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Renee Oricchio

Apple's Troubled MobileMe

 

In the two weeks since the launch of the new iPhone 3G, there's been a fly in the ointment.

Apple's MobileMe service that keeps the e-mail flowing to those iPhones hasn't been flowing so well. Outages have been spotty affecting pockets of users here and there. Without a major e-mail blackout, it has been enough to worry users and shake their confidence in the service's stability right now.

So much so, Apple has set up a MobileMe status blog to keep customers informed about what's going on regarding recent outages. Apparantly the blog came as direct order from Jobs himself requesting daily updates until MobileMe is less rickety.

Renee Oricchio is a technology writer and former supervising news producer for CNN Financial News. She has been covering the computer industry since 1987. @oricchio