The Unofficial Apple Weblog is a great place to stay absolutely current on absolutely everything about Apple -- if you can put up with a bit of cheerleading, that is. Only occasionally do the site's bloggers acknowledge the shortcomings of anything coming out of Cupertino. (Posts like this one, on Steve Jobs's health, are more often the case, and I just prefer my news to err on the side of skepticism.)

That tendency makes one of today's posts, "MobileMe Renewal: Yes or No?" all the more remarkable. It's a frank list of pros and cons about Apple's cloud computing service, similar to a recent item of mine. When even the true believers at TUAW start to waver, you know the product in question really is spotty.

I emailed Dave Caolo, one of the lead TUAW bloggers, for his thoughts. He writes:

Yes, you've hit an area of contention among Apple customers. I've been a user since its free, "iTools" incarnation. It's grown by leaps and bounds since then, but today there are competing services that offer very similar features for less money (or free), or superior services for only sightly more. ...

It's easy to see why you'd dismiss the service outright when a fanboy like me starts complaining. The truth is, I don't outright dislike MobileMe. Instead, I'm disappointed that it's not what it could be.