Criminal Defense Law With An Apple

I have been slowing testing the stability and reliability of Mobile Me for the last 6 months. It is always difficult to go back to a program that has proved problematic in the past. But I had a one year subscription and even Apple deserves to have a bumpy software roll-out.

After six months of using calendar and address book things have been going remarkably well. The program has synced across all three computers and an iPhone.  My caveat, I have only used Mobile Me for my personal contacts and calendar. Also, I have not used mobile me for document management or email. 

The one thing I did discover was that using Onyx will wreak havoc on Mobile Me. I am sure if it is a bug that needs to be worked out or who needs to work it out. If you run Onyx, then open up your calendars, you may experience multiple repeated calendar titles (as many as five). I suppose that is better than having them disappear. I am not married to Onyx, but it is a nice program to keep things clean, zippy and spiffy. But I am liking the idea of having a constantly synced calendar and address book. Now we are in search of a new tweaking/optimization program.

Mobile Me is giving current subscribers another 60 days free. From Apple,

We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received. We are working very hard to make MobileMe a great service we can all be proud of.  

I  presume this is in response to all the grumbling regarding the additional email outages that users experienced. However, even old-reliable-gmail users were stung last week. I am waiting for some positive reviews before I can place my firms calendaring data in Mobile Me. I am still testing address book and push, with the iPhone.

Apple and I have had our moments. And they have been known to get heated.  Nevertheless, most of the time, Apple does the right thing. Today the company did something that takes a great deal of integrity and moxy. They apologized. And gave us all a free 30 days of service as a symbol of their sincerity. For me, this is enough to bury the hatchet. For those that rely heavily on this service…well, you have to carry that firewood yourself. 

Not a good week for Apple, at all. Apple always takes a beating when they make the smallest of mistakes. But the last 5 days have not been small. It is been a major meltdown. Old iPhones aren’t working. New iPhones aren’t working. And mobile me is sorta working, but not the way it was described. The only reason I am not included in the ever-growing number of angry iPhone users is a an upcoming trial that prevented me from swinging by the store this weekend. Now caution and good sense has me waiting for good news.  So now what Apple? 

I could not sign in until about an hour ago. I was able to view Address Book and it looked super slick. Then I went to look at iCal and the site hung-up. After that, I have not been able to sign back in.  So far? Er…uhm. I suppose we will give them some slack for another 24 hours. For all the hype, this was a poorly executed opening day.