Comments on: MobileMe Update 2: Nevermind, it still sucks

By: Paisley

Paisley — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:14:52 +0000

Mobile Me and iPHONE sync great. Mobile and iCAL DON’T SYNC at all. WORST. Mobile Me continues to be a joke.

me: MacBookPro running Tiger 10.4.11 — I realize Apple prefers to force people to upgrade. but it’s sad they don’t give a sh-it about the rest of us. Lame-O!

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By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:25:18 +0000

Dave,
Apparently, my continued skepticism of MobileMe is warranted. After reading your experience, I think I may wait until Apple engineers get around to coming back from their collective vacation.

By: davelawrence8

davelawrence8 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:54:03 +0000

Thanks Doug. That’s my theory: something flaky with the “old sync setup” you mention. I do want to try it all again, just to give it a fair shake. But also, other Tiger users have been having problems – so that could be it. Hell, it could be anything.

By: Doug Petrosky

Doug Petrosky — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:13:08 +0000

Odds are that you are having an issue with old sync setups. You probably want to stop all of your currently syncs and push out your most complete version. Then re-sync everything back to the good copy on the net. It appears that long term subscribers have dead sync computers and other issues that make the process, problematic.

When things are setup correctly, they work very well. Example:
I added an event on my phone with iCal and MobileMe Calendar both up. With in 1-2 minutes, without refresh both showed the new meeteing. Updating the entry on my computer (and not forcing a sync) caused me to wait about 10 minutes or until the next scheduled sync operation before I saw the change. A change on the MobileMe page showed up within a minute on both phone and computer.