Apple's pattern of hyping services, hardware and software and then discontinuing it makes me not want to buy their new stuff. They're unreliable.
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Apple Sending Out 30-Day Reminders for MobileMe Discontinuation
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Hope so. I use iDisk's public folder regularly for sharing documents to clients. I just prefer it over dropbox.
Oh Please save my MobileMe features
Since Apple has been sending out these EOL notices my phone has been ringing off the hook from customers who are asking what they should when their iDisk, Photo Galleries, and web.me.com web sites go away. That's 8 customers in a day, within a 20 mile radius, in a Philly suburb. How many others across Appledom are in the same quandry. All customers were more than willing to pay the $99 each year for the ease of use to go from their Mac and iLife apps to web site or photo gallery. Two graphics designers used the iDisk Public folder to transmit large files to/from clients. I've suggested everyone contact Apple, even trying to contact Mr Cook since this is now in the home stretch and upper management are the only ones that can postpone the demise of those three key features.
It would be nice if these Blog sites would do a survey like the one to keep the MacPro
I don't see why they couldn't keep idisk and gallery as part of icloud.
Since Apple has been sending out these EOL notices my phone has been ringing off the hook from customers who are asking what they should when their iDisk, Photo Galleries, and web.me.com web sites go away. That's 8 customers in a day, within a 20 mile radius, in a Philly suburb. How many others across Appledom are in the same quandry. All customers were more than willing to pay the $99 each year for the ease of use to go from their Mac and iLife apps to web site or photo gallery. Two graphics designers used the iDisk Public folder to transmit large files to/from clients. I've suggested everyone contact Apple, even trying to contact Mr Cook since this is now in the home stretch and upper management are the only ones that can postpone the demise of those three key features.It would be nice if these Blog sites would do a survey like the one to keep the MacPro
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That's my personal experience down to the a tee. I was more than happy paying for MobileMe for the last 9 years or so.
What a shame. iDisk will be gone within a month with nothing to fill its place, because SkyDrive (IMHO the best cloud solution out there) doesn't work on PPC with 10.5 Leopard. Dropbox offers only 2 gigs of free space, which is nothing compared to SkyDrive with 25 gigs of space available for free. I am really going to miss you, MobileMe...
But anyway, it would be a nice touch from Apple if they added iCloud support for legacy OS, but that is obviously not gonna happen.
Dear Microsoft, give me PowerPC version of SkyDrive App, or go bankrupt!
But anyway, it would be a nice touch from Apple if they added iCloud support for legacy OS, but that is obviously not gonna happen.
Dear Microsoft, give me PowerPC version of SkyDrive App, or go bankrupt!
So, your saying that you are lazy?
iCloud is aimed at the lowest common dominator of Apple user. Almost too basic to be very useful. Worse still, applications have to be specifically developed to take advantage of it.. and developers complain about the iCloud API - not enough documentation etc.
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I prepared for this and have worked my Dropbox account up to 22.8GB of free space with minimal effort. Basically I used a free $100 Google AdWords credit and bought targeted advertisements for people searching for Dropbox which linked to my referral code. Many people will just click on the top link on Google resultseven of its an adif it links to the website they're looking for. I targeted mine at French people with an ad written in French. I had all my referrals used within a few hours. There is also a list of stuff you can do to get more space like following Dropbox on Twitter, or even just going through the introductory steps. If you complete the current DropQuest (if it's still ongoing) you can get even more free space.
So in all I only spent a couple hours to get 22.8GB for life. Not a bad deal. I find Dropbox to be quite a bit faster than iDisk. It's also great for sharing folders with clients when I'm building their website. They can save their text files with copy in there, along with any images or videos for the site. Keeps it nice and organized in a file structuremuch better than keeping track of a hundred emails.
Also remember to tweak your Dropbox upload settings in the preferences. If I remember, I think they default to half your current speed.
I'm so bummed out about this. I would have preferred to stay on 10.6, which I like much better than 10.7. But I can't live without iCloud/MobileMe syncing between my Macs and iOS devices. It feels like I'm forced to upgrade with a gun pointed at my head
And to make things even worse, Windows Vista users can use iCloud, but not 10.6 users. Wow!
And to make things even worse, Windows Vista users can use iCloud, but not 10.6 users. Wow!
Intelligent is more like it. A computer is eons better at tasks like syncing and retrieving data.
I've found that too many computer users are stuck in "Control Freak" land and resistant to letting go.
Dropbox is good for a few files but I've found that in apps that give me the choice between Dropbox sync and iCloud. The iCloud sync is faster and feels smoother.
One could say that the Graphical User Interface is aimed at the lowest common denominator user. Taking the harder path to a point doesn't make you smarter.
Just publish your iWeb sites to a folder, and to back up your iWeb (remember iWeb will continue to work even if MobileMe publishing ends) just go into your user/library/application support/iweb folder and backup the domain file.
Just to be safe I copied my entire iDisk (about 13+ GB). I believe iWeb stores the files in the 'Sites' folder of the iDisk. So back that up too.
It irritates me that the 'Calculate all sizes' option isn't working for my iDisk... I got it to work for a few folders, so my guess it's just VERY slow. And this internet connection is blazing quick. I want to calculate the file sizes of the folders on my iDisk and my backup copy to ensure I got everything. I don't want to have to individually do a "Get Info" on each one... but I guess that's what I'll have to do.
Still depressing that they won't support Snow Leopard. Some people can't upgrade to Lion either do to hardware limitations or for software compatibility.
Apple supports legacy versions of Windows (Vista) which is older than their own Snow Leopard.
Apple supports legacy versions of Windows (Vista) which is older than their own Snow Leopard.
No it doesn't. But you can make functionality too basic to be very useful. For example, iWeb. Sure it was easy to use, but the ease of use was at the expense of flexibility and functionality ( vs, say, RapidWeaver).
This is the approach Apple take with the iApps.. make them easy to use with reduce set of functionality - some times, too reduced. I see iCloud in the same light.
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That totally sucks, doesn't it?.
I'm another laggard in "upgrading" to iCloud since I'm not in a position to move away from Snow Leopard yet and certainly will not be by the end of June. To make matters worse, the notice I got yesterday from Apple confused matters even more. They say:
So if I go the mail-only route because of my Mac, what happens to contacts and calendars syncing on my iPad and iPhone? They don't explain this, even in the FAQ, which says:
Apple's worst transition, ever.
Yes you are right a computer is eons better at these tasks but unfortunately Apple isn't. After all of these years and multiple generations they still have not learned how to make a system that actually syncs and does it reliably. In my experience (and the experience of countless others judging by the posts on Apple's site) iCloud is far worse than MobileMe ever was, and it certainly not perfect. Why did Apple have to remove one of the most useful troubleshooting features of MM (force an overwrite either direction)? Now the only choice is to merge. MM removed the ability to see your bookmarks on the web (which at least allowed you to see what was in the cloud), then iCloud removed overwrite capability. Apple is going backwards fast. The only thing that I use iCloud for now is Find My iPhone.
I have seen descriptions of how to work around the incompatibility for iCal in Snow Leopard, but not for Address Book.
Then Apple offers this "mail only" option, which does not explain what happens if you have a mix of iCloud compatible and incompatible devices. Do you then lose all of the other iCloud services for compatible devices? It's awful, and entirely because Apple isn't supporting iCloud in Snow Leopard. Otherwise I'd have pushed that button a long time ago, and maybe not be totally happy but at least not totally confused and frustrated like I am now. That's what I get for being a MobileMe subscriber from day one.
Now if only apple would release new computers so that I can move all my personal stuff off of my iMac and onto this mystical computer that will support icloud... i would be happy to switch over
i would be happy to switch overI feel your pain. I was in this situation for a long time because I did not want to update my home machine to Lion, although my work machine came with Lion preinstalled. I had MobileMe working on both and on my iPhone with no real issues. Well I finally gave in and installed Lion at home so that I could change to iCloud, and now nothing works right. After much fiddling and experimentation I finally disabled everything in iCloud except for Find my iPhone, and use Google for mostly everything else. Now I have learned my lesson from all of the Apple foul-ups over the years.