 Apple Will Solve the Slow mobile.me Issue... by Starving non-US Subscribers!, 2008-06-16 - Your reactions |
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 Jun 16 2008, 10:32 AM
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 DNA, RNA, Proteins and Silicon  Group: Administrators Posts: 5,342 Joined: 24-June 06 From: Earth/Europe/France/Alsace Member No.: 4  |
Several thousand .Mac users in Europe have been struggling over the last year with slow data transfer speed, while in EU lost users have access to broadband internet (ranging from 5 to 24 Mbit/s). Our German friends from FSKLOG, reports how Apple is aiming to potentially solve this issue. If one compares the description of mobile.me in USA USA and in UK, or from any EU Apple Stores, one can easily notice that the allowed traffic per month will be limited to 100 GB in EU while US subscribers will be granted 200 GB. This is a bit weird when one considers that in USA access to high-speed internet is rather limited when compared to EU...
Last but not least, mobile.me will be priced 79 € vs. 99 USD, again a major difference when considering the exchange rate with USD... So it seems that Apple decided to solve the data speed transfer of .Mac and future mobile.me accounts in EU by limiting the amount of data to be transferred, reducing the bandwidth with USA... Is Europe again paying the aggressive pricing policy of Apple service and hardware in USA? Why is Apple not simply installing a mobile.me server center in EU to offer a much better service to local subscribers? [translation by Linathael] |
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Jun 16 2008, 12:34 PM
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1 infinite loop Group: Members Posts: 481 Joined: 12-January 07 Member No.: 597 |
QUOTE (linathael @ Jun 16 2008, 10:32 AM)  Several thousand .Mac users in Europe have been struggling over the last year with slow data transfer speed, while in EU lost users have access to broadband internet (ranging from 5 to 24 Mbit/s). Our German friends from FSKLOG, reports how Apple is aiming to potentially solve this issue. If one compares the description of mobile.me in USA USA and in UK, or from any EU Apple Stores, one can easily notice that the allowed traffic per month will be limited to 100 GB in EU while US subscribers will be granted 200 MB. This is a bit weird when one considers that in USA access to high-speed internet is rather limited when compared to EU... Last but not least, mobile.me will be priced 79 vs. 99 USD, again a major difference when considering the exchange rate with USD... So it seems that Apple decided to solve the data speed transfer of .Mac and future mobile.me accounts in EU by limiting the amount of data to be transferred, reducing the bandwidth with USA... Is Europe again paying the aggressive pricing policy of Apple service and hardware in USA? Why is Apple not simply installing a mobile.me server center in EU to offer a much better service to local subscribers? [translation by Linathael] in the meantime they seem to have dropped the bit torrent idea. Not sure if it was such a good one anyhow. |
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Jun 16 2008, 03:24 PM
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 Apple Addict Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Newcastle, UK Member No.: 39 |
QUOTE (linathael @ Jun 16 2008, 10:32 AM) Why is Apple not simply installing a mobile.me server center in EU to offer a much better service to local subscribers? My .Mac subscription runs out in early August. I'm going to use the next couple months with mobile.me to see if they've improved the service. It needs to speed up, be reliable and get a decent backup application. If it's not improved, as they've promised over the years, I will be moving. |
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