@rcast1986: True, but it is free cancer, so that's not so bad, is it?

Monty

@rcast1986: sorry for the double post. but your comment made me fall to the floor in laughter.

MadColombian

I'm glad they are being more open about the problems than they have been in the past. I am still chuckling over the fact that they made fun of ActiveSync (called it Active Stink?) during the Mobile Me launch presentation. ActiveSync is not perfect, but it has been smooth sailing for me.

manoj252

@11hawkinst: I agree. But i kinda hope they dont fix it soon. I want more extensions! LOL (yes... I am a freeloader, so what)

MadColombian

It's like an extra two months of cancer.

rcast1986

Laudable.

EBone

I think Apple is handling this whole Mobile Me screw up pretty well if you ask me.

11hawkinst

Woow that sounds honest.

Mike918

Now...if only they did something like this with the iphone...then we would be in business

Cableguy44

Yea...I havnt had any problems with mine at all but I just got my email, whoo hoo

Cableguy44

@MadColombian: I do what I can :)
@Monty: This is also true. And it's from Apple -- so it's gunna be the prettiest, shiniest goddamn leukemia you've ever seen.

rcast1986

i didn't experience much problems with mobileme. but i do welcome the extra 60 days. go for it apple, make mobileme great!

kenleewrites

I wonder how many people are using MobileMe in lieu of proper push Gmail/GCal... I for one only signed up for it so I could get my Gmail contacts, mail and calendar pushed and synced with my phone. I can see the attraction to Apple of keeping people in MobileMe for a few more months for free and not releasing proper push Gmail... Get em invested then start charging. Hrm maybe I should have gone down the free online Exchange sites instead. MobileMe just seemed so much more promising and polished at the start.. ahem.. yeah.. that worked out well.

Mulefire

So, you know, theoretically you could sign up for your 30 day trial tomorrow, and get I dunno, 90 days free?

Xavoc

Did anyone notice that according to their page, the 60 day extension starts tomorrow?

Xavoc

I signed up for a trial at the release of the 3G iPhone, I currently have 90 days left and its been about 30 days or w/e since I got the account. I think Ill stick with mobile me after the trial is up.

odnet

this is awsome, i have not even had 1 problem and im getting 2 free months...sweet

jonahman2003

I definitely commend Apple for being honest and not letting BS marketing get in the way of doing what's "right"..... but man, this would be a great time for Microsoft to make a PC vs Mac commercial kicking Mobileme while it's down :P

haha.

Keebler

90 free days to slog through a buggy, unreliable service? My God, it's like beta-testing AOL 6.0!

coketown

"You are eligible if you are a MobileMe member whose account was active as of August 19, 2008 at 0:00 Pacific Daylight Time."

Like Xavoc said, you guys have 2 hours to get 90 free days of Mobile Me. Sale ends at midnight!

Eptin

I appreciate the straight dope. I've been using .mac for a couple of years and it's almost sorta starting to kind of look like it might be worth it one day.

Dear Heavenly Father, please soften the heart of Brother Jobs, yea even unto the refunding of all my $198, even though he be a new age-y mock turtleneck wearing Buddhist poseur! Amen. Oh, and please make pot legal. Amen.

mildretard

I like these extensions! Since I don't use MobileMe for mail (syncing, Web, iDisk, etc.) I havent noticed a problem.

Schalliol

What, no 'OMG Apple sux' comments? I'm elated!

The Magnificen7

Does this add on to my already-60-days-free (that I am currently only 30 days through)?

PC+Mac Coexist

yay. another 60 days of crappy mobile me. yay.

TheWTOisGOD

Am I the only one that doesn't think apple is being apple lately? The 2.0 and up software sucks (haven't upgraded to 2.0.2 hopefully it's good) and mobileme blows. My mom, who is nothing but a basic first time apple/iphone buyer is about to start strangling people because of how completely uncooperative apple has been with her. She's been asking for a simple refund of mobileme for weeks now and they won't do anything to help her, which is frustrating to say the least.

I know apple usually gets a free pass with, well, everything. But still, I think their usual superior standards of quality are dropping with that ever important marketshare. Like one of the above posters said, it's funny how apple mocked activesync (gizmodo gleefully liveblogged it) but can't get their own solution solidly working.

(written by a mac / iphone user, don't accuse me of fanboyism!)

AlexLand

Apple knows that as soon as MobileMe is 100% stable and bug free people are going to get hook on to it, Why???? Cause MobileMe is just $99 and is dirt cheap compare to others, 1 example, The cost for a 10GB, hosted Exchange plan is $24.95 per month, per mailbox from Microsoft-certified partner DNAMail, plus a $2 monthly fee for Windows Mobile or BlackBerry mobile push service, or $324 annually (the BlackBerry plan does not get mobile push calendar and contacts and incurs an additional $20 fee, for a grand annual total of $344). Despite being more than three times the retail price of MobileMe, DNAMail only offers half the storage; Apple gives MobileMe subscribers 20GB to allocate between email and iDisk use. here is a nice little graph Apple insider had put together/Users/abelfermin/Documents/mobileme-review3-chart1.jpg

snitch29

At the rate this is going why not just give it to us free until December 31st, then on Jan 1st just start charging.

Its nice that Apple is doing this but why so long they dont think mobile me will be ready until november or something; anyway thanks for the free 90 days apple.

utube2007

Instead of giving 90 free days, why not just give 3 free months? F'in Apple.

frigg

@rcast1986:

Okay that was funny. But, every company is going to drop a serious doody every now and then, it's the way it's handled that counts and I think Apple has stepped up to do their best to make things right.

sharmanova

They could give me an extra 10 years for all I care. Why give more of something that does not work????

They had their chance, I was gonna pay my $99, give it a fair try as I had used .Mac a few years back, but they failed - miserably.

Yznel

I just checked, even people in the free trial period get the 60 additional days. So in addition to the 60 days I got as a free trial I get 60 more. Honestly I was going to cancel at the end of the trial but now they have 60 more days to convince me to stay. although I'm not really sure they can.

$50 for a year and I'd sign up for push email/contacts/calender only, I just can't justify $100 for things (excluding sync) that I could get everywhere else for free.

jmckee

@Yznel: Because they want you to see it when it does work??

Xavoc

I won't be happy until I can send mail from an aliased MobileMe account from my iPhone. As of now, MobileMe does not work with my iPhone. (The unacceptable work around is to set MobileMe up as an IMAP mail server and lose the Push functionality. And this is not mentioned anywhere on the Apple sites.) Apple should either allow users to convert aliased accounts to full accounts or fix the mail app so you can send from an alias as you can on a Mac.

eyebite

Sweet! I now have 110 days left of free MobileMe. Which, by the way, has worked great for me so far. I wonder what the ratio of problems are with MobileMe based on the OS you are using. For instance, iTunes on my Dell using Windows XP does not work nearly as well as iTunes on my Mac using OSX.

willyboy

So, Apple has gotten too big for it's own britches and has experience first hand what's it like to not have full control of a department. Interesting. MS had the same problem once upon a time.

Get ready Apple lovers. You're all in for a wild ride!!!!

JEmlay