Comments on: MobileMe - Looks good, but pricey! http://blog.putplace.com/2008/06/11/mobileme-looks-good-but-pricey/ secure, organize and share your digital life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:32:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: jdrumgoole http://blog.putplace.com/2008/06/11/mobileme-looks-good-but-pricey/#comment-203 jdrumgoole Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:13:08 +0000 http://blog.putplace.com/?p=68#comment-203 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/11/six-million-ibricks-and-growing/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/11/six-million-ibricks-and-growing/

]]> By: Brendan Lally http://blog.putplace.com/2008/06/11/mobileme-looks-good-but-pricey/#comment-180 Brendan Lally Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:58:32 +0000 http://blog.putplace.com/?p=68#comment-180 Joe, I'll lean more your way on this one. Apple do server quite a bit of traffic (from what I've seen) from .mac but all-u-can-eat with more functionality will be interesting 2c how they manage. I suspect in early months not much of an issue. If u look thru .mac forums there are some issues with occasional outages/glitches but most issues are user (learning) related. Lal Joe,
I’ll lean more your way on this one.
Apple do server quite a bit of traffic (from what I’ve seen) from .mac but all-u-can-eat with more functionality will be interesting 2c how they manage.
I suspect in early months not much of an issue.
If u look thru .mac forums there are some issues with occasional outages/glitches but most issues are user (learning) related.

Lal

]]> By: jdrumgoole http://blog.putplace.com/2008/06/11/mobileme-looks-good-but-pricey/#comment-156 jdrumgoole Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:17:11 +0000 http://blog.putplace.com/?p=68#comment-156 Hi Matt, 100,000 users acquired over the space of how many years? Now lets double that number overnight (which would be a conservative expectation given the market investment and hype) and then double it again. I think their ability to handle that kind of growth is a reasonable question to pose. I would be very pleased to see Apple succeed in this marketplace but the proof of the pudding.... You should also realise that streaming of videos is handled by a content distribution network (Akamai?). Also scalable email services existed long before .mac launched so this was a tried and tested technology. Push email, calendar and contact synchronisation is a big ask and its no accident that nobody else has offered this kind of solution to date. This stuff is hard to get right and even harder at webscale numbers i.e. hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. If they succeed they will be minted, if they fail making it a "pay to play" service from the outset will cost them dearly. Joe. Hi Matt,

100,000 users acquired over the space of how many years? Now lets double that number overnight (which would be a conservative expectation given the market investment and hype) and then double it again. I think their ability to handle that kind of growth is a reasonable question to pose.

I would be very pleased to see Apple succeed in this marketplace but the proof of the pudding….

You should also realise that streaming of videos is handled by a content distribution network (Akamai?). Also scalable email services existed long before .mac launched so this was a tried and tested technology.

Push email, calendar and contact synchronisation is a big ask and its no accident that nobody else has offered this kind of solution to date. This stuff is hard to get right and even harder at webscale numbers i.e. hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. If they succeed they will be minted, if they fail making it a “pay to play” service from the outset will cost them dearly.

Joe.

]]> By: mj http://blog.putplace.com/2008/06/11/mobileme-looks-good-but-pricey/#comment-155 mj Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:54:39 +0000 http://blog.putplace.com/?p=68#comment-155 Apple don't have a lot of experience with scaling web services? Are you on crack? They've got one of the most successful, heavily visited web stores in the world. They used to regularly stream their keynote videos. They host dozens of movie trailers on their web site. They have apps like WebObjects which were previously the defacto web application environment for BIG COMPANIES like Nortel, Citi and the Department of Defense. On the consumer side, they launched iTools (with email, online storage) in January 2000. They renamed it to .Mac and started to charge for it in July 2002. And now it's me.com. It's somewhat ironic that people would wonder if it can scale when it had 100 000 paying customers in 2002. GMail only appeared in 2004 invitation only and now is seen as the poster boy for web apps despite being open to the public since February last year. I think they'll scale it fine. Apple don’t have a lot of experience with scaling web services? Are you on crack?

They’ve got one of the most successful, heavily visited web stores in the world. They used to regularly stream their keynote videos. They host dozens of movie trailers on their web site. They have apps like WebObjects which were previously the defacto web application environment for BIG COMPANIES like Nortel, Citi and the Department of Defense.

On the consumer side, they launched iTools (with email, online storage) in January 2000. They renamed it to .Mac and started to charge for it in July 2002. And now it’s me.com. It’s somewhat ironic that people would wonder if it can scale when it had 100 000 paying customers in 2002. GMail only appeared in 2004 invitation only and now is seen as the poster boy for web apps despite being open to the public since February last year.

I think they’ll scale it fine.

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