1110consulting

after a rough and tumble couple of months, apple has again extended mobileme subscribers subscription for another 60 days. anyone with an account or part of a family account will see their expiration date extend out another 2 months!

apple appears to be doing it right. they are learning and understanding their costs to make this right is minimal, the brand is suffering, the service is a joke. with some good PR, some “perks” people may begin to decide this is not a bad solution after all.

i hope so. apple has admitted, this is not as easy as we thought and maybe that will provide them (and others) some reason for pause to help us all not experience the issues mobileme experienced on july 11!

it appears as if apple has finally got the mobileme issues behind them and they are barreling forward with improving and creating a more robust and stable environment.

a few notes. i have been working with it and though not as snappy as exchange support, the last updates i have done to calendars, notes (within iCal), and addresses have appeared in my iPhone within 30 minutes.

now a new article comes along and adds some nice warm fuzzies to many users of mobileme - security of the data that is passing from your mac to the cloud and then to the iPhone.

from appleinsider, there is discussion about how what apple is doing with their security is cutting edge and is expected to be standard in the coming years.

interested, take a read.

i keep going back and forth about keeping my data “in the cloud“… i have been using gmail A LOT over the last months/years. it has become the way i frequently communicate with family, friends and clients.

here is the rub - in it’s “proper” format it is only available while you are online so if your internet is down, if google goes down (hey, it happened again last night for a couple of hours) or something gets “wonky”.

i have been keeping backups and files online with mozy and dropbox.com. if either of these services was unavailable for an extended period of time when i needed them - i would be up a creek!

do you trust “the cloud”? check out this article too from lifehacker and let us know what you think…