Acknowledging continuing problems with its successor to .Mac, Apple sent another note of apology to subscribers tonight. We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition [...]

MobileMe customers are getting a note from Apple regarding the shaky transition to MobileMe services. As an apology for the transition trouble, the company is extending all MobileMe subscriptions by one month. I love the straightforwardness of this line, the second sentence in the letter: “Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we expected.” The [...]

After finally getting my iPhone re-activated (thanks to the free WiFi at the Livingston, NJ public library), I spent much of yesterday examining the new features of iPhone 2.0 and happily downloading apps from the App Store. The new iPhone OS is impressive, full of wonderfully polished touches and new features. One that I didn’t know [...]

It's starting out as a day of fits and starts for Apple's new mobile computing-related releases. The company's Mac.com service went down last night, as scheduled and it's replacement, MobileMe, has poked its virtual head up a few times, but was not up as of this writing. Also out: iTunes 7.7, which enables the Apps Store, and the iPhone 2.0 updater -- but not officially. (Don't worry, we'll tell you where you can find it.)

Apple’s been mum about the rumors that the next version of Mac OS X — Snow Leopard — will not support PowerPC machines, but the webpage describing the new OS may hold a clue: Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable [...]

Maybe the application demos dragged on a little longer than they could have, but there was a lot to like about yesterday's WWDC Keynote: the iPhone 2.0 software looks great, from third-party apps to MobileMe support to improvements in iCal; and the new iPhone 3G is impressive, too. But the best news to me was the fact that there was nothing that made me want to trade in my old iPhone.

Apple has posted a FAQs page on its transition from .Mac to the new MobileMe service it announced at WWDC. I'll just cover a few of the more burning questions I've seen.

For those of you who weren’t reading the liveblogging of Apple’s WWDC Keynote, the company unveiled both its new software and hardware for the iPhone. iPhone 2.0–the next-generation of the mobile device’s operating system, will be available in “early July,” the company announced. The new phone itself got a more specific due date: July 11th. The [...]

The latest installment of MacJury went live on Friday. In it, host Chuck Joiner and a panel including Jean MacDonald of SmileOnMyMac, John Moltz of Crazy Apple Rumors and Macworld, Jeff Gamet of The Mac Observer and yours truly pontificate about what we expect to see and what we’d like to see announced at this [...]

Well, at least now we know Gene Steinberg is a fan of MacJury. Also interesting that he doesn’t even address his premise until the 13th paragraph of a 15-paragraph article.