Apple’s Friday launch of MobileMe was not what one could call a perfectly successful event. Numerous users could not login while others, after managing to get past the first bumps, could not get their gadgets to sync properly.

Following this slow start, on Wednesday, Apple acknowledged all the issues and tried to get MobileMe subscribers to understand that everything in the company’s power has been done in order to correct the problems.

Bill Evans, an Apple spokesman, told Macworld that the .Mac to MobileMe transition was indeed a lot rockier than company officials had expected but also that now, everything has been taken care of.

Now that things are "up and running," users can finally get their hands on a wider series of applications, including addressbook, calendar, web-based email, photo gallery and storage capabilities. The new service is expected to seriously enlarge Apple’s audience, as the new enclosed features (Push syncing, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support) should come in quite handy to most users.

Today, MobileMe subscribers received an email from Apple in which the company informed everyone that the situation has been sorted out.

Those who had previously registered to .Mac have had their accounts automatically upgraded to the new MobileMe; new subscribers have to pay $99 for a twelve-month plan. However, because of the problematic start, the company said it would offer a free 30-day extension for the service.

MobileMe also brought along the deletion of several .Mac features that proved to be less popular than others. Such features were iCards and Web Bookmarks.