For a period of several hours on 11-Aug-08, both MobileMe Mail and Google’s Gmail were both inaccessible for many users, although Gmail reportedly remained accessible for those retrieving email via IMAP and a standalone email client. MobileMe’s outage was not accompanied by any acknowledgment of the problem on the status page, and after a few hours, access returned.

If Apple is going to be serious about providing a status page, they should at least put the effort into updating it promptly. We’ll see if Google provides any more explanation than Apple when the dust settles.

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