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- iPod Touch Software Upgrade Finally Available
That’s right, you plug in your iPod and hit the update button. If you have been obsessively punching update only to be frustrated all day, now is the time to stay up much later than you had planned and play. Enjoy.
Переслать - A first look at MobileMe's web apps
It’s been a bit of a rocky start for MobileMe’s launch. First, the launch window was pushed back two hours. Then once MobileMe was launched, it was taken offline repeatedly (Server overload? Some last-minute bug fixing? Who knows). And when it was up, the Mail web app still wasn’t working. Finally, this morning it appears that systems are go. Uh, mostly. But at any rate, MobileMe is here. How do the web apps stack up? Let’s take a look.
All the MobileMe web apps share quite a few things in common. For one, they all look consistent, and they’re downright beautiful. For another, each seems to be pretty dang full-featured as far as web apps go (drag-and-drop, anyone). And of course, they behave much like Apple’s desktop applications. If you know how to use the Finder, Mail, iCal, Address Book, and iPhoto, you already know how to use MobileMe’s web apps.
Features like drag and drop are implemented throughout each of the web apps. Take, for example, the Contacts app. You can add a contact card to your address book, create a group, and drag and drop an address card to a group. I don’t think I’ve ever seen drag-and-drop implemented in a web app.
(more…)Переслать - Most problematic launch in Apple history?
The past two days were supposed to be one of the biggest launches in Apple history in terms of the number of big products being released. Unfortunately the launch has been anything but smooth.
Four different products were scheduled to be launched in the past 2 days: MobileMe, App Store, 3G iPhone, and an update to iPod Touch software. Three of those four products have had noticeable setbacks.
MobileMe
Apple’s replacement for their .Mac service, MobileMe, was set to launch yesterday. Not only did the launch not go smoothly yesterday, it’s still not going today. 36 hours later, Apple has the following message up:
The MobileMe transition is underway but is taking longer than expected. While core services such as desktop mail, iDisk and sync are available, the new MobileMe web applications are not yet online. Thank you for your patience as we complete the upgrade.
All of the services that previous .Mac users had have been unavailable for the majority of the past 36 hours or so.
iPod Touch Update
The new software for the iPod Touch is still on target for being released today, but the update process has been subpar to say the least. Users (myself included) see there is an update for their iPod in iTunes but when they proceed with the upgrade process an error message is displayed saying the iTunes store link can’t be accessed. I personally have had iTunes switch back and forth about a dozen times between saying there is and there isn’t an update for my iPod Touch.
Apparently server issues are to blame for this.
3G iPhone
The same server issues that are plaguing the iPod Touch upgrade also seem to be causing issues with some 3G iPhone activations. According to Macrumors, some Apple stores are just sending people home to activate their new iPhones because of the issues.
Now, let’s put somethings in perspective here. I would say of these three issues, the MobileMe one is really the only massive fail. The iPod Touch and 3G iPhone issues are more of a nasty inconvenience than anything (and we’re still only a few hours in to their launches).
To me it just feels like Apple bit off a bit more than they could chew and the consequence of that is their usual seamless user experience is getting hit hard.
Have any of these issues affected you? What has your experience been with these updates in the past couple of days?
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