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| MobileMe Family Pack | 
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| From: Apple
Category: Software
List Price: $149.00
Buy New: $76.99
You Save: $72.01 (48%)
New (17) from $76.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 79
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Family Pack
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MB825Z/A
Model: MB825Z/A
UPC: 885909249909
EAN: 0885909249909
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Love it! August 11, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just a little history about me and my use of the software. I was a .mac user prior to mobile me. I switched over from pc about a year ago and have enjoyed the transition. I really like not being asked to fix everyone else's pcs any longer because they are tired of me saying, "Yeah, I don't have that problem on my mac."
Now the review. What is with all of the hating of this product? I love it. It pushes to my ipod touch, it works well on all of my computers. I do not understand why people are still griping. Did the roll out of this new product go smoothly? No, not in the least but all is well now. It was a rocky transition but Vista is still in transition nearly two years after a roll out.
For those unluckly 2% that had real mobileme problems, yes, you had it rough for a few days but the rest of us were mostly mad because it did not get started until a day or so after we expected.
Benefits
The push feature on email, address book, and calendar are great. I can make a change on my ipod touch (or iphone) and my home computer in another country is updated.
As an added benefit I really like how everything flows together. I realize that I can publish my pictures on another site but I like how iPhoto integrates into my online gallery. I realize that I can publish videos to any site but I like how iMovie integrates to my gallery.
Some have said that all of these features in mobile me can be found in other places. Most of the online features are available but they are not integrated, they are unreliable, and who wants all of the advertisements? I had been using these work arounds prior to .mac and now mobileme... it is worth the $112 or so that mobileme family pack costs to not have to deal with the other services.
After using the service for a few weeks, I upgraded to the family plan so that my wife could use it as well. She loves it.
 Problems still continue 8-4-2008 August 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love mac and apple products. But mobile me is a complete dud. I had .mac since 2007 and it was converted to mobile me.
I spent two hours on the phone will apple care yesterday, they got a specialist and still they could not get my account to work.
I have data lost that still has not been recovered. The web interface still is not working.
I hope this will one day be a good product, but right now it is awful. It is very frustrating that it simply doesn't work.
Too difficult to use for work place July 29, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I should have listen to all the negative reviews that have been posted everywhere and not just Amazon.com. It is easily one of the WORST product that I have ever used. It simply does not work as advertised.
Apple advertised that it works well with Outlook on PC but it never bother to tell you that if your Outlook connects to Microsoft Exchange Server, it will not sync with your Contacts and Calenders. It tells you only when you bought the package and then tell you when you are setting up. A big company like Apple could be so sneaky. I guess all the marketings are the same. Boast big deliver little.
Push emails, contacts and calenders that never push. I sent test emails, imported contacts and calenders. The following day, absolutely nothing got pushed to my iPhone. I finally gave up the following day and not bother to sync my contacts and calenders anymore.
What a waste of money!!! It is a product that is not ready for prime time yet. For all Apple fanboys, please don't tell me give Apple time to work all the bugs out because it promises a lot of features. If you charge people money, you better deliver good product instead of a piece of JUNK.
Fewer features, less reliability July 27, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've subscribed to the .Mac Family Pack for two years, was recently transitioned to MobileMe. MobileMe is a significantly lesser product than .Mac, both from the standpoint of reliability and feature set.
Other contributors have noted significant problems with MobileMe, such as not being able to use entries in the Address Book to address email, or having access to email at all for over a week (I can just now view my email via Web, but not in the OS X Mail application, which means I can't file the email locally), but what's significant to me about my Family Pack is that during the transition, the account seems to have been reclassified as "Individual." I can't find an access point to correct the error, don't know if Apple is aware of the problem, or when the issue may go to the front burner for correction. On the bright side, the subaccounts seem to still be active.
Aside from problems with the rollout, some .Mac features have changed in ways that are less user-friendly, or have been discontinued. The .Mac home page has been discontinued, which not only announced new and updated features, but also posted current system status. Status information is now several clicks away, which is far less convenient for determining if one of the services is down. A popular .Mac feature that's not available in MobileMe is iCards, which many of us enjoyed for staying in contact with friends and family. No equivalent is available in MobileMe.
If you're only now considering a subscription, the changes won't disappoint you, but I recommend waiting until ALL of the well-publicized issues are corrected before purchasing MobileMe, especially the more expensive Family Pack.
September 29, 2008 update to original comments: MobileMe email continues to have problems. When accessed via the Web (instead of through your email application, such as OS X's Mail program), MobileMe email remains painfully slow--I've taken vacations shorter than the wait time to see my Inbox or to start a message--the service continues to display cryptic error messages that may or may not correspond to the actual status of a sent message, and now, while writing a message, you can find yourself back at the Inbox while your message-in-progress disappears.
Read the subscriber posts about MobileMe in Apple Support's Web site before buying. If Apple is working to improve MobileMe, they seem to be headed in the wrong direction. Very disappointing.
A spectacular disappointment July 25, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
When I signed up for .mac, 2 years ago, it was a good service. Apart from some very short outages, it worked fine and proved to be a good and useful service.
The migration of the .mac service to MobileMe was quite exciting. The extra functionalities sounded very good, and I was looking forward to try them out. Unfortunately, and further to a bit of a rocky start - perhaps not surprising, given the complexity of the update - unspecified problems occured to one of their servers causing 1% of their users (20,000+ people?) to lose access to their email.
This situation has been going on for over 7 days now. Those affected (me included) have not heard a word from Apple, apart from a paltry two sentence acknowledgement of the problem in their support pages. We have no updates, no help from their support staff, no idea when the service might get back up, and no reassurance that our email on the server is safe.
All in all this situation has been managed in an appalling manner, and Apple should be ashamed.
Until they can guarantee that this will not happen to you, stay away from MobileMe.
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