{"id":760,"date":"2008-07-28T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/760-mobileme-losing-mail.html"},"modified":"2008-07-28T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:40:03","slug":"mobileme-losing-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/760-mobileme-losing-mail.html","title":{"rendered":"MobileMe losing mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

My enthusiasm for Apple\u2019s MobileMe<\/a> is waning rapidly. A few early outages are nothing unusual for a new service; but on Friday Apple admitted losing email<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One issue we encountered was a mail outage affecting 1% of our members . . . We particularly regret to report the loss in the affected accounts of approximately 10% of the messages received between July 16 and July 18.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Losing email is truly aggravating. The worst of it is not knowing what emails you have lost. It has not happened to me for a few years; but I recall sending desperate emails to my most significant contacts along the lines of \u201cif you sent me an email yesterday please send it again.\u201d That never looks good; and of course the email you really wanted might have been from the one person you didn\u2019t think of, or had never heard from before.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be so bad, except that people still tend to assume that emails are delivered. Usually they are; but it has never been a guaranteed service, and with all that spam sloshing about messages get missed with or without Apple\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

I expect Apple will fix it and MobileMe will be fine shortly; but with this and the recent security blunder<\/a> the company\u2019s cloud efforts have been rocky recently. Perhaps I\u2019ll stick to Exchange after all.<\/p>\n

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