MobileMe now live, ready for you
By Thomas Ricker 
posted July 10th 2008 2:51PM
posted July 10th 2008 2:51PM
P.S. Things are loading slowly at the moment as the service comes up.
Update: As noted in the comments, the site is now down for most people.
Update 2: It's coming up again but it's still flaky as hell. We've managed to get to our calendar, contacts, and settings but Mail is still a no, no.
Update 3: And... it's down again. Nice going.
[Thanks, Tim]
I saw this right before engadget reported it!
Me too, I emailed them about it!
good for you
same
Please people give these guys a round of....A 9 MM GUN!!!
Dude, it's like they read your mind.
Here is a screen shot of the interface.
http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tempimage61mp0.png
Sweet...
How irritating if a site blocks you because you have an 'unsupported' browser. Who cares? If the site is not working propertly I'll get another browser, but not it simply denies me access to this site. How am I now supposed to get hyped about an Apple product if I can't read what it's all about?
-- Moving on
I got that message.. but i was crazy and click the continue button anyway and got right in
If you're using firefox grab the UserAgent switcher and add this
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
to the user agents list (as an iPhone)
10 mins and mail is still loading.......
Probably uses the same technology as engadget comment system... sometimes takes like 10 mins for my comment to show up.
still not up for me yet.... :(
20GB my ass... says i have 5! >=[
On the Mobile Me website it says that it can take up to 10 days to show that you have 20GB.
Its now down, still says i have 5gb and 5gb, must be buckling under pressure...
I wonder if it is an Exchange server cluster? I mean, the mail, contacts and calendar are all features that Exchange offer... much faster to bring this to market by licensing an existing product. Not to mention, their tag line is "Exchange for the rest of us." Either that or RIM is secretly launching a DOS attack to make the service look like it can't support real business users... brilliant, but dirty (if true).
Seems to be down again. :(
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i was just logged in, but then it logged me out and now i cant even access it anymore, it just takes me back to apple.com.
it looks like they've taken the site back down again.
and down again. back to the mobileme page on apple.com
when can i sign up?
It still is up, here is the direct link:
https://auth.apple.com/authenticate?service=DockStatus&realm=primary-me&returnURL=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tZS5jb20vd28vV2ViT2JqZWN0cy9Eb2NrU3RhdHVzLndvYS93YS90cmFtcG9saW5l&destinationUrl=/mail
that link just ends up redirecting, its still down :(
it looks like it only works if its in your cache or maybe cookies. It still works for me even after I keep refresing.
Works fine for me, too!
Ahhh, Correction!
The PAGE works fine, could also activate my new account but now it´s not possible to login....
Still not working, I almost got the calender to work though
how does the signup work? do i have to buy it through apple store?
Curse you, international DNS! For me (U.K.), www.me.com is still redirecting to www.apple.com/mobileme. Even if I use the above link to get to the login page, it's still redirecting me when i log in.
and now it asking me to do a software update
Actually it is down now. Maybe some issues with the conversion?
In the UK too! Was pushed the software update which installed no problem. Direct link brings up login page but redirects to spash page when you try to log in.
Hmmm... me.com just pushed me back to apple.com... ?
still works for me. probably because of cookies and stuff.
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8114/mmedn7.png
All I get is the mobileme info page. The service doesn't appear to be up here yet (US). Or perhaps they took it back down. Meanwhile, mac.com is "temporarily unavailable".
Wow, Epic fail on Apple's part, kinda reminds me of Firefox 3.0 download fiasco.
From .Mac Support:
"The maintenance window has been extended. We are working hard to make MobileMe available as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience."
http://www.apple.com/support/dotmac/
yeaahhh works for me via www.mac.com (in the Netherlands).
yohooo
Me.com takes me to apple mobileme features page and mac.com still has the error message up.
This service is temporarily unavailable.
We are currently performing scheduled maintenance.
Normal service will be restored soon.
I did rather use free alternatives like Airset or Google multiple services.
try this website:
https://auth.apple.com/authenticate
That script "Me" is giving me flashbacks of Windows Me, and we can remember how well *that* one did.
Besides: 'Me,' at least its sound, has been well-ingrained and identified into the Nintendo culture
I thought everything Apple makes was supposed to work perfectly?
Guess not...
The link Josh provided "https://auth.apple.com/authenticate", worked for me in Mozilla browser, and showed up with Mobileme logon screen, and then it redirected to "http://www.apple.com/mobileme/".
its back up now
...and yet, it's not. I had it up for about 50 seconds, then it died when I tried changing pages.
It isn't for me.