Around 1:00 PM Pacific time on Sunday, Apple’s MobileMe suite of cloud applications went offline. Apple hasn’t responded yet to a request for details, but the volume of Twitter updates in different languages suggests this isn’t a small outage. MobileMe, for which Apple charges $99 per year, grew from the company’s .Mac (pronounced “dot-mac”) services. Usually it works — I use it daily — but MobileMe got off to a bad start last year with frequent outages. So much so that even Apple fan Walt Mossberg declared it “too flawed to be reliable.” MobileMe beats Google Apps in some ways, most notably its browser-based replications of the mail, calendar and contact apps built into Apple computers. But for a hundred bucks a year in 2010, shouldn’t it be bulletproof?
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