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Wouldn't Google Street View provides a wider area to explore? - Nicholas Helke

When will MS come up with something new? They seem to be content with copying everything that google does. Although, I didn't have to download Silverlight, and wasn't asked to use a more 'up-to-date' browser, so I'll give them credit for that. - Paul Grav

Did you read the word Technology Preview? May be we will see more cities in future.. - Jigar Mehta

Merlin Mann reported major syncing issues on twitter today as well. - Morgan

i.addict - ''a_a@FF''

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

(holding his blackberry and treo tightly) - Andrew Feinberg

Tom: it was on Windows Vista. - Robert Scoble

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

Uninstall Mobile me: http://www.tech-linkblog.com/2008... - Paul

I am using Google Calendar and soon Exchange on the big corp. network. - Susan Beebe

Perhaps I'm lucky. I don't use Mobile Me, Exchange or Outlook. Gmail does a grand job for my needs! - Ian May

thanks. i was debating it. now i know to stay away - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

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

that you do.. - wayne Mulqueen

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

the palo alto store had a line of about 15 people when i arrived - Tim Connors from mioNews

Yuvi: I guarantee you there would be lines for it in India. Everywhere I travel there's iPhone fans. Tons of geeks in Israel, for instance, showed me theirs and there isn't even an Apple store in Israel. - Robert Scoble

Cost? If it's 200$ (Which I *highly* doubt), then you've got a huge crowd. If it's costlier than the current grey market rate (which is 'round 25k INR, ie 'round 500$) then you aren't going to get lines. Sorry, but most people earn 'bout that much amount a month, and aren't going to spend that much on a Phone. - Yuvi

Only lines at first day in Netherlands. Everything is back to normal here now. - Erno Hannink

@Robert: I beg to disagree. The iPhone simply isn't what Indians look for in a phone. There's no transferring files via bluetooth and there isn't a video camera. Both are huge factors in India. And since we don't have 3G yet and EDGE rates are prohibitively high, the iPhone as an internet device wont work. It will sell a lot but no lines here. - Rahul Das

@Rahul Das - And don't forget MMSes! - Yuvi

Robert, we have around 30,000 iPhones here in Israel without an official Apple store. As for Switzerland, Italy and some parts of France, no stocks for the next month :( - Nir Ben Yona

Rahul: I've heard all these arguments before. The thing is, when you get an iPhone you forget it doesn't do as many features as a Nokia. Why? Because it's just so fun to use for a whole raft of things. - Robert Scoble

@Scoble - doesn't work in India. We're a weird country with a weird penny-saving mentality. Atleast amongst the generation(me) - 1 - Yuvi

Wanting an iPhone, but waiting for more perfect version ;-) Scared of brick FAIL - Susan Beebe

Robert: you may be right, guess we'll have to see, when it releases here later this month (hopefully). Though I really can't imagine Indians queuing up for a phone. We just don't have a queuing up for stuff mentality. :) And Yuvi is right too. I can't pay 1000 - 1500 Rs a month for data access on a phone. - Rahul Das

You know what's really hot here right now? Korean/Chinese made *imitation* phones. Darn cheap (~100$) and they pack in lots of features. I can safely say that atleast 99% of music here is not online bought. Touch Screen phones are fun, but not if they cost $500. - Yuvi

@Rahul - Right on the money - Ever seen how we get into buses? ;) - Yuvi

In Switzerland almost all the Swisscom Shops have binders of pending reservations 7 cm thick. Apparently the demand for the 16 GB versions far surpasses the demand for the 8 GB model which apparently is what they have sufficient stocks of. - Nicholas Helke

Any in the UK? - Roberto Bonini

Apple *could* pull it off - if they do India-specific marketing (Maybe Vodafone too could pull it off - they have some of the best marketing chops in the country). But they really do need to drop the price. And no prepaid = FAIL. - Yuvi

@Yuvi: You get into buses? In Delhi that generally means getting in at the starting point or hanging out holding on to anything you can get a grip on! - Rahul Das