UPDATE 2008.07.10 08:17PM: MobileMe site is back online.
UPDATE 2008.07.10 04:45PM: MobileMe site is offline again.
UPDATE 2008.07.10 04:00PM: MobileMe site is now online but .Mac site is still offline. Unfortunately the performance of me.com is so slow. MobileMe seems to be overwhelmed right now.
UPDATE 2008.07.10 03:46PM: MobileMe site is still non operational and so is .Mac site. Email for @mac.com and @me.com through POP, IMAP and SMTP are working. iDisk is online. Web Gallery is offline.
UPDATE 2008.07.10 04:20AM: MobileMe site went up briefly and then redirects to Apple.com/MobileMe.
UPDATE: www.mac.com went into maintenance mode around 9:00PM Pacific Time. POP, IMAP and SMTP for .Mac mail is still working.
Apple first scheduled MobileMe launch at 6:00PM Pacific Time on July 9th, 2008. Zero hour, Apple still had www.mac.com up and confirmed that MobileMe launch was pushed back to 8:00PM Pacific Time.
MobileMe Launch
7/9/2008, 8pm-2am PTAs part of the MobileMe launch, www.mac.com will be taken offline at 8pm PT on Wednesday, July 9th.
Members will be unable to access www.mac.com or any .Mac services during this time with the exception of .Mac Mail accessed via a desktop application, iPhone, or iPod touch.
MobileMe will be available as soon as possible during this maintenance window.
As of 8:42PM, www.mac.com is still up and there’s no sign of MobileMe service yet. It is possible that Apple encountered problems with MobileMe launch.
Its not boding well . . . Has been up twice and straight back down in the last 8 hours Servers getting hammered maybe?
What’s the big deal here? It’s not as if the iPhone is even available yet. Give it time people, stop hating on Apple. This is a very major transition to a platform that represents everything we’ve asked for, for a long time. Your impatience is boring.
Relax and think about the migration effort here.
I agree that the impatience I’ve observed on several sites is absolutely uncalled for. My .Mac email is working and my website is still accessible. As long as that remains the case, I have no problem waiting for the formal launch to be completed. I’d love to play with the new MobileMe features, but also want to make sure that everything is A-OK before having at. When it releases, it will be wonderful. Until then, I haven’t lost any info. because everything was synced before .Mac went offline, and I still have email and my site. So I’m content to sit back and wait until the release is ready.
Sigh.. there was lot of hype with SproutCore and MobileMe.. SproutCore being the next big thing next to sliced bread… All that buz for this? What were they thinking.. never seen such a crappy service.. goes well with the Gallery they put up last year..