I Moved from Mobile Me to Google Sync

Mobile Me sounded like such a good idea.  And it was, but the implementation is disappointing, to say the least.

I’ve been using the Mobile Me sync functionality for calendars and contacts, letting it sync with Outlook as well as my iPhone.  It’s been okay, but I don’t use Outlook anymore, and the Mobile Me web interface just hasn’t caught on with me for calendaring.  It’s just too clunky.

I’ve had a Google Calendar for a long time, but I really haven’t been using it much either.  I primarily use my iPhone for calendaring.  But Google Calendar does have the functionality I want in a desktop calendar, and it does nice things like sending an email agenda every day if you want (and I do).

So long story short, I moved my calendar and contacts sync with my iPhone today away from Mobile Me to Google Sync.  It wasn’t a painless process.  I uploaded my contacts before syncing, but after the sync, I still had to do a lot of repair work.  Some numbers lost the name that went with them.  That was minor compared to the calendar issues.  The sync process wiped out most of the items on my iPhone calendar, and Mobile Me calendaring doesn’t have any way to export data.  But fortunately I was able to export from my Outlook calendar and import the data into Google Calendar, and now I’m whole.

Bottom line:  I’m glad I made the move, and think this will serve me better in the long run.   As for online storage, which is now all I use Mobile Me for, I’ll move that somewhere else as well when the current subscription term is up.