I have heard about this happening to multiple people. And the best part is that you pay $100/year for it.... - Peter Ghosh

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

i.addict - ''alex andrek''

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 Douglass

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

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