I agree. iWeb and iPhoto & iMovie gallery were super useful for me. iDisk was handy too. After all these years of paying good money to rely on dotmac and then MobileMe, this really pisses me off. Stupid move Apple. Fix this quick - so far iCloud is a mockery of what MobileMe was.
Apple Shuts Down MobileMe, Data Available for 'Limited Time'
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I agree. iWeb and iPhoto & iMovie gallery were super useful for me. iDisk was handy too. After all these years of paying good money to rely on dotmac and then MobileMe, this really pisses me off. Stupid move Apple. Fix this quick - so far iCloud is a mockery of what MobileMe was.
AidenShaw
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Exactly why Apple computers fail in the enterprise - Microsoft feels "bound to" give customers roadmaps and dates.
The NTVDM (the 16-bit DOS subsystem for NT) was a transitional environment - to let people run their 16-bit and Windows 3.1 applications on NT (and Win2K and XP and Vista* and Win7*). That's 20 years of supporting a "transitional" environment.
I am not saying that Apple should have supported QuickTransit (AKA "Rosetta") forever, but simply that Apple should have made a clear statement as to when QuickTransit would be removed.
Microsoft makes those statements (644 days left for XP support).
* For x64 versions of Vista and Win7, native NTVDM support is not provided. Customers with 16-bit applications can choose either the x86 versions of Vista/Win7, or to run their 16-bit apps within "XP Mode" on the x64 versions.
The MobileMe fiasco is finally over.
Certainly not Apple's finest hour. From the beginning, the whole thing was a mess. From .mac to .me to iCloud, it was all handled in a very amateurish fashion. I'm still a fan of Apple, but the Apple brand has definitely lost the cachet it once had with me. For me, the Apple brand promise was a set of expectations like "it'll work", "we make it easy" and "we'll take care of you, because you're in the club." Not when it comes to MobileMe. And it's especially disheartening because most of us MobileMe users were the most loyal early adopters you can get. We stuck with Apple, even though they botched the transitions and generally treated us like crap. A lot of us now have messed up Apple IDs because the crack engineering team can't seem to figure out a single-sign-in solution for us. With the boatload of cash Apple has on hand, couldn't they have put together a transition strategy or even suggest a viable process. That's the way I dumped Cindy Evans in high school, but it's not the way a loyal and valuable customer should be treated. Apple says "it was fun while it lasted. Now gather up your stuff, give me your key, and get out by July 1st." And when we ask "what will we do and where will we go?" we get their best Rhett Butler imitation. Okay, I moved on. I know it's a business, after all, and not a fraternity. But I'll remember this. I will. And so will thousands of MobileMe refugees just like me. June 30, 2012 was the day Apple started taking us for granted, and Steve rolled over in his grave.
Certainly not Apple's finest hour. From the beginning, the whole thing was a mess. From .mac to .me to iCloud, it was all handled in a very amateurish fashion. I'm still a fan of Apple, but the Apple brand has definitely lost the cachet it once had with me. For me, the Apple brand promise was a set of expectations like "it'll work", "we make it easy" and "we'll take care of you, because you're in the club." Not when it comes to MobileMe. And it's especially disheartening because most of us MobileMe users were the most loyal early adopters you can get. We stuck with Apple, even though they botched the transitions and generally treated us like crap. A lot of us now have messed up Apple IDs because the crack engineering team can't seem to figure out a single-sign-in solution for us. With the boatload of cash Apple has on hand, couldn't they have put together a transition strategy or even suggest a viable process. That's the way I dumped Cindy Evans in high school, but it's not the way a loyal and valuable customer should be treated. Apple says "it was fun while it lasted. Now gather up your stuff, give me your key, and get out by July 1st." And when we ask "what will we do and where will we go?" we get their best Rhett Butler imitation. Okay, I moved on. I know it's a business, after all, and not a fraternity. But I'll remember this. I will. And so will thousands of MobileMe refugees just like me. June 30, 2012 was the day Apple started taking us for granted, and Steve rolled over in his grave.
akbarali.ch
macrumors 6502a
thefourthpope
macrumors 65816
I agree. And I'm disappointed. That's why I wish they would add that functionality.
thefourthpope
macrumors 65816
I use Dropbox as well, but had iDisk from the start. There were always limitations, the key one being how long syncing of iDisk would take. But on the whole, I preferred iDisk because it worked more seamlessly with the apple devices I own. Some of the apps that I use most frequently don't play with Dropbox (I can't find / don't know how to set up a free WebDAV option) but did work perfectly with iDisk.
These boards are always peppered with people praising the apple ecosystem, and rightfully so. iDisk was, for me, an important part of that ecosystem for easy file sharing across devices. It was purely ease-of-use in that setting, so I didn't have to close out of an app, open dropbox, find the file, tap "open in ______" and wait for the file to load. With iDisk gone, my options for in-app file sharing are more limited.
thefourthpope
macrumors 65816
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
iCloud has been great for me except for docs in the cloud. At this moment, the system for sharing or working with a shared document on the desktop is
unacceptable: log into iCloud.com and upload/download? With iDisk, it was as easy as working with a local file.
On my idevices, I have problems of documents constantly needing to reload. If I've turned my iPad off in between opening keynote, for example, all of the presentations need to reload, which requires a) Internet and b) time. And I can't tap them to say "stop those other 10 and focus on the one I care about!" Happens in Pages too, with the stupid little white-on-black upload arrow in the thumbnail corner, and the interminable blue progress bar. Hardly seamless. Hardly consistent. Hardly useful for someone on the go.
iDisk kept local storage on idevices, too, so frequently used files were always available, Internet or no.
YES, I agree this is a total crap move by Apple. I to have spent a large amount of time creating specific EVENTS for all my photos. In no way did I think they were going to strip out all the photos that I had uploaded to MobileMe from my individually created events and dump them into a new event. I was expecting them to create ALBUMS, which would just be a new link to the original, which would have been the right thing to do because you could still use that ALBUM to recreate the MobileMe Gallery. There was NO NEED to modify my EVENTS.
I don't know if I should load my TimeMachine backup of my iPhoto album to undo this change, the problem being they almost force you to do this process unless you click Learn More instead of OK (how long will you have to put up with this) or if I should take the time to go through all 400+ pictures and put them back in their correct EVENTS.
In my opinion, this was a total boneheaded move by Apple!
Lost my web site
Just found out MobileMe has been scrapped by Apple.
I know you people will say I had a year to learn about this but I don't read mac sites all the time & never received any notification about it in my emails so I was not privy to this info.
I checked the web site only to find it was gone & it seems that I am 1 week too la te do get the stuff from it.
Thankyou Apple for making me loose my travel website which had my blog which was a week by week account of me & my partners 2 year trip around Australia, plus of course over a thousand photos.
I hope my partner & I have a good memory as it seems it is all we have left of it.
Thankyou again Apple...And I always thought Microsoft were the bastards
Just found out MobileMe has been scrapped by Apple.
I know you people will say I had a year to learn about this but I don't read mac sites all the time & never received any notification about it in my emails so I was not privy to this info.
I checked the web site only to find it was gone & it seems that I am 1 week too la te do get the stuff from it.
Thankyou Apple for making me loose my travel website which had my blog which was a week by week account of me & my partners 2 year trip around Australia, plus of course over a thousand photos.
I hope my partner & I have a good memory as it seems it is all we have left of it.
Thankyou again Apple...And I always thought Microsoft were the bastards
I suggest that you call Apple and plead your case. Their official support for MobileMe web sites ended last week and they aren't going to reverse that, but perhaps they can do something for you individually. Complaining to us other users may let you express your frustration, but only Apple can do something about it.
You can also submit feedback to Apple.
Thanks For The "Valuable" Input...
Given that Apple released an update to iPhoto today with the following description:
What's New in Version 9.3.1
Addresses a problem during the migration of albums from MobileMe Gallery that may cause photos to be moved from their original events into a new event called "From MobileMe"
Maybe you should "put your brain into gear before clicking your mouse button" to submit your input...
Given that Apple released an update to iPhoto today with the following description:
What's New in Version 9.3.1
Addresses a problem during the migration of albums from MobileMe Gallery that may cause photos to be moved from their original events into a new event called "From MobileMe"
Maybe you should "put your brain into gear before clicking your mouse button" to submit your input...