MobileMe to 'Castle' (iCloud?) Upgrade in Mac OS X Lion

[KnightWRX]

Wait, I thought the "Castle in the Sky" saying had a negative connotation ?

A phrase or colloquialism which is a reference to the full metaphor "[He/She] has built castles in the sky but lives in squalor on the ground." This is usually intended to be a criticism of any person who has a rich imagination but does not benefit from it in any measurable or practical way. As an example: A "starving artist". It is to say that a person's reality is quite different from their imagined life.

People think it's a nice name for a service ?

 

[zerocustom1989]

(Movie Spoiler):


As big a fan of the film, and Miyazaki, as I am, I'm not sure the end of the film would make for a good analogy!! 'Store your data with Apple: watch it crumble into the sea or float off into space!'

Lol yea... but maybe that's how all this digital crap is gonna end up anyway!

Nice avatar btw.

 

[ziggyonice]

The geek in me made me do it.

 

[sinsin07]

This instantly made me think of Laputa: Castle in the sky as well as the Laputa in gulliver's travels.

I think apple should go for this over iCloud. It's a brilliant idea to brand a cloud related service as a castle. It just fits. They can even claim that it's "magic as a castle in the sky"

It's corny.

 

[zedsdead]

Image

The geek in me made me do it.

Awesome! One of the greatest games EVER made.

 

[gramirez2012]

"Castle"? Can't come up with a lamer name than that.

 

[Flaxxx]

Hopefully MobileMe will be gone. It is a terrible name.
Anything but MobileMe please. Makes no sense at all.

iBanana would sound better, even.

 

[zerocustom1989]

It's corny.

Doesnt stop apple's marketing from calling the iPad magical.

 

[emvath]

Thank you Mario!

But our princess is in another castle

 

[Full of Win]

The problem with .Me is all in your mind. No one really cares what the extension is, it just a means to an end. Short suffixes are must easier, whatever they are.

I just don't agree. Whatever they are ? So it it was short like @sex.com or @s__t.com (fill in the underscore yourself), would they care then? I think they would. To me its all about image. Short is nice, but it should be NEUTRAL. The word 'me' does not fit the neutral part, just like 'sex' or 's__t' does not. Of course this is just opinion.

 

[ghostlyorb]

So now every time someone uses the word, Castle, Apple files a law suit

 

[dethmaShine]

So now every time someone uses the word, Castle, Apple files a law suit

More trolling on this forum. Go! Go!

 

[sinsin07]

I just don't agree. Whatever they are ? So it it was short like @sex.com or @s__t.com (fill in the underscore yourself), would they care then? I think they would. To me its all about image. Short is nice, but it should be NEUTRAL. The word 'me' does not fit the neutral part, just like 'sex' or 's__t' does not. Of course this is just opinion.

Let me clairfy, I should of realized the Full OF Win would go to extremes. Anything that in public context is not offense or profane, which .Me is does not fall into. You get hung up a too much minor s__t. Fill in the blank.

 

[caspersoong]

Castle doesn't sound so Apple-ish in my opinion. Odd code name.

 

[InsightsIE]

Hmm.. 3G and GPS in our MacBooks. Finally MOFOS! For those wondering my iPhone has a unlimited data plan but what I can do is put a Prepaid Sim card in my "supposed" MacBook Pro and if it gets stolen remotely top it up Via internet then eventually the sim card will connect and get online. For those wondering Ireland 90% of the population is like on Pay go.

 

[easy4lif]

iTools

.Mac

MobileMe

iCloud


coming with mac os x Sabertooth tiger

iRipoff

 

[Full of Win]

Let me clairfy, I should of realized the Full OF Win would go to extremes. Anything that in public context is not offense or profane, which .Me is does not fall into. You get hung up a too much minor s__t. Fill in the blank.

No, but I think the word 'me' does have negative connotations such as narcissism and self centeredness. That is my beef with it. The last word I want someone to associate with my name is 'me'.

 

[8CoreWhore]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky

The criticism of the Cloud, is the user is yielding control to someone else.

But to sell it as, "be the king of your castle" in the cloud, suggest more user control, and security.

 

[42streetsdown]

i like castle better than icloud. it's probably just a code name though

 

[FloatingBones]

Consomac.fr went digging in the latest Mac OS X Lion build to see what they could find [...]

Aren't these guys in violation of their developer agreement?

 

[kevinspellman]

Castle on a cloud

Castle on a cloud

hehehehe

 

[sinsin07]

No, but I think the word 'me' does have negative connotations such as narcissism and self centeredness. That is my beef with it. The last word I want someone to associate with my name is 'me'.

The key area of your problem is highlighted in red.

 

[andylane]

Is iCloud really $4.5 million better than MobileMe?

 

[Dimwhit]

Is iCloud really $4.5 million better than MobileMe?

For a company that profited several billion? Yeah, probably.

 

[Cougarcat]

Castle doesn't sound so Apple-ish in my opinion. Odd code name.

Haha, you think that's an odd codename?

Once Apple used "Carl Sagan" as a codename, for the Power Mac 7100.

Carl Sagan sued, so they changed it to BHA (Butt Head Astronomer.)

Apple's lawyer's were uncomfortable with that, so they changed it to LAW. (Lawyers are Wimps.)