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Apple Rolling Out iCloud.com Email Addresses with iOS 6 Beta 3
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Apple has said that iMessage will merge numbers and emails in iOS6. Last I heard on them merging Apple IDs it was an email from Tim Cook saying 'we're working on it". Maybe the move to iCloud emails will merge Apple IDs.
CAN'T YOU PEOPLE READ!?
You're the maybe 100th person in this forum complaining how Apple sucks and how they will leave Apple when they loose their @me.com address, despite Apple clearly stating that the @me.com addreses will NOT be removed.
Did you all get it now: YOU'LL ALL KEEP YOUR @ME.COM ADDRESSES!
Please can you at least read the article before you start commenting and ask stupid questions that are already answered in the article itself!
I won't be changing my umpteen million accounts email address... So they better let me keep @me.
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I don't think it's that stupid of a question or comment when Apple has a track record of changing BIG things without notice or remorse... I know this article says you keep your current address, but a year from now they could decide simply for marketing purposes that they don't like those other @s and discontinue them JUST for the sake of the iCloud brand.
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I don't think it's that stupid of a question or comment when Apple has a track record of changing BIG things without notice or remorse... I know this article says you keep your current address, but a year from now they could decide simply for marketing purposes that they don't like those other @s and discontinue them JUST for the sake of the iCloud brand.
Almost certainly yes.
Probably not, unless they have a major overhaul.
Indeed. We never saw active .mac users loose their .mac email addresses when MobileMe came out so why would Apple change that. It takes a ridiculously small amount of effort to maintain the old address (it's almost certainly just an extra line in their account details) and maintaining the old domain.
I give Apple a little bit of benefit of the doubt here. They are not that dumb to drop something like this (email) without giving people tons of explicit warnings. They gave people a years notice (almost) when they dropped support for iDrive. You would have to give me a damned good reason why they would kill off a simple send to stub in their account - it literally has no affect on their mail system. There is literally no reason to drop old email addresses at all - especially when Apple didn't do it to .mac.
Just give me a service that doesn't ever drop and I'll be happy.
Anyone else experiencing a complete lack of service on outgoing Apple mail servers at present?
Anyone else experiencing a complete lack of service on outgoing Apple mail servers at present?
Same here. I am stuck with a hotmail account that I don't want any more because my apple ID is my hotmail email address. I switched everything in my life over to @me.com, except my Apple ID, which won't allow me to. How ironic that Apple is the only company that won't let me change my ID to an Apple-branded email.
Considering that our division does Windows and *nix software, it doesn't help a borderline resume to see an Apple domain at the top.
If the candidate is well-qualified, it won't matter.
I want to completely move into Apples ecosystem. That's something Apple should want me to do, but they won't let me.
It's madness.[/QUOTE]
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!! YOU HIT THAT ONE RIGHT ON THE HEAD. THAT"S MY WHOLE POINT! IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY WANT ME TO HAVE A GMAIL ACCOUNT??
It's madness.[/QUOTE]
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!! YOU HIT THAT ONE RIGHT ON THE HEAD. THAT"S MY WHOLE POINT! IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY WANT ME TO HAVE A GMAIL ACCOUNT??
I'm so sick of having my old gmail as my Apple ID. I just want to use my shiny new iCloud email as my primary email. It's ridiculous getting my Apple emails in my old email. I have to forward everything from my gmail to my iCloud just so I can get the emails. I want to move into the Apple ecosystem completely, but Apple won't let me, which is insane. I can't wait until the day that I only have to use my gmail for Youtube and nothing else. (That's another thing that bothers me: Youtube forcing me to use my gmail instead of my primary email, but that's Google's fault). We need people to contact Apple and make it known that this is a high priority issue and needs to be resolved ASAP. It shouldn't be too hard to let people use their @me/@icloud email as their Apple ID. At least they give you the choice between @me and @icloud.
I can't wait until the day that I only have to use my gmail for Youtube and nothing else. (That's another thing that bothers me: Youtube forcing me to use my gmail instead of my primary email, but that's Google's fault). We need people to contact Apple and make it known that this is a high priority issue and needs to be resolved ASAP. It shouldn't be too hard to let people use their @me/@icloud email as their Apple ID. At least they give you the choice between @me and @icloud.i loged into beta.icloud.com and when i checked Alias iCloud.com was listed and it let me send from it to my gmail, but I could not reply.
I can also only send from it from the website I can not send from it on my phone or mail.app, i get a message about the server rejecting the sender when I try to email from them.
This is why I use myfirstname@myfirstnamelastname.com
I then use Google Apps to have it all in Gmail, but maintaining a professional email address.
However, if iCloud Mail gets more stable and I decide to change off of Gmail down the road, I don't have to change my email address. It's my email address for life.
Owning your own domain, YOU remain in control and can choose whatever service you want depending on what you want at that point in time.
I then use Google Apps to have it all in Gmail, but maintaining a professional email address.
However, if iCloud Mail gets more stable and I decide to change off of Gmail down the road, I don't have to change my email address. It's my email address for life.
Owning your own domain, YOU remain in control and can choose whatever service you want depending on what you want at that point in time.
I'm so sick of having my old gmail as my Apple ID. I just want to use my shiny new iCloud email as my primary email. It's ridiculous getting my Apple emails in my old email. I have to forward everything from my gmail to my iCloud just so I can get the emails. I want to move into the Apple ecosystem completely, but Apple won't let me, which is insane.
THey should be able to join accounts. I have a .Mac and an @gmail ID in iTunes. It sucks that I have to use both, but at least with the DRM free stuff now I can download all my gmail bought stuff and then I don't have to use it anymore.
They really make it a PITA to work in their ecosystem when it comes to web tools.
.mac was nice, short and respectable
.me sounds egotistical
.icloud sounds like apple using my email to advertising some new product of the year
I'd consider using apples email service if I could still use my companies domain name.
Until them, I'm stuck with gmail-based service I guess. Yay.
.me sounds egotistical
.icloud sounds like apple using my email to advertising some new product of the year
I'd consider using apples email service if I could still use my companies domain name.
Until them, I'm stuck with gmail-based service I guess. Yay.
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Such a service pretty much doesn't exist - especially in the free realm. I'm willing to bet that email services go down far more than you think - the service might be accessible overall but it may but actually getting new emails is probably less instantaneous than you might think.
Yup, I loaded iOS 6 B3 on my iPads and iPS, with 10.8 GM running on my 12-Core Mac Pro, the @icloud.com extension was available for use in addition to my @me.com (not in lieu of) - and still have my @mac.com account
.On another note, Apple should allow merging iTunes I.D.'s. It's extremely irritating to have three iTunes "accounts" that all must be verified on your Mac's and devices. It is also discouraging that only 5 systems may be authorized at a time with your accounts and can only be reset once a year. Last year I sold a MacBook Pro and forgot to de-authorize one of my accounts, which is at it's max of 5 systems in use. I cannot remove it and I have to wait to November to "refresh" it from authorization on all systems.
Bottom line, Apple's iTunes support is crap, especially without phone support.
That is a stupid reason. It should not matter at all what email service provider someone uses. The email provider they use should not have ANY bearing on whether or not they get hired.
I seriously feel bad for people who apply for work with you, as they are being judged on such petty things.
I have a problem now that since me.com came along I can send and receive from my xxxx@me.com and xxxx@mac.com address from my mac but can only send from my xxxx@me.com address on my iphone and ipad and can't send from xxxx@mac.com..it just doesn't show up as an option....does anyone else have this issue?
if icloud.com comes along maybe i will lose the ability to send from my xxxx@me.com also and just be able to send from xxxx@icloud.com
if icloud.com comes along maybe i will lose the ability to send from my xxxx@me.com also and just be able to send from xxxx@icloud.com
