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I want to love MobileMe. I have been a .Mac subscriber for years. The unfortunately incompetent reps on the support chat keep saying it is a connection issue on my end. No, it is not. Also, this weekend, over 100 emails disappeared from my inbox spontaneously. I did not delete them. In fact, I have items in my trash folder from that morning. Apple is spread too thin. They do not have the staff to diagnose and take care of the issues. In addition, the power port on my MacBook Air that I purchased in April shorts out the power cord after a few days. After going through 4 power cords, Apple wanted to repair it. They did not actually listen to what was the problem, so the battery was replaced and everything else you could think of was done. After 3 tries, I think it might actually be fixed. I think they have so much going on that they are unable to take on repairs and service. I am still an Apple fan, but something has to give.

Agreed. For example, I have a broadband wireless account with Verizon (my contract expires October 22, 2008) that requires me to pay about $60/month for services that are practically not usable. For my trial period of two weeks in October 2006, my PC card ran about as fast as my DSL connection, perhaps on occasion a bit slower. However, once my trial period expired, the speed was reduced to something perhaps slower than dial-up. This is not an exaggeration. After perhaps 70 hours (again no exaggeration) of customer/technical support, the issues continue. I can barely send email, it takes 5-10 minutes to download a 2 minute YouTube video, if the download is even successful. The new iPhone firmware has yet to download successfully (after tying up my bandwidth for upwards of 5 hours on each occasion). Pulling up an email can take 2-3 minutes, even if it is a short email with no extraneous content. Essentially this is highway robbery. However, I would be at fault if I broke contract. Needless to say, I shall be canceling my service on October 23rd. Why would Americans put up with this?

I love it!! Except for one thing. The trackpad is on the wrong side of the keyboard. Other than that, it is perfect! Please patent it.

I meant "on" something that is functional, not "or."

Hadley, If you force yourself to use it for all of your emails for 2 weeks, I would be very surprised if you felt this way after that time. I was really annoyed by the on-screen keyboard at first, but the more I use it, the more I love it. I can type nearly as fast on the iPhone keyboard as I can on a computer. The practice was really worth it for me, and I now type medium to medium longish emails on my iPhone regularly.

I have to say that I am quite happy with the touch screen for chats and medium length emails. I find it to be responsive and not annoying. I also find that I am more likely to carry it everywhere with me (unlike with a cell phone), even around the house (I'll admit that my bedroom and office are on the third floor of my home).

Bluegirl, why is M$ to blame if your CM system crashes? pecosbill, I don't think I said he was. I meant, and I apologize for being unclear, that Windows crashes. And the CM does, too, but much of that is a result of Windows crashing.

I don't know. I recently typed a long email on my iPhone and text rather long messages, and I have to say, I prefer the virtual keyboard to an actual small keyboard with keys. The more I use my iPhone, the faster I get, and the more comfortable it gets to use it for "real" typing. Perhaps I am a minority.