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Apple to Continue Offering Support for Me.com Email After MobileMe Discontinuation
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While you may be 100% correct in saying that some people were just kind of stuck that way with original AppleID's then also subscribing to MobileMe, there are still thousands of people who think that they need a different AppleID for each device they own.
iTools > .mac > MobileMe > iCloud
I dont know if I'm coming or going anymore?! On top of that I have my AppleID which uses an email other than those above so I dont get all the features of MobileMe or iCloud. I then have to use an IMAP email account to keep everything in sync as iCloud wont do it on a non @me address and calendars, notes (especially - you need an @me address to sync these too) are a nightmare too.
Things sort of work, don't ask me how I did it, its such a mess and if anything goes wrong I dont have a clue where to start.
I still have to find an alternative webhost to move my website from my iDisk.
Apple, Let us merge all our accounts youve made us sign up for and use whatever email address we like.
I dont know if I'm coming or going anymore?! On top of that I have my AppleID which uses an email other than those above so I dont get all the features of MobileMe or iCloud. I then have to use an IMAP email account to keep everything in sync as iCloud wont do it on a non @me address and calendars, notes (especially - you need an @me address to sync these too) are a nightmare too.
Things sort of work, don't ask me how I did it, its such a mess and if anything goes wrong I dont have a clue where to start.
I still have to find an alternative webhost to move my website from my iDisk.
Apple, Let us merge all our accounts youve made us sign up for and use whatever email address we like.
I'm happy to know that aliases still work. I opened my .Mac account with a less-than-professional address...
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So far mine are working fine. I can't add new ones, but what I have is staying put.
.mac users
I just want to point out that we need to consider ourselves fortunate that apple is addressing this issue in any way. Apple has signed on so many new users in the last 5 years that those customers prior to that are really irrelevant
It's like somebody using a 512 connection. Nobody in the industry cares what kind of Internet experience they are having. Their revenue in the scheme of things is irrelevant.
Billions have been spent on infrastructure for the new experience. If you are not contributing to paying for that, you are irrelevant as well. My 20 somethings don't even use email any more.
Sorry.
I just want to point out that we need to consider ourselves fortunate that apple is addressing this issue in any way. Apple has signed on so many new users in the last 5 years that those customers prior to that are really irrelevant
It's like somebody using a 512 connection. Nobody in the industry cares what kind of Internet experience they are having. Their revenue in the scheme of things is irrelevant.
Billions have been spent on infrastructure for the new experience. If you are not contributing to paying for that, you are irrelevant as well. My 20 somethings don't even use email any more.
Sorry.
I've had the same Apple ID since iTools launch day; but when MobileMe launched (and we were given the @me.com email address as well) the amount of weird email I receive increased dramatically. Some addresses (like perhaps "nospam@me.com") are entered by a lot of people in web forms, and someone ends up receiving thousands of spam emails they wouldn't normally receive.
I still have the occasional problem when using my Apple ID, because technically I have two user names: my @mac.com one and my @me.com one. Sometimes my @mac.com one is the only one that works, yet once logged in it shows up as @me.com. Other times, it'll only met me use @me.com.
Caused problems with iTunes purchases on the App Store as it refused my password when using @me.com.
Not defending Apple here (AppleID has always been a mess) but a sort of work around is if iTunes Match is available in your area you can use iTunes Match on the AppleID with your App Store purchases to effectively put all your music on that ID (and strip the music of DRM).
Hmmm, may have been how your first accessed iCloud, because I used my old MobileMe/iTunes ID and it worked with no problem.
I have one "Apple" ID for them all. (Even same for the Apple Developer site.)
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones!
Oh I know how it happened.
I had an Apple ID for iTunes, App Store, Apple Online Store etc.
I bought MobileMe (which has now changed to iCloud) on a brand new ID.
It's only now that my MobileMe ID became iCloud that the fact I've got two IDs has bothered me.
Chatting with Apple, they sent me to this URL to set up my email client with the iCloud settings. Apparently they are NOT discontinuing the IMAP connectivity.
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html
This is good news for my first-generation MacBook Pro that cannot run Lion due to its 32-bit processor. Still sucks they restricted Lion to 64-bit processors only.
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html
This is good news for my first-generation MacBook Pro that cannot run Lion due to its 32-bit processor. Still sucks they restricted Lion to 64-bit processors only.
I can log in with either @mac or @me, but if I just type in the username and tab to the password field, Apple autocompletes with @me. I can't tell that there's a difference. But my Apple ID is the same as my original @mac email username. My aliases are just for the email side.
Confused?
Dear Reader:
From a "New" user to the MAC world and also to include my experience with Networking Tech for 15+ years! MAC admitted they caused some-what confusion up-on their recent release of "iCLOUD"
I believe I have this quote right "I know we have iCloud now, and u might be thinking (HEY those are the same guys who created MobileMe!) Steve jobs June 2010.
You see my point? its a bit confusing I 100% agree. But please don't let it be! iCloud is for all new account users simple!
MobileMe is and "Was" for all older users whom were approached to the "MAC" world before iCloud was created. Therefore, MAC is now asking the "Older" users to switch to iCloud. if not they are telling them to "Fine continue to use your "older" account just Verify it.
I hope this helps. Thanx for reading ya'll
Dear Reader:
From a "New" user to the MAC world and also to include my experience with Networking Tech for 15+ years! MAC admitted they caused some-what confusion up-on their recent release of "iCLOUD"
I believe I have this quote right "I know we have iCloud now, and u might be thinking (HEY those are the same guys who created MobileMe!) Steve jobs June 2010.
You see my point? its a bit confusing I 100% agree. But please don't let it be! iCloud is for all new account users simple!
MobileMe is and "Was" for all older users whom were approached to the "MAC" world before iCloud was created. Therefore, MAC is now asking the "Older" users to switch to iCloud. if not they are telling them to "Fine continue to use your "older" account just Verify it.
I hope this helps. Thanx for reading ya'll
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You can tell he's been in IT for 15 years with how he gets the company (Apple) and the trademark (Mac) mixed up, and spells it in all capital letters like it's a Media Access Control address.
You can tell he's been in IT for 15 years with how he gets the company (Apple) and the trademark (Mac) mixed up, and spells it in all capital letters like it's a Media Access Control address.
How do people who get married merge their Apple IDs? Is that completely impossible?
I wish I would have known that a lot sooner, before I moved to iCloud. The only things that I used MobileMe for was email and calendaring and it's just not feeling good on iClod. I understand that once you move to Iclod, you can't move back, so I guess I'm stuck on the 'cloud'...
Now if calendaring worked like it used to on MobileMe, I'd feel a whole lot better. Well, and if the email and web GUI worked faster and better respectively...
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I don't want to pay for my wife's stuff on iTunes... She can buy her own stuff.
Now if calendaring worked like it used to on MobileMe, I'd feel a whole lot better. Well, and if the email and web GUI worked faster and better respectively...
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I don't want to pay for my wife's stuff on iTunes... She can buy her own stuff.
What freaked me out was that when I got my 'new iPad' *cough*, I went to set it up. It asked for my 'Apple ID', which WAS my MobileMe address... I saw 'WAS' because it said that there was already an ID of that name, and I had to choose another one. So I did. It changed my 'Apple ID' to this new ID that I typed in, which happened to be my WORK email! So now, my Apple ID is my work email address, and my Apple ID is no longer my MobileMe/iClod address.
I had it all working properly until Apple screwed it up!
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Yeah... Do you combine everything when you get married? EVERYTHING?
Upon marriage, we had the ridiculous argument about having shared email accounts. My comments were 'AYFN' and TINFWIAGTSAEAWY'. It started a row that rocked our marriage to the core and I wouldn't give in.
AYFN = Are you freaking nuts.
TINFWIAGTSAEAWY - There is no freaking way I am going to share an email address with you
Thrown in my face was 'if you loved me', and 'what do you have to hide'. I fired back 'they are free' and 'then lets share underwear and toothbrushes'. It still took a few months until it was totally dropped. Surprisingly...
My point is that there are things to share, and things to not share...
Well, unless you are a control freak, and then good luck keeping that going...
I had it all working properly until Apple screwed it up!
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Yeah... Do you combine everything when you get married? EVERYTHING?
Upon marriage, we had the ridiculous argument about having shared email accounts. My comments were 'AYFN' and TINFWIAGTSAEAWY'. It started a row that rocked our marriage to the core and I wouldn't give in.
AYFN = Are you freaking nuts.
TINFWIAGTSAEAWY - There is no freaking way I am going to share an email address with you
Thrown in my face was 'if you loved me', and 'what do you have to hide'. I fired back 'they are free' and 'then lets share underwear and toothbrushes'. It still took a few months until it was totally dropped. Surprisingly...
My point is that there are things to share, and things to not share...
Well, unless you are a control freak, and then good luck keeping that going...
Well if you're AppleID WAS an @me.com email, then was it a MobileMe account? If so, then it was asking you to put it in for iCloud purposes, in which case your MobileMe email should have received several messages from Apple telling you to "move" your account to an iCloud account.
...Not sure if sharing email addresses was the real issue there, no offence.
How do they buy stuff then? or find out about it from the shop, or if it's in stock, or a problem with the order... delivery or the goods themself.
Heh and has to use a wacky font. I thought I was reading some ad or sticky widget.
I wish I would have known that a lot sooner, before I moved to iCloud. The only things that I used MobileMe for was email and calendaring and it's just not feeling good on iClod. I understand that once you move to Iclod, you can't move back, so I guess I'm stuck on the 'cloud'...
Now if calendaring worked like it used to on MobileMe, I'd feel a whole lot better. Well, and if the email and web GUI worked faster and better respectively..
I didn't know MobileMe syncing got busted when switching to iCloud. I really regret that. I done this when I was setting up Lion on release. Now I have to manually transfer stuff to keep both machines up to date.
iCloud really feels like a serious downgrade for me. I hardly ever touch it.
The benefit of sharing an Apple ID after marriage would include scenarios where people have individually built up their personal catalogs of music and apps and want to share the music, etc. with one another.
Imagine if you had a single iPod for the car or shared device for the gym and you wanted to use your spouses' music. You'd have to wipe the device each time or repurchase the content.
Imagine if you had a single iPod for the car or shared device for the gym and you wanted to use your spouses' music. You'd have to wipe the device each time or repurchase the content.
I have the ever so narcissistic sounding @me, probably dreamed up by Jobs. It came with MobileMe, but there's no way I'd never use it.
An @icloud.com option is too logical, it makes too much sense, and things like creating this are just too hard to accomplish LOL
Everytime an email was sent via an iCloud.com it would make the recipient think of iCloud & Apple. Seems like a decent marketing play for Apple, but then again perhaps they just don't care...
That's not true. With Home Sharing, you can easily add your spouses music to your device. Even the old DRM music and apps. You don't have to share Apple IDs anymore. It's not a very good idea to do that anymore because Apple now provides better options.
I need to play around with Home Sharing more then. I was thinking of how it used to work and that was the only scenario I could think of that would make me want to merge apple ID's.
A few days ago when I synced my iPod to my desktop I couldn't sync it to my macbook without it considering them two separate libraries...and that was with one iTunes account. I resorted to a cumbersome method that has all of my media on the desktop and my macbook syncing to the shared folders on startup. I'll have to revisit my setup based on this information you've given me. Thanks.
A few days ago when I synced my iPod to my desktop I couldn't sync it to my macbook without it considering them two separate libraries...and that was with one iTunes account. I resorted to a cumbersome method that has all of my media on the desktop and my macbook syncing to the shared folders on startup. I'll have to revisit my setup based on this information you've given me. Thanks.
