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i don’t know if its true or not, but the marketing guys handling apple software stuff on the pc side are…. not so nice. then again, i don’t give a rats ass about pc users. fuhahahahaha

Peruchito, on July 24th, 2008 at 9:46 am

Stopbadware.org, an anti-malware advocacy group founded by Google Inc.

That’s funny, cause I’m really tired of every damn Windows app I install trying to force the Google toolbar on me.

nak, on July 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

Some PC users have been surprised to notice a “MobileMe Preferences” panel in their new version of iTunes

If only it were in iTunes. I just checked on my work laptop, and what I had understood before, I’ve now confirmed for myself; the icon is added to the Windows Control Panel. I really think Apple should know better than this, these kind of guerilla tactics will not improve their image at all among PC users (who, after all, are all potential switchers).

Eelke, on July 24th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

“Stopbadware.org, an anti-malware advocacy group founded by Google Inc.

That’s funny, cause I’m really tired of every damn Windows app I install trying to force the Google toolbar on me.”

yeah.. i tried surfing the internet on a pc once… my broswer had 20 search bars at the end of the day…

Peruchito, on July 25th, 2008 at 7:09 am

I wasn’t all that upset about getting the MobileMe widget added to my work PC - for all the bad press it’s been getting, it works pretty well on my Powerbook. But oh, my God. The PC application is seriously broken. I worked with it for hours, and after totally hosing both my calendar and contacts, I finally gave up. I have three calendars, and after the aforementioned hours (and some restores from backup) I was finally able to get two of them to sync from MobileMe to Outlook, but none of them to sync from Outlook to MobileMe. Meaning that any events created or sent to me on the PC were stuck there. The third calendar would not sync in either direction.

Reading through the support bulletin boards at Apple revealed that this wasn’t just my problem - the application is apparently not capable of syncing between MobileMe and Outlook in any sort of usable way.

I like Apple as a company and the idea of MobileMe… but holy crap - it should never have seen the light of day in this condition. Putting the widget into the control panel is a pretty minor sin compared to releasing it in such a terrible state.

Sean Peters, on July 27th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

What, no condemnation for Apple over this? Typical. If it was Microsoft doing something along those lines, I’m sure there would be all kinds of negative criticism.

David, on August 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 pm