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Apple Rolling Out iCloud.com Email Addresses with iOS 6 Beta 3

zedsdead said:
@me.com has ZERO name recognition. I've had it since it came out, and live in NY. No one but Apple employees know what it is, and whenever I give it out I have to repeat it multiple times because no one believes it's real, and then I have to explain what it is.
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I am another person who agrees with this!

I remember the first time I received an email from someone with a @me.com addy (yikes)! I had no idea where this type of email address could have came from, at first I thought it had to be some sort of typo on the senders part, then I was afraid to even email them back and ask because I thought it might be one of those weird Nigerian email scam things!:p I had to actually google @me.com to figure the whole thing out.

I vote for @mac.com thats much sweeter!
 
Apple discontinued MobileMe in favor of iCloud as of June 30, although MobileMe users are still able to transition their accounts to iCloud for a limited time.

This is why I don't trust Apple services. They keep discontinuing things left and right. We need stability to get our work done. Who wants to get their business cards, stationary, brochures, ads and other media all updated just because Apple decides to churn the market with dropping a services? Not me. Buy your own domain name and don't use Apple or other providers like them. Besides, having your own domain name is more professional.
 
So i logged into the beta.icloud.com and sent an email from the new iCloud.com as a test. I sent it to my @me.com .... it ended up in my junk email folder?!?! So Apple thinks iCloud is junk?
 
When do we get the iCloud email? I have the beta but it doesn't say how to get the new email.
 
I think @icloud.com's are handed out first in first served?

There's no automatically reserving of @icloud.com's from the @me.com's so I think it you don't participate in the beta program somebody else will take your matching @me.com.
 
flyingember said:
try going to mac.com and see what they did with it...
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just takes me to apple.com



i like my me.com email, people love it they think its nice
and different,

i have a hotmail, apple id. and my me.com email.
i don't want iCloud.com
yuck, to long and to much hard work having to update and change all of my info, banks etc

merge the apple ids and iCloud accounts,
 
This is exactly the reason I never went with Apple email addresses in the first place. First it was @mac, then @me... now @iCloud... it seems it'll only keep changing.

I've had a gmail address all this time. One address -- remains the same throughout the years.

Apple email is about as unreliable as the service itself. Remember the .mac and MobileMe server downtimes? Don't forget this is a PAID-for service too! How about DUPLICATE CALENDAR EVENTS -- one of the most annoying and STILL biting my ass even with iCloud!

iCloud is still cloudy... but at least it's closer to perfection than its predecessors. Still... until Apple offers a FREE iCloud email service to AT LEAST its mac users (who paid premium for their machines), I'm not going to trust any company that demands a ransom for its users' email -- not when Google's out there giving it all away for 'free'.
 
What are you guys complaining about? They aren't "changing" your address. THey are giving you an additional one.

I still use my @mac for EVERYTHING. Why are you guys acting like you HAVE to use your @iCloud?
 
Tired of @ Changes

Can't the PR guys and gals figure out that some things should remain stable?

There was nothing wrong with @mac.com but it got changed to @me.com.

Now another change to @icloud.com.

All to what end? In my view it confuses the consumer, causes extra work for the consumer, and only seems to serve a corporate advertising policy.

And my correspondents don't like changes of my address either.

If the city changed the name of my street every 2 years, would I be happy?

I ain't changin' my address.
 
iJon said:
Great, now I have a mac.com, me.com and now icloud.com.

I already made my transition form mac.com to me.com and I'll probably leave it at that.
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No you don't. Me.com doesn't become iCloud.com. New accounts, or developers with me.com (presuamably beta testing ml) get iCloud in place of me.com.

Me.com is pretty vain anyway. Never have I used it. It's always Mac.com. Only thing better would be apple.com.
 
Svirchev said:
Can't the PR guys and gals figure out that some things should remain stable?

There was nothing wrong with @mac.com but it got changed to @me.com.

Now another change to @icloud.com.

All to what end? In my view it confuses the consumer, causes extra work for the consumer, and only seems to serve a corporate advertising policy.

And my correspondents don't like changes of my address either.

If the city changed the name of my street every 2 years, would I be happy?

I ain't changin' my address.
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Absolutely no one has EVER had to change their email address nor do they have to now, nor are you getting iCloud.com acct. your post is moot.
 
So if I understand this correctly, if I enable iCloud email for the first time right now (using iOS 5) I will be assigned an @me email address. At some unspecified point in the future (after upgrading to iOS 6), I will then be given a matching @iCloud alias? :confused:
 
I'm narcissistic??

Playing pool tonight everyone was ragging me for havin a @me.com address saying I was a narcissist!!!! Please explain that! Of course it ended in an all out brawl cause I knew they was messin with me. Thanks apple!!!
 
I think I'll stick with @me.com as long as they allow. People I know and work with still have me in their address books for both @mac and @me. It's a pain in the ass when they send out emails to everyone in their address book and I get the same message twice for the same account. I don't want them to add @icloud as well and end up getting three messages.
 
i want .mac

Cinematic said:
.me is dorky
.icloud is worse

wtf Apple, you nailed it with .Mac. . .guess that doesn't fit with the new iOS corporate focus. . .
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Stop press - new domain for email @ios.com when they finally complete the merging (read dumbing down of Mac OS).

I missed a .mac acct so have .me - I WANT .mac not .me, not .icloud nor any other domain Apple want to thrust down my throat - if it's all aliased then why can I not have .mac?:rolleyes:
 
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