Apple Takes Control of iCloud.com - Page 2

arn · Jun 1, 2011, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by KnightWRX

Just the domain. It's all described in the summary of the article. The owners of the domain, Xcerion AB simply renamed their service CloudMe.com.

Ya, but renaming their service was likely why it cost them $4.5 million. I mean imagine how much of a hit it would be to have to rename your business.

arn

drumrobot · Jun 1, 2011, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by backinblack875

wait so icloud the company was purchased for 4.5 mil?? or just domain?

Just the domain (unless I'm missing something).

On a side note, I decided to go to icloud.com... finally found a way to get documents onto iWork for iPad for free and sync them with other devices! (Dropdav did this as well, but it's no longer free)

backinblack875 · Jun 1, 2011, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KnightWRX

Just the domain. It's all described in the summary of the article. The owners of the domain, Xcerion AB simply renamed their service CloudMe.com.

ah, thanks.

KnightWRX · Jun 1, 2011, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by arn

Ya, but renaming their service was likely why it cost them $4.5 million. I mean imagine how much of a hit it would be to have to rename your business.

arn

$4.5 million is actually quite cheap when you think about it. If someone asked me to rebrand my entire operation, you can bet I'd ask for at least 2-3 years worth of revenue to help stem the confusion to my users and the bad will the whole thing could generate.

bpd115 · Jun 1, 2011, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by iDisk

Anyone tried to call that 570-708-8780 number? I believe the endeavor media group owns it

It's the Network Solutions Call Center. I used to work there when it opened. Back when it was owned by VeriSign and we weren't forced to sell you 8 things before you got off a call.

wackymacky · Jun 1, 2011, 09:30 PM

Apple should of bought cloudme.com too.

I hate the name but its a bit like iCloud + MobileMe= CloudMe.

twoodcc · Jun 1, 2011, 09:31 PM

i wonder why they decided to tell everyone about iCloud a week early?

iRobby · Jun 1, 2011, 09:44 PM

Johnner1999 · Jun 1, 2011, 10:04 PM

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I think $4.5 million is equivalent to a rounding error - in it's bank account.

Full of Win · Jun 1, 2011, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by backinblack875

HOLY ****!! i need to start registering domain names with "i"s in front of them guessing future apple products

iTrackyou.com would be a good place to start.

caspersoong · Jun 1, 2011, 10:11 PM

Okay, wondering why Apple didn't do this on the day of WWDC.

Johnner1999 · Jun 1, 2011, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by caspersoong

Okay, wondering why Apple didn't do this on the day of WWDC.

Ditto - something has to be up...

millerb7 · Jun 1, 2011, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Apple OC

Mark Cuban sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for 4 Billion dollars

No, he sold the company. The highest selling "domain only" is currently sex.com at 13 million, which the article states.

AlligatorBloodz · Jun 1, 2011, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by neko girl

This:
Image

I am pretty sure that cloud of smoke is flicking off John Cusack

ArchaicRevival · Jun 1, 2011, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by millerb7

No, he sold the company. The highest selling "domain only" is currently sex.com at 13 million, which the article states.

You actually read the entire article?

Kudos, my friend

strausd · Jun 1, 2011, 10:23 PM

Since this "iCloud" is rumored to allow users to store their music in the cloud and give access to your songs using your mobile device's internet connection, can we expect a web based iTunes? I can see this being extremely useful to listen to music on my work computer where I do not store my music on.

japanime · Jun 1, 2011, 10:38 PM

As a longtime Mobile Me user (I've been using the service since the free "iTools" days), I'm a bit concerned that this new iCloud service will have features (the music locker, for instance) that are only available to residents of the United States. I hope that's not the case, but the way the music and motion picture industries work, it wouldn't surprise me.

Keeping my fingers crossed that Apple has lined up worldwide rights.

RastaLulz · Jun 1, 2011, 11:01 PM

$4,500,000?!?!?!

/registers every word in the dictionary with the letter "i" infront of it

ridley182 · Jun 1, 2011, 11:01 PM

This is obviously the reason why they announced iCloud so early. There's no way this would have gone unnoticed.

arn · Jun 1, 2011, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by caspersoong

Okay, wondering why Apple didn't do this on the day of WWDC.

Changing the DNS (which they haven't done yet) can take days to propagate. It's not like you can do it at the last second and expect people to be able to hit the site.

And they can't change the DNS without having ownership of the domain (which they do now).

arn

iRobby · Jun 1, 2011, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by japanime

As a longtime Mobile Me user (I've been using the service since the free "iTools" days), I'm a bit concerned that this new iCloud service will have features (the music locker, for instance) that are only available to residents of the United States. I hope that's not the case, but the way the music and motion picture industries work, it wouldn't surprise me.

Keeping my fingers crossed that Apple has lined up worldwide rights.

Apple Files for 'iCloud' Trademark in Europe

WissMAN · 11:28 PM

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I would pay $99 a year to have cloud backups and streaming movies, music and documents. Here's hoping I'm right.

(free would be better but that would quickly devalue box.com and all the others like box.)

cvaldes · Jun 1, 2011, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RastaLulz

$4,500,000?!?!?!

Yeah, the price of a 2BR/2BA in Woodside. With one carport.

AidenShaw · Jun 1, 2011, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cvaldes

Yeah, the price of a 2BR/2BA in Woodside. With one carport.

Don't you just love Bay Area real estate?

There was a wonderful ad in the Mercury News a few years ago.

Quote:

You always dreamed of owning a million dollar home.

...You just expected it to be more than 900 square feet.

cara0910 · Jun 2, 2011, 12:13 AM

Got my invite to Google Music today. I really hope Apple can bring it on Monday

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caspersoong macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2011	Okay, wondering why Apple didn't do this on the day of WWDC. __________________ New iPad (White), 32GB ; 13" MacBook Pro (Late 2011), 2.4 GHz i5 with 256 GB Crucial M4 SSD.
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japanime macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Japan	As a longtime Mobile Me user (I've been using the service since the free "iTools" days), I'm a bit concerned that this new iCloud service will have features (the music locker, for instance) that are only available to residents of the United States. I hope that's not the case, but the way the music and motion picture industries work, it wouldn't surprise me. Keeping my fingers crossed that Apple has lined up worldwide rights. __________________ Put Manga University in your pocket — get our free iPhone app!
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Johnner1999 macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2003	Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5) I think $4.5 million is equivalent to a rounding error - in it's bank account.
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strausd macrumors 68020 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas	Since this "iCloud" is rumored to allow users to store their music in the cloud and give access to your songs using your mobile device's internet connection, can we expect a web based iTunes? I can see this being extremely useful to listen to music on my work computer where I do not store my music on.
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RastaLulz macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2011	$4,500,000?!?!?! /registers every word in the dictionary with the letter "i" infront of it __________________ iPad 2 (64GB/Wi-Fi Only/White) 2011 15" MacBook Pro iPhone 4S (16GB/Black)
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ridley182 macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The OC	This is obviously the reason why they announced iCloud so early. There's no way this would have gone unnoticed.
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WissMAN macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2009	Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5) I would pay $99 a year to have cloud backups and streaming movies, music and documents. Here's hoping I'm right. (free would be better but that would quickly devalue box.com and all the others like box.) __________________ I own stuff but don't list it here. Last edited by WissMAN; Jun 1, 2011 at 11:28 PM.
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