Apple, however, has promised one thing, delivered another, added a knowledge base article indicating that things don’t work like they promised, and then silently changed their marketing copy to reflect the new reality.

I hope you’re right, and that Apple has some cool update in the works that would allow push to work like they said it would. But I find it really hard to believe that, since all of the evidence seems to point to the contrary.

My point here is that we have no patience anymore. This is the age of instant gratification. Why must we be so inpatient with our understanding as businesses work out issues? I have never seen so many people stressed out because things did not work perfectly the first day. Take a chill pill and have a beer. It will get fixed. Just remember I told you so…

So it’s not unbearable, and I’m not going to cancel my subscription over it. I just wish that Apple had either been honest initially about what MobileMe could do or implemented what they had promised.

However, if you feel that this time differential is unbearable to you, have you contacted Apple about it and asked them whether there is a reason for that delay? Or have you asked for your money back if you feel you do not receive a service worthy of your subscription?

Furthermore, I’m not just frustrated because Apple is falsely advertising MobileMe’s features; I’m frustrated because this feature, in particular, is one that I really would like to have. I’m often in situations where I need to update a contact or event moments before putting my laptop to sleep, and may not remember to manually sync before shutting the lid. MobileMe, as advertised, would mean that I’d never lose information this way; as implemented, however, MobileMe fails me in this scenario.

However, after beefing up their servers, it worked basically as promised about three months later.

Perhaps MobileMe will work as promised when Apple has time to ramp up to meet demand.

I think that this is becoming standard practice in various industries. For example, cell phone service is sold like crazy in a new market, but capacity is not built in until enough contracts have been sold to justify the expense.

Push technology means the iPhone never polls anything for MobileMe data. The iPhone could never leave standby and still receive Pushed data.

Push means MobileMe polls the iPhone when there’s an update, and only when there’s an update, and sends the data if the iPhone responds. It’s the same concept as receiving calls — the iPhone isn’t always actively seeking out incoming phone calls. It waits for the cell tower to transmit the call.

The fact that MobileMe isn’t true Push technology is another one of those “Well why the hell not?” moments, up there with MMS and video recording. Though, with this one, I’m eying AT&T as the cause. They’re not RIM; they’re not built for, and may not want to foot, the network stress of true Push technology.