. One step that I can share with you today is that the MobileMe team will now report to Eddy Cue, who will lead all of our internet services — iTunes, the App Store and, starting today, MobileMe.
The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services. And learn we will. The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year. According to a participant in the meeting, Jobs walked in, clad in his trademark black mock turtleneck and blue jeans, clasped his hands together, and asked a simple question:.
For the next half-hour Jobs berated the group. Over the next few years, MobileMe grew more robust, with true push syncing coming to the Mac and wide-spread service outages and sync delays being a thing of the past. However, the service could never outgrow its own reputation. The pitch was rather simple. Other Features MobileMe was more than just emails and other personal data.
Native Integration vs. The Web MobileMe was a web service, but most users interacted with it via the native apps on their Macs, iPhones and PCs, not a web browser.
Immediate Reactions Early reviews of MobileMe were bit of a mixed bag. Less than a month after launch, Steve Jobs wrote a company-wide email concerning the service: Team, The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour.
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