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Apple Making Internal Use of 'iCloud' Name With Beta Software Builds?
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Funny, I'm the opposite. I migrated away from mac.com/mobileme a while back to Google, but after picking up an iPhone last year and a used 1st gen iPad this past spring, I'm more than happy to go back to a nicely integrated solution, even if that means paying for it.
Having your data living in two geographically separated locations is a good thing. Just look at Fox News or CNN at the goings on in the world will tell you this.
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i would deffo be up for icloud for $50!
it would be nice that i can back everything to my time capsule, then stream it anywhere seamlessly with icloud
i also migrated from mobileme to google, and tbh after much hesitation i really love dropbox so unless this is drastically improved over idisk and as mentioned by others - it is integrated with ios and osx i will stick with google
it would be nice that i can back everything to my time capsule, then stream it anywhere seamlessly with icloud
i also migrated from mobileme to google, and tbh after much hesitation i really love dropbox so unless this is drastically improved over idisk and as mentioned by others - it is integrated with ios and osx i will stick with google
Once Apple screws up, they go silent, they hide, or they BS their way through it with the support of their cult, Oops, I meant to say worshipers...ala Antennagate.
So who knows if they will ever get it right?
I'm not so sure, apps and music are already on there servers so its mostly user data and updates. Updating and backup could happen in the background when the device is plugged in at night.
Cloud in the idea of replacing local media storage is really stupid. Look what happened just a few days ago with Amazon's cloud service, apparently some people lost their data when the server unexpectedly crashed.
Lack of stable connections, company running your storage space (who are in the business to make money), and lack of speed seems to be nothing I want.
Lack of stable connections, company running your storage space (who are in the business to make money), and lack of speed seems to be nothing I want.
Give credit where credit is due.
After all, Microsoft did invent the UMPC and Squirting.
As I said elsewhere.
Cloud storage has to be 100% secure (they need full backups of your data)
And had to be 100% private. No-one must be able to gain access to any of your data.
If it's potentially going to lose your data, or someone can snoop in there and see your files, then who would use it?
Cloud storage has to be 100% secure (they need full backups of your data)
And had to be 100% private. No-one must be able to gain access to any of your data.
If it's potentially going to lose your data, or someone can snoop in there and see your files, then who would use it?
I call b.s. too. I have my .Mac account (and I can use .me as well), no issues with my Mac Pro/iPad/iPhone 4. My parents have .Mac still and a few of my friends, not one issue.
What is this "fix" or "work around" for those who have .Mac accounts?
Because some EBS volumes were unavailable for a few hours. You are of course much better off just keeping your data on your laptop and hoping for the best...
The Amazon outage was an outage of one service in one availability zone. Companies that properly built their apps for high availability were not affected at all. People who didn't, would have eventually been screwed no matter where they kept their servers.
Really Antenna-gate is your example? The phone went on to not only be the #1 selling phone in the world (and is still the #1 phone in at least the US) with the highest customer satisfaction ratings. Let me guess, all those people are morons or in some reality distortion field.
P.S. Dear people in charge of this forum, can you please make it easier to ignore people. I would love to just be able to right-click on maclaptop and click ignore instead of having to go into my control panel.
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My speculation:
iCloud will be the new MobileMe, and it will be either way more worth the money or become free.
I also think apple's new datacenter will come into play with this.
iCloud will be the new MobileMe, and it will be either way more worth the money or become free.
I also think apple's new datacenter will come into play with this.
$4.5 million is about 4 cent per device Apple sold last year, a lot of money still but $100 per notebook would cost Apple $1 billion a year if the pricecut didn't double the notebook sales.
I call b.s. too. I have my .Mac account (and I can use .me as well), no issues with my Mac Pro/iPad/iPhone 4. My parents have .Mac still and a few of my friends, not one issue.
What is this "fix" or "work around" for those who have .Mac accounts?
Delete and re add your mobile me/mac account on your iOS device and see what happens
I am more than happy to, in the future, be using "Cloud" systems to keep backups of my data, and allow me to access any of my data wherever I am in the world.
My 1st upload of about 1.5 Terrabytes is going to take a little while I guess.
I just would not wish to use any such service that's in any way linked to one company or it's devices, if you know what I mean.
I would want it just independent storage with no "Corporate tie ins"
Of course, I would want to be able to access my cloud data from whatever device I own now or in the future.
My 1st upload of about 1.5 Terrabytes is going to take a little while I guess.
I just would not wish to use any such service that's in any way linked to one company or it's devices, if you know what I mean.
I would want it just independent storage with no "Corporate tie ins"
Of course, I would want to be able to access my cloud data from whatever device I own now or in the future.
Really?
They couldn't have just stuck with .Mac?? I liked that name. Haha.
Except for the whole MobileMe launch debacle, I have enjoyed the .Mac/MobileMe service since 2005 (I actually had an iTools account way back when under a different user) and will use iCloud or whatever it is called when that is rolled out. I tried to quit last month (didn't have the $99), but I realized that I have grown accustomed to the syncing services, gallery, and, of course, the e-mail. One request: don't take away my @mac.com e-mail address and if it does become free I would like some of my money back (I renewed just a few weeks ago).
They couldn't have just stuck with .Mac?? I liked that name. Haha.
Except for the whole MobileMe launch debacle, I have enjoyed the .Mac/MobileMe service since 2005 (I actually had an iTools account way back when under a different user) and will use iCloud or whatever it is called when that is rolled out. I tried to quit last month (didn't have the $99), but I realized that I have grown accustomed to the syncing services, gallery, and, of course, the e-mail. One request: don't take away my @mac.com e-mail address and if it does become free I would like some of my money back (I renewed just a few weeks ago).
Would it not make financial sense for Apple not to name it anything Apple/Mac related and stick with something generic (iCloud) and make it available and usable to PC owners also?
They could make subscription money from the whole world then as opposed to only Apple customers.
They could make subscription money from the whole world then as opposed to only Apple customers.