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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: There's No Whale, But Apple Mail is Trying to Fail

  • Clint Ecker · 1 year ago
    Check out the leaked Jobs email that came out tonight: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/...

    "Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and "not up to Apple's standards." The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch. In addition to needing more time and testing, Jobs believes that Apple should have rolled MobileMe's services out slowly instead of launching it "as a monolithic service." For example, over-the-air iPhone syncing could have gone up initially, then web apps one by one (Mail, Calendar, etc.)..."
  • marymezzo · 1 year ago
    I love Mail . . . when it works. But I have weaned myself from it and use gmail to read all of my accounts now. Over the past three years Mail has utterly failed on three different computers, at different times. The result has been the loss of thousands of e-mails and much gnashing of teeth.

    I also find that Mail is very iffy to set up. Example: had to do an erase and install of system software on my MacBook last night. Tried to set up one of my e-mail accounts on Mail today, and it never would accept the user name, password, and mail server. The data I entered were correct . . . Mail just wanted to be a pain.

    Mail is beautiful, elegant . . . and nonfunctional. No thanks--I'm sticking to gmail.

    Mary
  • James Mowery · 1 year ago
    I feel your pain. Isn't it amazing how companies make such great progressions, and yet they seem to fall flat when it comes to simple things like this? Ah, the irony!