On: Apple Has a New Cook

[lurkinggrue]

Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors.

Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.

[robterrell → lurkinggrue]

Wait, what was wrong with the cube, aside from price? I have that is still running today.

[Evbn → robterrell]

It had infamous case cracking problems, like the white ibook did later.

[aaronbrethorst → lurkinggrue]

I thought the Cube was cool. The Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs on the other hand? ugh. http://daysofourlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/crazy-imac-des...

[Evbn → aaronbrethorst]

Obviously their massive sales numbers were unimpeded by their horrible color choice that did not affect the device function at all.

[batista → Evbn]

Unimpeded? The color choice MADE the sales.

[tshaddox → lurkinggrue]

Neither Ping nor Mobile Me replaced previous crucial functionality.

[panic → tshaddox]

MobileMe replaced .Mac, which provided crucial functionality like email. There were many fewer people affected, but the situation is similar.

[d503 → tshaddox]

E-mail is pretty crucial to me, and some MobileMe users couldn't access their mail for days.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?RSS&NewsID=2...

[pooriaazimi → tshaddox]

But iCloud (which he "blessed" and introduced at stage) replaced Mobile Me and killed iDisk (wiping a couple million web pages off the Internet), keychain-syncing, MobileMe gallery, iWork.com, ...

[jpxxx → tshaddox]

To quibble: Mobile Me was a thorough replacement for iSync.

[Evbn → jpxxx]

At a higher price.