I am an Apple fanboy, and I readily admit it. I drank the juice.
We have a Mac Mini (single core - old skool) that our kids use and a shiny iMac for us. I use a MacBook Pro at work (G5 prior to that, and a purple iMac before that). Before the Mini became our kids’ they had a really old G3 iMac that finally died after about 10 years of dutiful service.
We have 2 iPhones now, which are pretty cool. We also have a few other iPods (shuffle, nano, and video).
We have been long-time .Mac subscribers, and actually use everything offered by the service. This is the rub.
You may know already that the launch of the iPhone coincided with the relaunch of .Mac into MobileMe. Apple bit off a very large bite coordinating all of the things that had to come together. They dropped the ball, too. I would also say that AT&T did some fumbling, too, but I think Apple did the most fumbling.
What’s my beef?We have a family blog that we just recently redid. We’ve maintained it for over a year, and it is our family journal as much as anything else. We couldn’t publish updates for about a week. You couldn’t comment either. Then you could comment. Now you can’t again.
We just sent out a big email telling everyone to come check it out. Now we look like the losers who picked the worst blog tool possible.
The synching is also whacky. We have something that tried to update several times on 2 of our Macs all day long. It has been quiet for a few hours, so I think it may have finally updated.
I also installed some software that made the Mac forget that it had ever synched.
Come on, Apple. Your stuff is supposed to just work. Haven’t you seen those commercials that you did? You’re making me look bad as you piddle down your leg.