I get this all the time out in public. I wonder if anyone ever comes up to him and says "you look a lot like this geek I know."
- Robert Scoble
Robert - you should try to meet him and found out! that would be neat!
- Susan Beebe
Absolutely. @Robert: Have you reached out to Hoffman? I mean, he seems a fairly interesting guy. Scobelizer interviews Philip Seymour Hoffman. You should do it.
- AJ Kohn
Are we sure they're actually two *different* people? Has anyone actually seen them in the same room at the same time?
- Sam
AJ: nope, never have reached out to him. Might be fun to do, but I'm hoping it happens organically, if it happens at all.
- Robert Scoble
Gingo's! maybe seperated at birth? There is a story here...
- wayne Mulqueen
@Robert: Organically would be nice. I'm a bit surprised fans (yours) haven't taken it upon themselves to lobby Hoffman. I'll definitely tune in for that episode.
- AJ Kohn
I totally do! Thought the EXACT same thing a fewweeks ago! Too bad they don't SOUND alike.
- Jeff McCord
from twhirl
hehe, very funny " I would KILL for... "
- wayne Mulqueen
now, i don't have an iPhone, but i imagine your time would be better spent (slaughter, prayer, or whatever your chosen method) advocating the "Ignore all Crappy Apps" option...
- idnan
@Robert: cmon, of course Steve Jobs answers your prayers: what about the holy trinity of all things Apple - the iPhone!
- Scott Jarkoff
If Jobs' answer to our prayers is the iPhone 2.0 software, then I think someone's praying in Swahili and old boy's answering in Esperanto.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Apple's Mobile Me just deleted all my Outlook calendar items. I'm getting them all back from my Google Calendar. Wild, what a crappy service. I told it to use Outlook to resolve all conflicts, too. Has this happened to anyone else? Makes me very scared to use it.
Merlin Mann reported major syncing issues on twitter today as well.
- Morgan
Happened to me twice, right from the beginning...I'm out of it.
- Nir Ben Yona
was this on your iPhone or a computer? I had that with contacts.. after research found out to delete account from iPhone and re subscribe.. then it found them all again! Let me know how you get on..
- Tom de Grunwald
from twhirl
Apple have got to do something about this. slowly, surely it's affecting loads of us. Not good.
- Tom de Grunwald
from twhirl
This is why Exchange is the defacto standard for business communications. Apple needs to do better. And I'm sure they can.
- Roberto Bonini
I was an iTools user back in the day. When that turned into .mac I paid the first year then I abandoned it. I was outraged - even then - that Apple was charging an arm and a leg for unreliable services available reliably elsewhere for free!
- Nicholas Helke
@Roberto I haven't seen anything do mail + calendar + group scheduling better than exchange. Microsoft's problem is they insist that Outlook is a part of Office when they could spin off exchange/outlook/entourage/windows mobile into a separate company and do very interesting things. And I'm a die-hard Mac user, too.
- Andrew Feinberg
WHOA!! EPIC FAIL.... damn! good thing you had synch up to Google..dang! iDelete!
- Susan Beebe
This happened with .Mac as well. I used to sync my Entourage/Exchange calender with iCal across multiple machines using .Mac. One morning I woke up and my entire Entourage/Exchange calender was empty. Had to have IT restore it from backup
- Tom Wentworth
Meh. I'm still using Exchange at this point.
- l0ckergn0me
That 1% is getting bigger. Having lost all my contacts, without a backup, I can sympathise. A week away from returning MobileMe.
- Tom Tubbs
Seems a bit harsh to go telling everyone to STOP using MobileMe, I use it through exchange and works fine. I did have an issue with the ical being corrupted last week, but tracked that down to a beta version issue with Omni Groups OmniFocus 1.1 slashing things up. Are you SURE it wasn't called by another program?
- wayne Mulqueen
I want my money back - I feel like I was scammed by Apple on this
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
wayne: if you think anyone listens to me, you got another thing coming. But if I get one person to backup his/her calendar and contacts before running it, then it'll all be worth it.
- Robert Scoble
I just don't even bother with it. I use Outlook <-> GCal <-> nuevasync.com
- Chris Ridenour
robert: guess you could look at it that way...I did as soon as I saw your post. With all the new apps coming out for the iphone at the mo, there are bound to be conflicts with other progs. Guess it is easy to stick it to Apple seeing as they have had other issues.
- wayne Mulqueen
wayne: if I were the only one having these kinds of problems, I would have kept my mouth shut. But lots of others are too. Walt Mossberg, who isn't known to do negative reviews of Apple stuff, said in his column to stay away too. So I have good company.
- Robert Scoble
why app makers don't listen to every power users?
- Pico Seno
Pico: in Apple's case its secrecy keeps it from really testing out a ton of different scenarios. My brother-in-law worked at Apple and he said he couldn't even tell his coworkers what he was working on. So, there is a culture internally which keeps them from testing stuff out with a huge number of people. I think that's why buggy junk gets into their products. Safari on my iPhone keeps crashing, too. Opening up some screens on the iPhone takes six seconds, and my battery often drains just sitting there.
- Robert Scoble
What a disaster the mobile me service has been...
- Tim FitzGerald
It is interesting how hard the core Apple fanbase is working to keep the MobileMe disaster spun in a good light. Let's be honest, if it was MS there would be no mercy here. With MS offering cloud based MS hosted exchange these days I think MobileMe is redundant for outlook users.
- Soulhuntre