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• It's obvious that Apple made a BIG mistake trying to launch 3G and MM on the same day. They were overwhelmed. My original iPhone died promptly after uploading the software update and was down for the count for about 6 hours of prime time daytime usage. A trip to the Apple store yielded a sympathetic staff person's comment that the servers were overloaded as the phone needs to connect to iTunes store which was swamped to complete the update. Keep trying was the mantra he told me and 2 others who managed to find him amidst the 3g frenzy.
  
  I'm also a .Mac customer and my brand new iMac couldn't seem to get the update needed to change my system preferences from a dot to a cloud (still can't). However, I was able to access mm from system prefs, just going to my .mac account took me there. My phone did manage to get in to iTunes store and I have downloaded many apps.
  
  Bottom line, and you will see this, it's worth the wait. MM is a completely different user interface and makes accessing your email, calendar, contacts, pics and files 1000 times easier than .mac ever hoped to be. Last year when I bought the iPhone it took 24 frustrating hours to get the thing to actually make a phone call. Once it worked, all was forgiven. I imagine the same thing will happen this year - but I hope Apple learns from it's mistakes and either allocates more resources to launches or staggers them (even a week would have probably made a huge difference) to a rate that they can handle.
  
  I guess they are a victim of their own success. But the products are still the best out there - and virtually flawless once they are up and running. MM will become bugger than .mac because it is revolutionary. In reply to: "MobileMe still sputtering"

  July 12, 2008

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