MobileMe now live, ready for you

Hello MobileMe, goodbye .Mac (and good riddance). Apple's synchronization and web application solution for your Macs, PCs, iPod touch or iPhone is now live. Push eMail, push contacts, and push calendar and a new suite of web applications are now yours for the taking. You know, after you hand over $99 for the first year or $149 for a one-year family subscription.

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]

[eli8527 @ Jul 10th 2008 7:05AM]

I saw this right before engadget reported it!

[Tim @ Jul 10th 2008 7:07AM]

Me too, I emailed them about it!

[lu1de @ Jul 10th 2008 7:08AM]

good for you

[Ben J-Strike @ Jul 10th 2008 7:10AM]

same

[broli @ Jul 10th 2008 4:09PM]

Please people give these guys a round of....A 9 MM GUN!!!

[Chad @ Jul 10th 2008 4:17PM]

Dude, it's like they read your mind.

[HKG HELLO @ Jul 10th 2008 4:54PM]

Here is a screen shot of the interface.

http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tempimage61mp0.png

[Jay @ Jul 10th 2008 7:06AM]

Sweet...

[Snith @ Jul 10th 2008 7:16AM]

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

[BuddyBoy @ Jul 10th 2008 7:20AM]

I got that message.. but i was crazy and click the continue button anyway and got right in

[FuzzyCat @ Jul 10th 2008 7:22AM]

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)

[doink @ Jul 10th 2008 7:16AM]

10 mins and mail is still loading.......

[Chad @ Jul 10th 2008 4:22PM]

Probably uses the same technology as engadget comment system... sometimes takes like 10 mins for my comment to show up.

[vince baskerville @ Jul 10th 2008 7:24AM]

still not up for me yet.... :(

[wako @ Jul 10th 2008 7:22AM]

20GB my ass... says i have 5! >=[

[mobileme @ Jul 10th 2008 7:25AM]

On the Mobile Me website it says that it can take up to 10 days to show that you have 20GB.

[steven Haskayne @ Jul 10th 2008 7:23AM]

Its now down, still says i have 5gb and 5gb, must be buckling under pressure...

[Chad @ Jul 10th 2008 4:30PM]

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).

[larrylevine @ Jul 10th 2008 7:25AM]

Seems to be down again. :(

[Chad @ Jul 10th 2008 4:20PM]

You don't have to @ when you reply directly to the comment associated with the reply button... we assume that's who you're talking to unless otherwise noted, especially when you're the first responder. You can't be replying to anyone else in that thread.

[Ben J-Strike @ Jul 10th 2008 7:23AM]

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.

[marc @ Jul 10th 2008 7:25AM]

and down again. back to the mobileme page on apple.com

[m-arx @ Jul 10th 2008 7:26AM]

when can i sign up?

[eli8527 @ Jul 10th 2008 7:26AM]

It still is up, here is the direct link:

https://auth.apple.com/authenticate?service=DockStatus&realm=primary-me&returnURL=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tZS5jb20vd28vV2ViT2JqZWN0cy9Eb2NrU3RhdHVzLndvYS93YS90cmFtcG9saW5l&destinationUrl=/mail

[andythursby @ Jul 10th 2008 7:29AM]

that link just ends up redirecting, its still down :(

[eli8527 @ Jul 10th 2008 7:39AM]

it looks like it only works if its in your cache or maybe cookies. It still works for me even after I keep refresing.

[Paul @ Jul 10th 2008 8:40AM]

Works fine for me, too!

[Paul @ Jul 10th 2008 8:45AM]

Ahhh, Correction!
The PAGE works fine, could also activate my new account but now it´s not possible to login....

[David @ Jul 10th 2008 7:28AM]

Still not working, I almost got the calender to work though

[m-arx @ Jul 10th 2008 7:29AM]

how does the signup work? do i have to buy it through apple store?

[jonsimmons @ Jul 10th 2008 7:37AM]

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.

[Ben J-Strike @ Jul 10th 2008 7:31AM]

and now it asking me to do a software update

[James @ Jul 10th 2008 7:36AM]

Actually it is down now. Maybe some issues with the conversion?

[Chris Booth @ Jul 10th 2008 7:43AM]

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.

[Philster @ Jul 10th 2008 7:44AM]

Hmmm... me.com just pushed me back to apple.com... ?

[eli8527 @ Jul 10th 2008 7:44AM]

still works for me. probably because of cookies and stuff.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8114/mmedn7.png

[SteveJ @ Jul 10th 2008 7:49AM]

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".

[Mediapirate @ Jul 10th 2008 10:48AM]

Wow, Epic fail on Apple's part, kinda reminds me of Firefox 3.0 download fiasco.

[mam693 @ Jul 10th 2008 8:06AM]

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/

[maddope @ Jul 10th 2008 8:08AM]

yeaahhh works for me via www.mac.com (in the Netherlands).

yohooo

[Ryan Worrell @ Jul 10th 2008 8:13AM]

Me.com takes me to apple mobileme features page and mac.com still has the error message up.

[tony valentine @ Jul 10th 2008 8:11AM]

This service is temporarily unavailable.
We are currently performing scheduled maintenance.
Normal service will be restored soon.

[Ken @ Jul 10th 2008 8:15AM]

I did rather use free alternatives like Airset or Google multiple services.

[Josh @ Jul 10th 2008 8:54AM]

try this website:
https://auth.apple.com/authenticate

[Scott K. @ Jul 10th 2008 8:51AM]

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

[OfflinePK @ Jul 10th 2008 8:57AM]

I thought everything Apple makes was supposed to work perfectly?

Guess not...

[Anand T @ Jul 10th 2008 9:02AM]

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/".

[Mike @ Jul 10th 2008 9:14AM]

its back up now

[John Moffett @ Jul 10th 2008 9:15AM]

...and yet, it's not. I had it up for about 50 seconds, then it died when I tried changing pages.

[mam693 @ Jul 10th 2008 9:41AM]

It isn't for me.