Apple’s MobileMe is Down

Apple’s MobileMe service, which provides synching between Macs, iPhones and PCs in the cloud (including mail, contacts and calendars) is down, according to Twitter reports. Reports seem to go back about 3 hours, and at $100/year for the service, customers are more than justified in voicing their frustrations on Twitter (). The MobileMe System Status page reads:

-MobileMe () members may be unable to sign in to the MobileMe Preferences Control Panel on Windows. We apologize for any inconvenience.
-MobileMe members may be unable to sign in to MobileMe in Mac OS X System Preferences. We apologize for any inconvenience.
-MobileMe members might be unable to log in to iChat. We apologize for any inconvenience.
-MobileMe members cannot access the www.me.com site. Normal service will be restored ASAP. We apologize for any inconvenience.

You might remember that MobileMe had a disastrous launch in 2008, requiring an apology. This latest outage not only dents confidence in MobileMe, but also in our increasing reliance on cloud computing.
Are you suffering amid MobileMe downtime? Let us know in the comments.
[VentureBeat also spotted the outage]

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