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MobileMe Revamp Set for April Launch? Existing Support to Continue for One Year?

ozred said:
I often wonder where fanboys directed their fear, insecurities and anger before they had Android to bash.
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This was always Windows & PCs for the longest time... where were you for the past 20 something years?

I also do not use the @me address, for more or less the same reasons. I always hate it when applications / OSs start referring to items as "My ___" as if you're a guest sitting down to the computer to only borrow a little bit of space & resources from some unspecified administrator...
 
TimUSCA said:
Why does anyone need iDisk when Dropbox is free?
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I only used Drop Box to sync files between my devices. iDisk on the other hand allows me publicly share files to non-drop box users on any platform. And also allows me to password protect, so only the intended party can download.

Only stinker is it uses the same disk space as your web hosting, so you have to watch how much you are sharing at once.
 
pubwvj said:
Beware that what is stored in the cloud is not protected by the usual Constitutional protections against government search, seizure, privacy, etc. Be prepared for warrant-less invasion of your privacy. Don't store anything on there you want private. No credit card info, no legal documents, nada.
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Gnu Privacy Guard should solve that.
 
I hope it doesn't effect any of my iWeb sites I have going. With iWeb not being included in iLife anymore and now this I'm a little worried.
 
MobileMe is in need of a revamp. I'm backing up some of my documents to my iDisk as I type this. A group of documents about 50 MB in size will take approximately 45 minutes to upload - utterly ridiculous. Mail needs work too. Its spam filter is preventing legitimate emails from getting to my email address at all, and there is no way to add addresses to a white-list.
 
This stinks. Apple needs to keep their products priced at a premium level to help distinguish us the userbase as the most special and elite in society. At this rate I'm going to have to start using Sony products. :eek: Sony's most gorgeous high-end laptops already cost more than MacBooks. WTF happened to Apple being for the elite? :rolleyes:
 
They just charged me for the renew 99$. If they don't refund me, I sue them ...
 
santaliqueur said:
Stop thinking your information is so important. It's not. Governments only want our money. That's it.

Also, where are you getting the information about the Constitution? Is there an exemption clause in the Constitution about cloud storage? I missed that part.

Additionally, you should encrypt anything stored remotely. I have several terabytes of data on Backblaze, all useless without my encryption key. Is this really hard to figure out, or are you just trolling?
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You both are right.

Yes information should be encrypted when stored remotely as I do. However, to think the average person knows how pick a secure password let alone encrypt a file is putting a little too much faith in people.
 
So I am curious, I just got an Airport Extreme and I am working on getting internet access to my attached hard drive. I don't want to pay $99 to do this through MobileMe (and I think I have found a solution too).

It seems like there is a good chance that Apple is going to setup something simple like Subsonic, where all your files are stored on you home machine and you access them over the net through Apple's possible free MobileMe service.

If so, I should wait if I end up deciding to buy into the $99 MobileMe service then, right?

I could try it for 2 months, which would be in the realm of the next Apple event, so I could use it for free and if they don't change the price or make it free, I can just cancel the account.

Hmm.
 
My Hopes

With the huge data-center here in NC, that we don't really hear much about. Here is what I am hoping for:

1. File sharing across all my iDevices.
2. Cloud Backups. I am looking at carbonite, but would be nice if it was included with my mobile me. I will never trust the cloud for my sensitive information, but for backing up everything else with access from anywhere - sure would beat having to sync my devices through itunes before I head out of the house. 200gb should be enough for what I would want on the cloud.
3. PLease do not kill the iweb hosting. My website is hosted on MobileMe.
4. Larger storage than just the 20gb they offer now.
5. Email, Calendar, address book already works well and syncs perfectly for me - so not much can improve there.

they said the tablet is the POST-PC. So in the next 5 to 10 years I think we will be seeing more and more mobile devices with cloud access and storage. Your local PC/Laptop and hard drives will eventually go the way of the 8-track or floppy. Of course we need to do something about these dang cell phone carriers and their data caps. Yeah it is a cash cow that they love, but it will become too expensive for the average person to use a computer if we eventually get to all cloud only (decades for that to happen).

Also worry about cloud backup. I heard a man call into Clark Howard. One online backup company lost all his data. They were apologetic, but bottom line was "you do not connect and backup every day? tough for you. We reserve the right to delete old data, especially if we deem your account to appear in-active."

Buried in their terms of service:

Also, you specifically agree that [xxxx] has no obligation to provide you or anyone else with a copy of your backup data and may automatically purge your backup data from [xxxx] systems.

*For liability sake, I took out the name of the company.
 
aurichie said:
This stinks. Apple needs to keep their products priced at a premium level to help distinguish us the userbase as the most special and elite in society. At this rate I'm going to have to start using Sony products. :eek: Sony's most gorgeous high-end laptops already cost more than MacBooks. WTF happened to Apple being for the elite? :rolleyes:
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It's called marketing. Make your products and service for the masses will make you more money than selling high-end products to the elite. Take Ford for example:

Aston-Martin - Only elites can afford, not many sold.
Lincoln - More affordable but still offers luxuary. again, not for the masses.
Mazda - For those who believe Japanese cars offer more reliability
Mercury - For those who do not want the stigma of buying a Ford.
Ford - For a long time this brand had a reputation of being unreliable. Only the muscle cars were sought after. but mostly the Ford brand was for lower-middle class who could only afford basic transportation.

Now (discounting for neighborhood demographics) which do you see more of going down the road? Mazda on down - the one that the masses can afford.

this is why Microsoft does not make hardware and licenses the OS, so people can feel better about owning a Dell, HP, etc. Apple on the other hand… It is them or go the illegal hackintosh route. So now that Apple is becoming more well known and accepted - rake in the money with appealing to the masses; especially since Linux is more for corporate servers, and MS seems to really lost direction and is grasping at straws to try to stay relevant.

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I say MS should do what they do best and go that route. Office suites and productivity software like Visio, Project, etc. And make it available on any platform. Same with the corporate MS exchange. Offer the products on any platform and they will make more money. They may lose in the OS area, but that lost will be compensated with the gains in the other software sales.
 
so... Is MobileMe going to be free for everyone or only for people who get new Mac hardwares? It better be free for everyone or this is just going to piss everyone.:confused::mad:
 
basesloaded190 said:
I have nothing the government would want. They can go through all my stuff for all i care.
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This is perhaps the most dangerous attitude we can have. The more people who feel like this, the easier it is to label those who are concerned about privacy as kooks or nuts. It seems that with each new generation, more and more people have the belief that concerns about privacy are expressed only by those with something to hide.

20 years ago when a small segment of our population complained about the social security number being used as ID, they were often labeled as conspiracy nuts. Now SSN-related identity theft is rampant.

There need be nothing intrinsically valuable or secret in the things we want to keep private. The fact that its our business should be enough.
 
shervieux said:
I only used Drop Box to sync files between my devices. iDisk on the other hand allows me publicly share files to non-drop box users on any platform.
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DropBox lets you do the same thing via Public folder. And it's got way better cross-platform support, unlike iDisk which only natively runs on Apple devices.
 
I don't care if it's paid or free, but I do care that they improve it and I can keep the @mac.com email, I do not like the me.com, sounds selfish and geeky.

In the years I've had the mac email, I have not shared it with friends as I find it slow and somehow clumsy. ;)

The web space and syncing with other apps is pretty good, but better is even ...better.
 
I doubt Apple would let people upload music that they purchased at Best Buy or Walmart to their servers for free. I think it will just be access to music you purchased on iTunes. They already have it on their servers and let you stream 1:30 of it already. If you purchase music on iTunes, then you can stream anywhere on any iDevice. I think that would be plausible.

I am among the people who just renewed mobileme recently. I would imagine Apple will offer a free version of mobileme, and then a premium version. All the current subscribers would get carried into the premium. The premium would probably include extra storage space, the web-hosting, and other features. While the free version is just email, ical, location software.

My 2 cents.
 
WillisWasabi said:
I do agree with your sentiment, but I think your examples are not the best choice. I'd say don't store anything you'd feel you could be incriminated with in a warrantless search. I'd use examples like music and movies you didn't purchase.

Many legal documents are public information anyhow. As far as credit cards go you'd want them encrypted anywhere you store them electronically. Any private legal documents should be encrypted as well.

You might want an encryption method with plausible deniability, like TrueCrypt. Fill the "I was compelled to provide this password" side with (legal) porn.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA! Us Canadians are all laughing at you XD its legal here to torrent 60 GB of music free and i have something like 150GB of movies all in 720p (because 1080 takes too much space). its only bad for you. Americans constantly think they're the center of the universe when there are dozens of other countries using the same products. Wake up. If the FBI wants to go through my library and listen to some Metallica or watch iron man 2 then be my guest i couldn't care less. I'm not in their country. Your constitution doesn't apply here.
 
doberman211 said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Us Canadians are all laughing at you XD its legal here to torrent 60 GB of music free and i have something like 150GB of movies all in 720p (because 1080 takes too much space). its only bad for you. Americans constantly think they're the center of the universe when there are dozens of other countries using the same products. Wake up. If the FBI wants to go through my library and listen to some Metallica or watch iron man 2 then be my guest i couldn't care less. I'm not in their country. Your constitution doesn't apply here.
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Don't you live in North America? Wouldn't that make you American? ;)

Anyway, your generalization makes you just as obnoxious as the "Americans" you refer to. Also, if your ***** is on our servers, then yes, our laws do apply to it.
 
Well the key word in the discussion of storing music on the "cloud" is "allow". I'm not interested in uploading my music to a server but I can understand the desire by some. I just don't want Apple going down a path of development that morphs itunes and mobile me into something I don't recognize that requires me to use the cloud.
 
I hope I can keep my mac.com email address too. And I hope there aren't any advertisements. I'd still happily pay too.
 
No, it still doesn't. And on topic, this could mean that the iPhone nano isn't dead maybe? With no need for a flash drive i'd welcome a smaller phone, they'd need to have an edge to edge screen but i'm fine with that.

And fyi, because the continent is called north america and if saying this makes me an american then you're basically saying Brazil is america too. and the rest of this side of the planet. and from a third person view the US economy is pretty much going to become equal to mexico now in 20 years. just saying. no world domination for you.
 
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