engadgetmobile.com - 8/20/2008
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Hopes were high that 2.0.2 would decisively crush the reception woes some iPhone 3G owners have experienced since taking delivery of their cracking beauties ; dropped calls, latching onto EDGE reception when 3G (also known as "the good stuff") is available, and general signal strength wonkiness have all plagued a select group of handsets since launch, making for a decidedly MobileMe-like user ...
iphoneatlas.com - 8/19/2008
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iphoneatlas.com —
Apple has released iPhone OS 2.0.2 with its
obligatory but unhelpful release notes indicating only “bug fixes.”...
Unfortunately, a resolution to widespread, frustrating 3G reception issues is not among those fixes. In fact, some users ...
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iPhone OS 2.0.2 Released; Fails to Fix 3G Reception ...
db.tidbits.com - 8/19/2008
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db.tidbits.com —
In email sent to MobileMe users late on
18-Aug-08, Apple announced that the company will be extending...
all accounts in the system by 60 days. Any paid or trial account that was active as of midnight on 19-Aug-08 receives two additional months. The ...
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Comparing Apple's MobileMe Contrition with Google and ...
macrumors.com - 8/24/2008
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macrumors.com —
While Apple seems to finally have a handle
on their MobileMe difficulties, it appears iPhone 3G issues...
persist despite the most recent firmware updates. The two most notable issues include 3G reception problems and iPhone application crashing. ...
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iPhone 3G Issues Persist Despite Latest Firmware
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Apple iPhone 3G 2.0.2 makes things worse apparently
Phones Review —
... I can’t make a call… I have to switch off the 3G to get any bars Things are going the wrong way!”
Another discussions poster says: “Yes I have about 15 Apps loaded and now only 8-10 work with the new 2.0.2 software.”
The thing is fixes are supposed to fix not fail, just what do Apple think they are playing at, and they should at least make sure a new upgrade doesn’t actually make things worse!
Source – iphoneatlas via mobilitysite and engadget
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iPhone firmware update woes continue
Computerworld Blogs - Macintosh & Apple —
... there are intermittent reports cropping up of broken third-party apps, too. With the 1.x line of builds having chugged along with relatively little drama for a year, here's our question: what the hell is going on? Why does 2.0, after two post-launch builds, still feel like a beta? MobileMe took the lion's share of the fall for Apple having spread itself too thin through the launch-heavy summer months, but did some of that fire-drill mentality trickle over to the breadwinner, too? more Harry McCracken concurs: How can one company be the subject of so much good news and bad ...
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MobileMe Services Remain a Dark Cloud
cultofmac.com 8/15/2008 — Yesterday we were all set to post about the MobileMe mail server crash and ask how it is new boss Eddie Cue hasn’t already fixed Apple’s troubled web services division in the week or so he’s been on the job.
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iPhone 3G will have 3G fix with September software update
iphonebuzz.com 8/17/2008 — There have been many reports as of late that show a serious problem with the iPhone 3G's reception. For starters, as many as 3% of users do not get 3G reception at all, or very poorly at best. The likely cause has been pinpointed to the Infineon ...
Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards"
arstechnica.com 8/5/2008 — In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and "not up to Apple's standards." The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to ...
Jobs: MobileMe isn’t “up to Apple’s standards”
iphonebuzz.com 8/17/2008 — With all the complaints going around about MobileMe, Steve Jobs is finally responding to the uproar. Well, to his staff, at least.
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Steve Jobs on MobileMe: the full e-mail
arstechnica.com 8/11/2008 — Ever since our report last night on an internal e-mail sent by Steve Jobs about the botched launch of MobileMe , we have received an outpouring of requests for the full text of the e-mail. Although we originally weren't comfortable publishing the ...
Amid MobileMe failures, a star is emerging
blogs.computerworld.com 8/20/2008 — MobileMe is having some serious issues, however, I see where MobileMe is going, and it is exactly what Apple should be doing.
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Apple's iPhone 2.0.2 software update didn't fix much
blogs.computerworld.com 8/20/2008 — I've had very few problems with my iPhone 2.0 and subsequent 2.01 releases. The Internet has been abuzz lately with people who are having lots of problems with it however. 2.0.2 was supposed to help alleviate these problems....it didn't.
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Apple Provides 60 Day Extension to All MobileMe Subscribers
macrumors.com 8/19/2008 — Apple has sent out emails to MobileMe subscribers tonight revealing that they are extending all MobileMe subscriber accounts by 60 additional days: We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to mak...
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