I wanted to get a MobileMe account for my birthday but looks like I have to cross that out from my birthday wishlist. Especially now that I’ve read lots of news about the MobileMe being a failure. Oh why, Steve?

A great number of damage has been done. Here are some of the many status updates posted on the Apple website:

• The day we launched MobileMe, we had a lot more traffic to our servers than we anticipated, with the result that access to the web versions of the MobileMe applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk — was temporarily unavailable
• A serious problem with one of our mail servers blocked those members’ access to their MobileMe mail accounts
• We particularly regret to report the loss in the affected accounts of approximately 10% of the messages received between July 16 and July 18
• The team has also fixed over 70 bugs including one that was preventing MobileMe IMAP mail folders from syncing correctly between the web app and Mac OS X Mail or Outlook, plus others correcting display issues in Calendar and in general enhancing the performance of our web apps

I pity that Apple employee who’s posting the updates. Why don’t Steve Jobs do it himself? And again: Oh why, Steve?

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