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Apple Shuts Down MobileMe, Data Available for 'Limited Time'
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I don't know on iDisk so shan't respond, in fact I tend to agree with you on that.
What I don't understand is how imperfect iCloud is. I never have a stability issue with it, features are expanding which is cool. I accept it may not be as feature heavy as .mac or mobileme, but surely for free it's actually very feature heavy? Perhaps you can explain to me
The best you can hope for is the document synchronisation they've been showing off but I don't see anything appearing that'll allow the sharing of documents beyond your own account - we can thank the recent behaviour by the MPAA/RIAA that have put the fear of God into many service providers. I'm sure Apple would love to provide the ability to share documents, photos etc. but when you have the threat of legal action hovering over the top I have a feeling they'll wait till the whole Megaupload thing dies off before doing anything more risky.
IMHO they shouldn't have launched iCloud till it was feature complete - from what I have heard rumoured those features will arrive but apparently the way they will be delivered will be different than it was under MobileMe.
Out of curiosity, what applications aren't available on Lion yet that you require?
How is it Apple's fault that you don't read what is on the screen - that your files are being migrated across? if they're being migrated across then why the hell would the duplicate your files? it seems that you've done something stupid and now you want to blame Apple for your own mistakes. Be a man and accept you screwed up because you didn't put your brain into gear before clicking your mouse button.
Really?
I opened iPhoto today and it downloaded photos from MobileMe Gallery and, I think put them into an album which I deleted as those Galleries came from iPhoto in the first place.
I think all my photos are there.
dot mac. I will miss you.
PS. iDisk allowed webhosting for pictures in an easy, trivial way.
http://homepage.mac.com/bozola/myimage.jpg.
PS. iDisk allowed webhosting for pictures in an easy, trivial way.
http://homepage.mac.com/bozola/myimage.jpg.
Absolutely, Apple really missed an opportunity, ok so MobileMe didn't really work very well SJ knew that, but the idea was good. So they have reworked some of it into iCloud, but to make sure the two look seperate they haven't bothered to replace everything like iWeb and iDisk, meanwhile Dropbox and now Google Drive are signing up users in record numbers! What's up with Apple nowadays they seem so fixated on the blooming iPhone (as much as I love mine) nothing else gets developed! and not just software - the Mac Pro is classic example, how much would it have cost them to upgrade that machine with an Ivy Bridge Processor ..
And limited to supported applications, where as drop box, idisk et al work with ALL applications.
Apple have replaced iDisk with a very crippled implementation.
Dropbox and similar use local disk space. iDisk was its own storage and allowed one to move files off the local disk to free that space, but still have easy access to them from multiple computers.
To be fair, Apple's prompt wasn't entirely clear. Why did they need to "preserve" your photos in a separate album if you already have the original files?
What's the purpose of them telling you to download your MobileMe gallery in order to save them before the deadline if they're going to "preserve" them in a separate album for you anyway?
I'd had a friend who had his small-business site here. I warned him months ago and again 4 days ago. His site is now down; at least they have left the sites open for people who don't have a backup elsewhere.
I'm glad Apple cut the cord promptly and didn't allow any grace period.
The message should be clear: Apple has no intention of providing that functionality for iOS devices.
I'm glad Apple cut the cord promptly and didn't allow any grace period.
The message should be clear: Apple has no intention of providing that functionality for iOS devices.
I wonder how long this 'limited time' will last?
Don't know if anyone's bothered to notice, but you can still copy files into your iDisk from Mac OS X's iDisk icon in the Finder. However you can only download files from me.com's iDisk interface.
The iDisk iPhone app now errors out, and is useless.
iPhoto's handling of everything is surprisingly elegant.
Tons of now-pointless and cluttered Mobile Me references remain throughout OSX. I guess they're not going to 'magically' disappear huh? Really looks sloppy. Can anyone with the Mountain Lion builds report back that there aren't any outdated Mobile Me references?
Also on a completely different note, has anyone gotten Mountain Lion to install on slightly older Macs then recommended? I don't have quite enough saved up for the new Retina Macbook yet...
Don't know if anyone's bothered to notice, but you can still copy files into your iDisk from Mac OS X's iDisk icon in the Finder. However you can only download files from me.com's iDisk interface.
The iDisk iPhone app now errors out, and is useless.
iPhoto's handling of everything is surprisingly elegant.
Tons of now-pointless and cluttered Mobile Me references remain throughout OSX. I guess they're not going to 'magically' disappear huh? Really looks sloppy. Can anyone with the Mountain Lion builds report back that there aren't any outdated Mobile Me references?
Also on a completely different note, has anyone gotten Mountain Lion to install on slightly older Macs then recommended? I don't have quite enough saved up for the new Retina Macbook yet...
iCloud email isn't working for me at the moment.
Other than that, MobileMe did its job - it just wasn't implemented very well. It's had problems for its entire lifespan, no?
Other than that, MobileMe did its job - it just wasn't implemented very well. It's had problems for its entire lifespan, no?
Actually, Steve Job tried unsuccessfully to acquire Dropbox. If he had his way, Dropbox would replace iDisk.
That means Dropbox is the best substitute for iDisk, at least until Apple comes out with a real replacement if that ever happens.
I know Keychain Syncing is currently under wraps for a relaunch, something more akin to "1Password". I have the strong sense that NFC on the next iPhone with the "Passport" app will bring "1Password" functionality back to OS X between devices.
Also, isn't "Documents in the Cloud" supposedly going to replace iDisk with [eventual] "drag and drop" functionality via Finder and iOS?
I really wonder if that has something to to with the UpThere post on 2nd page...
Surely hope so. Cloud only makes sense if it is as versatile as you need it. I for sure would need a file system on which I can decide what and what kind I have on the cloud.
Keep on hoping...
I moved my iWeb websites over to DV Host (http://www.dvhost.com), and it works just as easily. After changing my publishing settings, I continue to press the "Publish" button in MobileMe. It literally took 10 minutes to change everything. The difference is that it now publishes to DV Host instead of MobileMe.
I think it's a good solution for us MobileMe "refugees" who want to continue using iWeb.
I would take abbreviated access to iCloud(iCal, Address Book and Mail only) for Snow Leopard in a heartbeat.
I paid for this? MobileMe
I coughed up $99x2 a year for my wife and myself for this. We had a great time uploading and sharing our photos. We did this for multiple years. Worked fine for us.
Now, my photos are no longer available. The smarter people that used the FREE services, their photos are available and will continue to be. Boy, do I feel stupid.
MobileMe is one of the lower points in Apple's history. They have irritated some customer, and in some cases; they have irritated their most loyal ones.
They are a very large and profitable company. Why? - wouldn't they just leave all of the galleries up?
Plus, now you need the latest OS to upgrade to iCloud. I might smarten up this time.
.mac ( fail ) >>> mobileMe ( fail ) >>> iCloud ( fail ? )
I coughed up $99x2 a year for my wife and myself for this. We had a great time uploading and sharing our photos. We did this for multiple years. Worked fine for us.
Now, my photos are no longer available. The smarter people that used the FREE services, their photos are available and will continue to be. Boy, do I feel stupid.
MobileMe is one of the lower points in Apple's history. They have irritated some customer, and in some cases; they have irritated their most loyal ones.
They are a very large and profitable company. Why? - wouldn't they just leave all of the galleries up?
Plus, now you need the latest OS to upgrade to iCloud. I might smarten up this time.
.mac ( fail ) >>> mobileMe ( fail ) >>> iCloud ( fail ? )
This I really don't understand. I'm not trying to invalidate your claim - just understand it.
For me iDisk was always ridiculously slow - even just to see the folder structure. Try to move a 2k text file in or out and you might as well go for a coffee. I never managed to get anything much bigger in there - maybe a handful of small images (actually just remembered I put a few mp3s of some of my own music up once - had to leave it running overnight - for more than one night, IIRC).
Dropbox, by comparison, is much much faster - and, because it syncs from local copies, doesn't interrupt your workflow because it all runs in the background (the only exception being when you're waiting for a file just synced from another location).
Fair enough, I suppose. This is a difference. I've only ever seen that as a reason to prefer Dropbox - but if you really do prefer it the other way then, yes, you've lost that (you could try Transmit with some cheap FTP hosting?).
I can't imagine how you'd get files into or out of iDisk fast enough that it could make any difference to your local storage - even for mobile devices. Perhaps it's faster if you live nearer to Apple's servers - or at least in the US (I'm in the UK)? Was it not slow as a dog for you?
Actually, for mobile devices, Dropbox doesn't cache the whole fileset locally either - so it's only an issue on the desktop. Since you can buy desktop HDDs 500 times bigger than you got by default with iDisk for about the yearly cost of MobileMe I can't see that being much of a reason. What am I missing?