I haven't gotten this email yet, though a cow-orker has received his. I also haven't received the extension, though I'm sure it's coming.

Most interesting is the discussion of the term "push":

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Another snag we have run into is our use of the word "push" in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe "cloud," changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the cloud and your other devices. So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word "push" until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too.

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jimothy wrote:
There's speculation on the Interwebs that this means push is coming to Mac soon, but I expect it won't be here before Snow Leopard, as, if I'm not mistaken, push email has already been mentioned as a feature of that release.

I look forward to being proven incorrect, however.

iCal at least does a pesudo push of data for published calendars. Whenever I update a calendar that is published to .Mac (and, from what I've read, this is still a .Mac legacy service) it does an instant sync.

So, if I make a change in iCal, the published calendar on the web at calendar.mac.com reflects the change pretty much instantly. The MobileMe page takes an hour to reflect the change (automatic sync in Tiger is every hour and my work machine is on 10.4 still).

All that is to say that the mechanism seems to exist in iCal at the moment to "push" the data to the cloud whenever a change is made. It just seems that iCal doesn't know that MobileMe exists.

If that's the case, I don't see why we'd have to wait for Snow Leopard for a reasonable resolution.

Well that's bloody good of them.
Not just the 30 day extension, though i like that. I respect that they were up front and said publicly it didn't go well. Some other companies *cough cough* MS steadfastly insist that everything is wonderful when it?s not *cough cough* Vista.

Interesting. That checkbox is checked, and not uncheckable, for my MobileMe/.mac account, yet if I send an email to myself, it doesn't show up in Mail 'till I manually fetch it, or until the scheduled fetch runs. My iPhone, however, does get it right away.

It could be that my company's firewall is not allowing IDLE connections, as a wild guess.

What happened to the day when Apple introduced a new item and it was available today. I understand that the iPhone requires FCC approval and that is a public thing. Instead of Apple centering the introduction of MobileMe and iPhone 2.0 on the introduction of the iPhone 3G, it had been the other way around, many of the problem could have been foreseen and corrected without racing against the clock and failing. Yes, I do feel Apple failed on this one. I feel as if Apple has put together a string of failures of late. Not in the products they've introduced, but in the execution of those introductions. Apple and Steve Jobs used to be the masters in flawless product introductions when they did things their way in their time instead of racing against a clock. MobileMe done correctly and as promised (marketed) didn't need the iPhone 3G to be a success. As of today MobileMe isn't what we as Apple habitu? nor I hope Apple is satisfied with. Steve Jobs the 30 day extension is very generous but, fulfilling your promises to us Apple loyal within the next 30 days is a true apology.

My main problem with MobileMe is that my published calendars don't get pushed to MobileMe. I am hosting a blog on Leopard Server with its associated calendar. I would like to push that calendar to MobileMe so that it shows up on my iPhone. But no matter what I've tried, I can't get that calendar to be recognized even after subscribing to the calendar directly within iCal.

iWeb 2.0.3 (the latest version) and MobileMe are not playing nicely together. I just tried to update a blog on "Dot Mac" and got a "Publishing Error" in iWeb. The pages show as "not published" (red) although the web pages did appear online. But comments have been disabled for this entry (still enabled in iWeb however).

This error, along with the missing graphics that occur in iWeb previously published galleries, indicates that the MobileMe transition remains a work-in-progress.

For the record, I received the MobileMe transition email this morning. --Mike

Well, still waiting for the e-mail, but otherwise it is a nice gesture, but I think I read somewhere that they said it is all working now - iWeb doesnʼt. I mean that it doesnʼt show my site at all, but begs me to create a new one.
Other than that, MobileMe is at least much faster than dot Mac was here in Europe earlier. The web applications are now so fast (for me) that I can begin to see some reason to use such instead of desktop apps, but they lack some still. Address completion etc.
I am at least satisfied with the 30 days extension. Wondering when the mail will arrive, though...

From Apple:
I understand you still wish to use the "@mac.com" email alias for your email account and your aliases. You will still be able to use the @mac.com email suffix for at least the next 90 days. I cannot comment or make any promises for beyond that time frame. As the switch to MobileMe is tidied up, the time might change, but for now you will be able to use either @me.com or @mac.com.

myname@mac.com is all over the Internet as user IDs and mail replies. If it goes away there is no way that I can find everywhere it is. Plus @me.com doesn't cut it for enterprise use. Sending mail to my IBM and M$ colleagues is just another jab. But from me.com, how embarrassing.

Please give us an indication of where you heard that. all of Apple's communications so far about .Mac have given NO clues that the .mac addresses will go away.

You need to cite a source for that statement, and if possible, a direct link.

My iWeb-created graphics pages now show graphics that were missing after the MobileMe migration. My iWeb-created blogs now have functional comments; they were broken by the migration. Thanks for correcting these problems Apple! --Mike

I like some of the design ideas people submitted here: http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21

I guess it will eventually be hacked to work on any phone..? Will there be any hardware requirements that it will have to have?

thought i was in the android article.. sorry chaps.