[Macworld]

Post your comments for Move over .Mac., here comes MobileMe here

[aalexzander]

I hoped this very thing would happen and it did. I couldn't be more thrilled to leave the BlackBerry and my hosted Exchange / BES account. MobileMe is 20 times the storage of my hosted exchange and 1/5th the price!
Thank you Apple!!
Alex

[BenUNC]

i for one am so ready to not have to mark all messages as read on either my phone or my mac. Way to go Apple!

[gugy]

Does anybody know if MobileMe supports my own personal domain name I choose and any email that I can assign with the same domain name? I hate using the me.com or mac.com.
Thanks

[driverdan]

Currently, .Mac lets you use your own registered domain name for web sites you post to your .mac web sites. However you need iWeb, part of the Mac-only iLife suite, to publish your pages.

[driverdan]

You can buy and renew .Mac accounts via 3rd parties for less. I last renewed my account for $70, buying a .Mac box from a vendor at eBay. You get a serial number to start/renew the account, like AppleCare, which is also cheaper via 3rd party sellers.

[k2director]

Thank you, Apple, for creating a MobileMe that refuses to synch my To Dos created in your own applications, like iCal and Mail.
Thank you for essentially saying "We like to launch features and then support them only half-assed, to the detriment of our customers who were stupid enough to embrace those features in the first place."
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Let me know when amateur-hour at Apple has come to an end, and I might consider signing up for your new service.

[leicaman]

Now I wish I had an email address like look@mac.com.

[Argent]

driverdan said:

Currently, .Mac lets you use your own registered domain name for web sites you post to your .mac web sites. However you need iWeb, part of the Mac-only iLife suite, to publish your pages.

Yes, but that's only for hosting web content. What isn't clear is whether MobileMe will push email addresses that don't end in mac.com or me.com to the iPhone. If not, it's not going to be a good enough alternative to hosted Exchange for anyone who uses their own domain name for email.

[CheeseHead]

{quote}However you need iWeb, part of the Mac-only iLife suite, to publish your pages.{quote}

You can use any application you want to publish your pages. I am using BBEdit and Dreamweaver.

[Casademike]

I would like to see an answer to Argent's question about using your own (n0n-me/mac) email address. That's a real deal breaker for me. All of the mobile me stuff is quite vague on this point.

[Scott_Gardner]

Same here - I have a .mac e-mail address, but I never use it for anything. I'd really like to find out if a MobileMe account will monitor other POP3 e-mail accounts and push new messages to my iPhone/Touch.
Or at the very least, if I leave Mail running on my home computer and have it periodically check my POP accounts, will it then push new e-mails to the "cloud" and get them to my portable devices that way?

[outdo13]

RE: Personal Domain Names
You can currently have external (i.e., non dot-mac) mail appear in your dot-mac mail. Given that, the ability to have non-.me/.mac email pushed by MobileMe would seem reasonable. That said, it isn't real until Apple shows it operating.

[bpeacock22]

.Mac just never impressed me enough to make the switch from my Google apps (Gmail, GCal, etc). But when the details of how MobileMe updates will be pushed to all devices, I became very interested. Right now, it's mildly annoying to sync GCal to iCal then to iPhone. It's difficult or not available to make changes to GCal from iCal or the iPhone-based GCal page. The recent 10.5.3 update to sync Address Book to Google wasn't that great either. I had a good hour or so of cleaning up to do when I tried it.
Well then the hang up became, I really don't want a @me.com email address. But then I discovered that the free trial for .Mac was still up, so I signed up the day of the Keynote to claim an @mac.com address and now I'm just anticipating the conversion to see how it goes. But if it isn't $99/year good, then I'll be sticking with my Google apps.

Edit: reading the other posts, if they allowed third-party to be pushed, man that would be great. Best of both worlds to me--keep my Google stuff AND have it pushed to all devices....