Apple Offers 60 More Days of Free MobileMe Service

MobileMe. It could go down in Apple’s history as “Woe is me.”

MobileMe is a subscriber service that delivers push e-mail, push contacts and push calendars into the “cloud” of native applications for the iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. The goal is to keep them all synchronized, but MobileMe saw major outages and lost customer e-mails, leaving many users angry.

Even after a leadership change and promises to fix the issues, MobileMe is still plagued with problems. In

the latest chapter, Apple is offering MobileMe subscribers a 60-day extension of the service for free. The running total of giveaway usage is now up to three months for a service that is just more than a month old.


A Sketchy E-Mail

Apple sent an e-mail to users late Monday night saying it had made “many improvements” to the problematic service. The e-mail read:

“To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving […]

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