It's not You, it's MobileMe
Cloudscout
– July 09, 2008 07:50PM
With the memory of iTools well-faded, .Mac heads to the history books as well.
El Jeffe
– October 04, 2011 02:22PM
What a journey.
sure darn well better get to keep my email addresses!!!!
Cloudscout
– October 04, 2011 06:18PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Yeah, I've had it that long as well... but I've been migrating away from it for the last year or so because I didn't want to keep paying for MobileMe. Now it looks like I'm going to be forced to either give it up or buy Lion in order to hold onto it.
dharlow
– October 04, 2011 07:16PM
Yes your .mac address will be fine with iCloud unless there is a change in the next few weeks.
Cloudscout
– October 12, 2011 10:16AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I was tempted to buy Lion today in order to set up iCloud but now I've discovered a new irritation.
My iTunes Store account is set up with my sparby.com email address. My iTools .Mac MobileMe account is separate.
Now iCloud is supposed to integrate these two separate worlds... except it doesn't. If your iTunes account is separate from your MobileMe account, you have to continue maintaining them separately. There is no way to merge them.
Cloudscout
– October 12, 2011 10:51AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I think this highlights Apple's Forced-March mentality pretty well:
In order to use iCloud your iOS device must be running the newest version of iOS (version 5) and your Mac OS X device must be running the latest version of Mac OS X (10.7.2).
If you're on Windows, though, iCloud works as long as you have Vista or newer.
johnny k
– October 12, 2011 12:00PM
Rumor is there will be a
10.6.9 update to do iCloud.
El Jeffe
– October 12, 2011 12:54PM
What a journey.
there are mentions of the ability for Apple (support) to merge them. YMMV
John Willoughby
– October 12, 2011 02:03PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Yes, Apple is supposed to be in the process of developing a system for merging Apple ID's.
bahamut
– October 12, 2011 02:39PM
Stupid iCloud won't send me a verification e-mail (to my gmail address!) so I can't sign up.
Losing iDisk? It was the only thing I ever used besides findmyiphone. Whatever for?
Meet the new MobileMe, same as the old MobileMe.
Cloudscout
– October 12, 2011 05:14PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I just tried going through the process to move my MobileMe account to iCloud and got this message:
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Please try again later.
Due to high demand, we are unable to move your account at this time.
You can continue to use MobileMe.
Jeff Cooper
– October 12, 2011 05:16PM
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johnny k
Rumor is there will be a
10.6.9 update to do iCloud.
It would be nice, as I'd much rather stick with Snow Leopard on the iMac that manages my iTunes and iPhoto libraries. But we haven't heard anything more about Snow Leopard compatibility for iCloud since that one rumor in late August, have we?
This iMac has a fairly recent and clean install of Snow Leopard, and doesn't do much besides manage my media, so I guess it wouldn't be terribly painful to move it to Lion (don't want to say "upgrade"). I'd rather not, though.
Cloudscout
– October 12, 2011 05:19PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Okay, finally got it to go on the fourth try... except I keep getting error messages. The message dialog boxes are all iOS-style, too.
John Willoughby
– October 12, 2011 09:34PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Fun fact, not revealed in any of the FAQ's that I saw: iCloud on Windows will only sync your bookmarks to Internet Explorer. No Safari. I wonder if Safari on Windows is going away soon. But it will be a pain in the ass not being able to sync Reading List across my platforms.
bahamut
– October 13, 2011 02:25PM
Anyone think Steve kicked to avoid having to live through mobileme again? iCloud is utterly irredeemable so far.
I now have 3 mutually incompatible Apple accounts.
1 for itunes
1 for me.com
1 for purchases on the apple store / icloud
Now that icloud supercedes these but doesn't merge them, the juggling becomes ever harder. C'mon people how hard is this? Am I an unusual case? Likely. But I bet that heavy Apple ecosystem users are more likely to have more rather fewer.
iCloud does nothing interesting so far. It's a waste of Apple money. I say this as a part stakeholder in the company so it is a waste of my money.
Why can't they just do a version of google apps done right? gmail/calendar/photo/docs? that's the cloud that i use duudez.
tomierna
(Admin)
– October 13, 2011 03:45PM
Hideously Unnatural
I'm going to be eagerly awaiting some sort of merge, or at least multi-muxxed login from iCloud.
I'm in a similar bind to CS and baha - I have one account which I've been buying my content on and one which was my official me.com account. The one I buy content with is also linked to my developer account.
Sigh.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– October 13, 2011 07:54PM
Don't blame Steve for that one. I still love this quote:
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Mr. Jobs reportedly asked the assembled engineers and other MobileMe team members, “Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” When one of those employees then volunteered a satisfactory answer, Mr. Jobs followed up with, “So why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”
All the way back to iTools Apple has never had a good "online strategy".
Their strength is software and hardware - not this nebulous cloud stuff...
El Jeffe
– October 14, 2011 12:30AM
What a journey.
maybe this time they'll get their post-card strategy back on track. (tic)
John Willoughby
– October 19, 2011 12:31PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
El Jeffe
– October 19, 2011 02:50PM
What a journey.
Anything new on PING, I wonder?
That went no where fast, imo.
johnny k
– October 19, 2011 05:51PM
At least they are working on it. I'd just like to not have my main Apple ID be the former work email address I inexplicably chose.
