Others say...

"Worth a revisit! Disastrous launch but dramatically improved since."
I notice a lot of the reviews - particularly the negative ones - are dated in July of '08 when the service launched. I think it's important to write a fresh review of things as they stand now, at least for me.

I was one of the people who first tried MobileMe when it officially launched, and I almost immediately gave up on it. Horrible stability and reliability, and for two solid weeks straight, I couldn't even log into the service.

Then Apple began extending the trial periods, and after about month or so, I revisited MobileMe after the problems started to clear up. I can now say that MobileMe is VERY reliable and VERY worth using, in my experience.

I use mobileMe presently to sync my calendars and contacts across three Macs and one iPhone. I also publish my calendar on the web for friends and co-workers to collaborate with. Push functionality works well on the iPhone, and I have my Macs set to sync every hour, making sure everything is up to date on a regular basis. Mail has also been very reliable for me, and I've recently started to add photo albums as well.

No doubt, the launch was really disastrous, and the negative publicity it got at the time was well deserved. however the problems appear to have been fixed and the current MobileMe service is MUCH better.

"Rough Start, but Much Improved"
I was one of the suckas who signed up for this service on July 11th when it was released. It was horrible, BUT Apple has done a 180 on this product and is doing leaps and bounds to fix the issues. Their tech support is good and they've helped me work thru some of my issues. This product is something that should never have been released when it was, but they extended the trial period to 90 days to make up for it and I'll probably pay for it once the trial is up. It's a great service for us iPhone users. The Mobile Me email interface is weak, but I don't use it anyway since my other IMAP and POP3 accounts work just fine. I love how it syncs my calendar and contacts with Outlook and my iPhone. Apple still needs to make some improvements on the me.com site, but for now I'd say it's worth the discounted price from Amazon...not the full retail price from Apple.

"MobileMe is incredible - Please ignore the Apple bashers"
This is an incredible product. I own several PCs, Macs, and and iPhone and MobileMe keeps contacts and calendar events flawlessly synced across all of them. It is incredibly easy to use. When I upgraded my PC, I simply installed the MobileMe control panel, checked off a few boxes, and seconds later it imported all my contacts, calendars, and bookmarks. Cant ask for anything more.

"Mobile.MeSS"
THIS ISN'T A REVIEW WRITTEN THE WEEK MOBILE.ME CAME OUT, IT WAS WRITTEN MONTHS LATER IN MID-OCTOBER. The product is still lousy, and no where near the quality .Mac was.

I'm a LONGTIME Apple product & software nut, going back to the Apple LISA (google that!)

This summer, my .Mac mysteriously changed to something called Mobile.Me. Apple in their arrogance of NOT giving me a "heads-up" on what they were about to do (or giving me tips on how to use the new Mobile.Me) really made a major PR and "branding" error.

I suspect everyone reading this review knows the issue going back to the Summer of 2008. Well, read on, I'm writing this on October 13, 2008.

My wife and I bought two each iPhone 3Gs on 10-8 and with these, we had the chance to get two each "free" trial versions of Mobile.Me for 3 months. We both tried the "trial versions" and we were so disappointed, we have already canceled. If Apple can't even give these away for "free" I don't see how they expect to sell this service.

#1. I dropped my .Mac e-mail address for several reasons, mainly because under Mobile.Me, it takes FOREVER to access the Mobile.Me main page and then click on the mail feature (it was like this on day one of the Mobile.Me launch and now in October it STILL runs and loads slower than I can bear. (I got a new G-Mail account and it is super fast in delivering my mail to all my devices, Sony VAIO, 3 Apple Macs and my new iPhone.)

#2. The ability to back-up files to Mobile.Me accounts runs slower than an old woman walking across a Walmart parking lot on a spring day. Everybody these days has an external hard drive and backing up on my iBook is a snap.

#3. Sending photos to Mobile.Me is slow and complicated... There are lot's of other FREE services out there that run faster and are easier for friends to access.

#4. Videos on Mobile.Me? You can't beat YouTube and others for FREE postings.

Apple used to have a slogan, "computers for the rest of us." Now there slogan should be "Mobile.MeSS, it doesn't cost LESS, and it isn't the Best." Mobile.Me is to Apple, what New Coke was to the Coca-Cola company in the mid 1980s... a major booboo of the worst kind.

"MobileMe. I can not imagine being without it!"
I love this service! The 99$ subscription may be a little hard to swallow, but I can't see myself NOT using this service.

By far the best feature is the iPhoto sync with the online gallery! All I do is plug in my camera to iPhoto, it pulls the pictures from the camera, I tweak them ever so slighty, and post them on my Online Gallery for the rest of my family and friends to view at their leasure. If I make a change to one of the pictures in iPhoto, it automatically syncs the change. Beautiful!

The iDisk has saved me quite a few times when I have forgotten my flash drive at home and needed to save something to share on a diffrent computer.

The only gripe I have about this service is, I dislike the domain name for the e-mail address. ( yourname@ME.COM )I really liked the old domain name ( yourname@mac.com )But I do like the alias option.

Just like with anything that is new, There are a few bugs when syncing with the mail server, but they are usually fixed right away.

If you own a mac, or even if you do not own a mac ( i started using this service a few months BEFORE owning my mac ) This service is amazing!