Apple Spams iPhone Users With MobileMe Ad
Written by admin on July 28th, 2008 in gadgets.
Despite e-mail outages, inadvertent credit-card charges and web-app bugs, Apple isn’t embarrassed enough about MobileMe to resist advertising it to iPhone users.
When you plug in your iPhone, iTunes fills up its window with an advertisement offering a free 60-day MobileMe trial. Fortunately, after clicking "No Thanks" the ad doesn’t reappear every time you connect your iPhone (from my testing, at least).
It’s understandable that Apple is advertising the service this way, since MobileMe synchronizes user information with iphone among other devices. But it’s rather poor timing: You’d imagine Apple would choose to wait to fix all of MobileMe’s problems before flaunting the service in your face. Why encourage people to sign up when not everything is up and running yet? It’s like the fire department telling people they can enter a building when there’s still smoke coming from a room.
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