My dearest Apple,
While I’m quite sure I singlehandedly boost your in-store and iTunes sales in the Northeast by at least a couple of percentage points every year, you probably don’t notice little old me at all. Though you may not know it, I am one of your biggest fangirls. Not big as in circus freak exhibit, but big as in “Oh, I must buy every new Apple product that comes out within a maximum of 24 hours of its release!” Just to be clear. However, fangirl status aside, there are times when I literally want to throttle your stubborn virtual neck. When I ponder my iDisk and its relative uselessness in relation to my iPhone, that is one of those times.
Let me explain. I have been a .Mac/MobileMe subscriber for about 6 years now. And I must confess that I have rarely paid the full $99 for my subscription each year, thanks to Amazon and eBay. However, you may be happy to know that I have become iPhone crazy and have more than made up for my cheapness in scouring for MobileMe deals with the number of iPhones and iPhone apps I have purchased. Anyway, my point is that I am a long-time MobileMe subscriber and an iPhone user. I love the ability to sync my contacts and calendar over-the-air between my Mac and my iPhone via MobileMe, and I’ve found my MobileMe email to be more or less reliable over the years, even through the MobileMe transition that was disastrous for some.
You recently put out the iDisk app, allowing iPhone and iPod touch users to access the contents of their iDisks while on the go. While this is nice, it is incredibly insufficient. While I can view files on my iDisk, move files to the Public folder to be shared, and email them to others, I can’t edit them or create new files on my iPhone and save them to my iDisk. Why does this frustrate me? Because I have the ability to create new documents on my iPhone (through Dataviz’s Documents to Go, or even Notes, if you want to count that) and to get them on my Mac, I have to use a special application to transfer them via Wi-Fi (or sync via iTunes for Notes, and then copy and paste the contents somewhere else if I want them to be truly useable). I have this lovely 20GB bit of storage in the cloud and I can’t even use it directly from my iPhone to save a document. Does this not sound ridiculous? Does this not boggle the mind with its insanity?
Steve – dude – I really can’t believe that you would let something like this continue. The iPhone is all about having easy, intuitive access to so much in the palm of your hand. This level of connectivity is only reinforced by the mandatory data plan required on AT&T’s network with an iPhone and its Wi-Fi connectivity. You guys make MobileMe and the iPhone. Make them work together better, please.
Forever yours,
a geeky girl
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