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Apple to Offer Free Tier of iCloud Without Music Streaming? 'Aggressive' Pricing for Mac OS X Lion?
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When was that last conversion? 2 years ago?
If apple learned from it then why is my email still slow, emails come sometimes with minutes, sometimes with hours delay. Why can't I still send out emails with one of my aliases? Why is calendar sync still a kind of lottery? Why is iDisk the slowest service on the planet?
I bought the Gaga album (hey, for .99 I can give it to my daughter) to try out the Amazon Cloud Player.
What garbage. Obtuse sign-up/installation, failure to download half of the songs on the cd, worthless, irrelevant help system.
I actually had hopes it would be usable. Sad from a company that supposedly knows how to do an online store.
Free tier to me says 'syncing of contacts and calendars, and Find my iPhone/Mac', and that's it, which is probably enough for most users.
Music streaming will definitely be in the pay-for tier. I also can't see iDisk moving down to the free tier either (Apple have the balls to charge $99 for MobileMe in its current state, after all).
Suppose we'll find out for sure on Monday
Music streaming will definitely be in the pay-for tier. I also can't see iDisk moving down to the free tier either (Apple have the balls to charge $99 for MobileMe in its current state, after all).
Suppose we'll find out for sure on Monday
Why is everyone freaking out about the damned domain name?
@me.com addresses will stay exactly the same if you want. Its a damned MX record for chrissakes.
Your precious email address is NOT CHANGING!!!
the added it in iOS4 (iOS3 had workarounds). however that does not mean it works for my account. it doesn't.
um, because iCloud is a completely different service, architecture, product from MobileMe?
That's kinda the point.
I worry about Apple's ability to pull this off. They don't seem to have syncing as a concept nailed, cloud or not. Just look at what a mess iTunes->iPhone is. Get a new computer - sync iPhone - will your apps still have data and settings in them, or will they be blanked out? Impossible to predict.
I finally decided to update to 4.3.3 and it tells me I have purchases that haven't been synced. I do the "Transfer Purchases" thing and it transfers an album I bought 2 years ago, and now I have the album twice on my iTunes. What?!
I think spending millions on a all new Data Center sort of shows they want to make it better. I would bet, you'll see a vast improvement over the older MobileMe services. Apple tends to learn from the past.
It was added before ios4 because i didn't have to do any workarounds on my 3gs i had last year before iphone 4 even came out.
correction nevermind i remember now it was from 4.0 beta my bad.
Wasn't it just.
How I laughed when all of my contacts and calendar entries just disappeared without warning.
LOL! What are you talking about? You only pay for major upgrades... just like Windows.... but if $29 is too steep for you, then I guess it's a good things you went somewhere else.
Do you really think anyone here really believes you?
What are the chances we would see Apple create an Android app to appeal to those users that don't have an iPhone. I think it would be smart not to shut out the millions of people that have an Android powered phone. I for one would love to see an Apple created interface on my Droid.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
Currently many free cloud services limit you to 20 gb or less. I have well over that in images alone. Actually, between my various documents and media, I have about 1.5 tb of data. I think that the rumored approach by Apple (keeping a single copy of a movie or album on their servers and allowing multiple users to stream it) is the only current viable option. Media either needs to be much more compressed, or there needs to be less of it.
Currently many free cloud services limit you to 20 gb or less. I have well over that in images alone. Actually, between my various documents and media, I have about 1.5 tb of data. I think that the rumored approach by Apple (keeping a single copy of a movie or album on their servers and allowing multiple users to stream it) is the only current viable option. Media either needs to be much more compressed, or there needs to be less of it.
Interesting - so the new Mac OS will be "aggressively priced" and yet Apple now forces people who purchase a new Mac to upgrade to (their competitor's) Windows 7 O/S in order to keep using Bootcamp (something which is certainly not widely publicised) - so that's maybe $29 for Lion ... PLUS whatever Microsoft charge for Windows 7
I wouldn't at all be surprised if Lion was released at a low price point, given that Aperture, Final Cut, iLife, and iWork have all received massive price cuts.
It's all strategic. Apple's profits come from hardware, so selling their software cheap doesn't really affect the bottom line, and helps to lock people into their ecosystem.
It's all strategic. Apple's profits come from hardware, so selling their software cheap doesn't really affect the bottom line, and helps to lock people into their ecosystem.
