Apple apologizes for MobileMe launch, extends subscriptions, removes "push" description If you're a current MobileMe user you'll know that the transition from .Mac to MobileMe didn't go exactly as Apple had planned. There were outages, syncing problems, and users were not able to login to MobileMe. Apple has apologized for the rocky transition and will be giving subscribers a 30 day extension to their MobileMe subscription.

“The .Mac to MobileMe transition was a lot rockier than we had hoped but everything is now up and running,” Apple spokesman, Bill Evans, told Macworld. “We want to apologize to our loyal customers and express our appreciation for their patience by giving all current subscribers an automatic 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription free of charge.”

Apple has also announced that they will stop using the word "push" to describe everything in MobileMe. Users quickly found out that information wasn't being automatically "pushed", but actually a delay of 15 minutes to get information synced from a computer to the cloud and then "pushed" to other devices. Changes to and from the iPhone and Web apps are immediate though. Via MacWorld .

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/16/2008 11:40:00 AM