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India Press Store - MobileMe Family Pack
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List Price: $149.00
Our Price: $95.20
Your Save: $ 53.80 ( 36% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Apple
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Apple
EAN: 0885909249909
Feature: Individual account plus four Family Member accounts, each with its own email address, 5GB of combined email and file storage, and 50GB of monthly data transfer
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MB825Z/A
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2008-07-12
Studio: Apple
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Features
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Individual account plus four Family Member accounts, each with its own email address, 5GB of combined email and file storage, and 50GB of monthly data transfer
Use a complete set of desktop-quality applications to organize and store your most important information; changes, new messages, and events are automatically synced up to the cloud and back down to all your devices, so you're always up to date
MobileMe applications--Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk--feature an elegant, unified interface, drag-and-drop support, and more; works with native applications you use every day--Outlook on a PC and Mail, Address Book, and iCal on the Mac
Create stunning online galleries for your photos; share photos with friends and family, let them download print-quality images, and even allow them to add their own photos
Store and access files from anywhere using MobileMe iDisk; share files that are too big for email by automatically sending a download link to recipients
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty good deal
Comment: Mobile me is an interesting service if you use all the features. It does not do any one the great.. but does most of them well. Look into each feature in detail before you buy. Many of the features can be done on free sites as well or better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Everything in Sync!!!
Comment: It was a difficult transition, but everything is working great now. I like not having to enter names or calendar info more than once. The syncing features are improving on a daily basis. Being able to enter a name or date into any of my devices, and it be available on any of my other devices is a cool feature. I've had .Mac since 2001 and can honestly say that the only interruption in email service for me was during the mobileMe transition. Those interruptions are a thing of the past, and in the unlikely hood that there are more Apple will reconcile with customers like no other company. For the problems we have had thus far we were given 90 days free. Blackberry never did that with their numerous outages.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great now after rough start
Comment: Buggy at first, but everything works great now. I love how updated contacts, bookmarks and calendar changes on one device just appear on the others. This is sweet, enterprise for the rest of us!
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Summary: Working great for me now!
Comment: I was like most here when MobileMe was launched...it was a nightmare...about the worse product launch I've seen in some time, if not all time. Couldn't get email, web apps didn't load, iPhone set up would crash, etc. Apple was slow and muted to respond.
But that was then...July 11.
As of now (Aug. 11), just about everything works great for me. My email is stable and functioning. My contacts are all there. Push calendars, contacts and email works perfectly and instantly with my iPhone, including my Entourage/Exchange items. Syncing between my office desktop and personal laptop is flawless (which by the way, what's the big gripe about a 15 minute interval between PC syncs?! When is it critical for you to have synced information on 2 or more computers within 15 minutes?!).
There are definitely things that need improving like the dual listings on Exchange/iCal-Contacts entries on the iPhone; the ability to have shared calendars (which right now is limited to CalDAV server solutions like Mac OS X Server); better photo editing/sharing tools on the Gallery; and updates for Backup or another file backup solution to better integrate w/ MobileMe, especially for the Family Pack members.
Anyway, I'd say give MobileMe a shot now. Lord knows, there have been plenty of other software releases that have had mountains of problems at launch (Vista, Leopard, Lotus, etc.) It definitely does not have a quarter of the issues it had at launch and really has become quite a nice replacement for us previous .Mac users. I find it to be an excellent solution for mobile users, especially those with iPhones and/or Macs.
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Summary: Love it!
Comment: Just a little history about me and my use of the software. I was a .mac user prior to mobile me. I switched over from pc about a year ago and have enjoyed the transition. I really like not being asked to fix everyone else's pcs any longer because they are tired of me saying, "Yeah, I don't have that problem on my mac."
Now the review. What is with all of the hating of this product? I love it. It pushes to my ipod touch, it works well on all of my computers. I do not understand why people are still griping. Did the roll out of this new product go smoothly? No, not in the least but all is well now. It was a rocky transition but Vista is still in transition nearly two years after a roll out.
For those unluckly 2% that had real mobileme problems, yes, you had it rough for a few days but the rest of us were mostly mad because it did not get started until a day or so after we expected.
Benefits
The push feature on email, address book, and calendar are great. I can make a change on my ipod touch (or iphone) and my home computer in another country is updated.
As an added benefit I really like how everything flows together. I realize that I can publish my pictures on another site but I like how iPhoto integrates into my online gallery. I realize that I can publish videos to any site but I like how iMovie integrates to my gallery.
Some have said that all of these features in mobile me can be found in other places. Most of the online features are available but they are not integrated, they are unreliable, and who wants all of the advertisements? I had been using these work arounds prior to .mac and now mobileme... it is worth the $112 or so that mobileme family pack costs to not have to deal with the other services.
After using the service for a few weeks, I upgraded to the family plan so that my wife could use it as well. She loves it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Maybe you have a computer at home, one at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. And it can be hard to keep them all up to date. But now there's MobileMe. Wherever you are, your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC are always current and always in sync. And with a suite of elegant new web applications, you can access your data from anywhere.
Imagine running beautifully designed, easy-to-use Apple applications on your PC. At me.com, you can check your email, manage your contacts and calendar, share photos, and store documents. The applications are so intuitive and clutter free that me.com could become your new desktop. On a PC, MobileMe works seamlessly with the applications you use every day. You can use Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Contacts on XP or Vista. MobileMe automatically pushes your email, contacts, and calendars ? and even your Safari or Internet Explorer bookmarks ? to your other computers, iPhone, and iPod touch. If you have more than one PC, use MobileMe to keep email, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks the same on all of them. If you have a Mac and a PC, they can share the same information. MobileMe will keep your computers, iPhone, and iPod touch in sync and up to date. Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.
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