Dive into OS X

Everybody knows that Apple’s new push data service has failed but nobody knows what has been fixed already. Until now… Steve Jobs has asked an Apple worker to write a posting on the apple website every other day or so to let everyone know what’s happening with MobileMe.

The day we launched MobileMe, we had a lot more traffic to our servers than we anticipated, with the result that access to the web versions of the MobileMe applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk — was temporarily unavailable.

Strange, an surge in traffic at an unexpected level? With the world waiting for months for this service, what did they expect?

The team has also fixed over 70 bugs including one that was preventing MobileMe IMAP mail folders from syncing correctly between the web app and Mac OS X Mail or Outlook, plus others correcting display issues in Calendar and in general enhancing the performance of our web apps.

It looks that MobileMe launched as an unofficial beta. We don’t know the severity of all these bugs - Apple has no transparency on these kinds of issues - so it’s hard to evaluate fully and fairly. But this is not the Apple way of doing. That’s for sure.